PEACEST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Structural Violence

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Peace Studies
• Course: PEACEST 1A03
• Professor: Jorge Fabra- Zamora

Document Summary

Debate: the question of our time: should we use a restricted de nition of violence or a. The exercise of physical force so as to in ict injury on and damage to persons or property . You"re only violent if you torture people. Restrict violence to only physical violence, not discrimination or hate speech. Structural violence - institutions using slavery are violent. Police force / brutality - violence that is done with reason. Imprisonment of a criminal - violence / force that is justi ed. Violence is something we don"t want to use, but sometimes it is used, it just hast to be justi ed. Police and governments do, but it needs to be backed up by justi cation. Only political authority can legitimate exercise violence.