Ending the Cycle of Blood

In reading about the persistence of clan feuding on Mindinao, we got to thinking about how governments can best end such cycles of revenge. Our natural assumption is that these feuds exist where organized justice is in short supply, and so familial units take over the role of punishing offenders. But a University of Maryland offers a different take here:

Extracting revenge by killing people and engaging in a blood feud is not, as one might be tempted to think, just a way to extract justice...