MOSCOW In Russia, 2010 ended with an unprecedented upsurge of ultra nationalist violence. Images of rioting, fascist minded thugs have dominated TV broadcasts.

Let us walk honestly, as in the day not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

Let us walk honestly, as in the day not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

Now, when the TED people first approached me about giving this upbeat talk that was before the cartoon of Muhammad had triggered global rioting.

It's about non lethal technologies, because if you fire real ammo into a crowd of women and children rioting you're going to lose friends very quickly.

Both men were faced with a serious breakdown of law and order in their respective domains, involving violence and rioting against Muslims. But Patel s conduct during the violence that accompanied Partition stands in stark contrast to Modi s behavior in office.

Fortunately, organized Muslim leaders so far have not aggravated the rioting. Of course, the government s reduction of community policing in favor of paramilitary forces stationed in quasi military barracks, and the Minister of Interior s description of the young rioters as scum who should be washed away with an industrial power hose, has not helped.

The two most recent episodes the rioting and arson in French cities last autumn and the successful student campaign earlier this year against a new law governing young labor market entrants seem to have little in common. But their unifying thread is youth, unemployment, and uncertainty about the future, as well as the suffocating state paternalism that underlies the wider malaise itself.

Some anti Japanese demonstrations which featured rioting, looting, and the destruction of Japanese businesses mutated into anti government protests. By allowing social tensions to mount to such a degree, the Chinese government may also be partly responsible for the recent rampage among thousands of workers at the Foxconn plant (where components for Apple iPods and iPads are made) in Taiyuan.