In order to achieve a broad debate and to establish the current status of studies on violence in Spain between 1936 coup, war and postwar periods in comparative perspective, there will be a session devoted to the presentation of papers. These may deal with violence in Spain in all its variants (murders, political cleanings,
concentrationary and prison systems, political repression) and analytical perspectives (definitions, cultural dimensions, justifcations, enemy images, comparative dimension, ecc.), taking as chronological limits the coup of 1936 and the end of Francoist martial law in 1948.