Can International Relations (IR) be studied without reproducing its violence? This is the central question of this article. To investigate this, the first step is to expose the violence that we argue remains at the heart of our discipline. The article thus begins by exploring the disciplinary practices firmly grounded in relations of coloniality that plague disciplines more broadly and IR in particular. An analysis of IR’s epistemic violence is followed by an autoethnographic exploration of IR’s violent practices, specifically the violent practices in which one of the article’s authors knowingly and unknowingly engaged in as part of an impact-related trip to the international compound of Mogadishu International Airport in Somalia. Here the article lays bare how increasing demands on IR scholars to become ‘international experts’ having impact on the policy world is pushing them more and more into spaces governed by colonial violence they are unable to escape. The final section of this article puts forward a tentative path toward a less violent IR that advocates almost insignificant acts of subversion in our disciplinary approach and practices aimed at exposing and challenging this epistemic and structural violence. The article concludes that IR does not need to be abandoned, but rather, by taking on a position of discomfort, needs to acknowledge its violence and attempt to mitigate it – one almost insignificant step at a time.

是否可以在不再现其暴力的情况下研究国际关系（IR）？这是本文的核心问题。为了对此进行调查，第一步是揭露我们认为仍然是我们学科核心的暴力。因此，本文首先探讨了牢固地建立在殖民关系上的纪律做法，这种关系在更广泛的范围内困扰着学科，尤其是IR。在对IR的认知暴力进行分析之后，是对IR的暴力行为进行的人种志自发探索，特别是本文作者之一在有意无意地参与了摩加迪沙国际机场国际大院的撞击相关旅行的一部分中所涉及的暴力行为索马里。在此，本文揭示了对IR学者日益成为成为对政策界具有影响力的“国际专家”的要求如何将他们越来越多地推向他们无法逃脱的殖民暴力统治的空间。本文的最后一部分提出了一条走向较少暴力的IR的暂定道路，该IR在我们旨在揭露和挑战这种认知和结构性暴力的学科方法和实践中主张几乎微不足道的颠覆行为。文章得出的结论是，IR不必被抛弃，相反，通过采取一种不舒服的姿势，需要承认它的暴力并试图减轻它-一次几乎微不足道的步骤。本文的最后一部分提出了一条走向较少暴力的IR的暂定道路，该IR在我们旨在揭露和挑战这种认知和结构性暴力的学科方法和实践中主张几乎微不足道的颠覆行为。文章得出的结论是，IR不必被抛弃，相反，通过采取一种不舒服的姿势，需要承认它的暴力并试图减轻它-一次几乎微不足道的步骤。本文的最后一部分提出了一条走向较少暴力的IR的暂定道路，该IR在我们旨在揭露和挑战这种认知和结构性暴力的学科方法和实践中主张几乎微不足道的颠覆行为。文章得出的结论是，IR不必被抛弃，相反，通过采取一种不舒服的姿势，需要承认它的暴力并试图减轻它-一次几乎微不足道的步骤。