Killing As Structural Violence

In Violence (1998), C.A.J. Coady introduces the concept of violence as one that has been marked with confusion due to “lack of clarity about its meaning and about the moral status it should have in our development of public policy” (p. 1). He argues that it would be preferable to adopt a “restricted” definition of violence. To support this, he considers two popular views about violence and claims that both: 1. Have counterintuitive consequences and/or do not reflect ordinary language usage, and 2

person has some contact with violence, whether they are the victim, the perpetrator, an observer, or a combination of these roles. The culture of a certain group of people emphasizes and explains these violent actions in different ways. It can be described from an anthropological perspective as well, but it sometimes varies from the explanations given within a specific culture. Through a series of interviews with university students, I found that their explanations of violence were actually quite similar

tried to conceptualize the idea of violence and what it means, physical force such as: assault, bullying, abuse, rape, murder, war, terrorism, genocide amongst many more came to mind. However, what is considered violence depends on the social context and the type of violence described, because as we have learned in class so far, “Violence is Relative.” So what really is violence? There is not an easy explanation of the term without taking into consideration that violence can not only be physical but also

Kamri Coffee Week 4 2/15/16 Hegemony Hegemony is when a group or a person has more perceived authority than “regular everyday people”, and they impose their worldviews on others. This in turn, makes people believe that the particular of this person’s worldview are correct. An example of this is the NAFTA trade policies that benefited the U.S., while decimating the Mexican corn industry and the jobs provided (pg. 25). Holmes, argues that the migration of farmworkers is anything but voluntary. But

Critique of the Galtung’s concept of structural violence: Violence is a concept which can be felt more aptly than defined. The word ‘violence’ rightly mentions the causation of injury or harm.It is an umbrella term that incorporates a broad range of violence.Different political analysts and psychologists have defined violence in their own institutionalized way. Violence is the opposite of Peace as peace is defined as “absence of violence”. Here violence becomes a broad concept and demands to be distinguished

With a prompt to reflect on myself and how I feel about violence in all its forms, I find that it is easy to focus on the negative aspects of my behavioral tendencies. I am often quick to judge and I tend to react to stimulus without fully considering the input or the alternative viewpoints possible prior to execution of my response. In being quick to judge, I am often “judging a book by its cover” when I encounter new people or situations and I find that I am constantly surprised at how incorrect

Violence is a concept which can be felt more aptly than defined. The word ‘violence’ rightly mentions the causation of injury or harm.It is an umbrella term that incorporates a broad range of violence.Different political analysts and psychologists have defined violence in their own institutionalized way. Violence is the opposite of Peace as peace is defined as “absence of violence”. Here violence becomes a broad concept and demands to be distinguished. Johan Galtung, defines violence as 'the difference

adequately explain why political violence occurs, but several political scientists have created theoretical explanations to help in the process. These explanations include the relative deprivation theory, cultural explanations, structural or institutional explanations, and primordialism. I personally believe that relative deprivation offers the most leverage in explaining why political violence occurs because it takes into account the variance of political violence and shared characteristics across

perform ritual murders. In 1983, Constanzo traveled to Mexico City, were he recruited his first disciples. After multiple killings, he managed to evade police by hiding out in his Mexico City ranch until a 1989 raid, during which he asked his fellow cult members to kill him. One of the theories that come to mind after reading this case would be Gender Diversity and Violence. James Messerschmidt

that provided the catalyst for the French Revolution and the conditions that existed in19th century imperial Russia, are strikingly similar. Both societies for better or worse functioned under the authority of an absolute monarchy with an inherent structural inequality between the ruling class, and a majority disenfranchised agrarian peasantry. Russia and France differed significantly in economically due to the fact that both revolutions were separated by more than a century of industrial development