PEACEST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Peace And Conflict Studies, Structural Violence, Domestic Violence
27 Sep 2016
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Last week: the methodology of peace studies , seeks a holistic study of peace. Both theoretical and practical; quantitative and qualitative; empirical, analytical and normative: is transdisciplinary. It is connected with many fields of knowledge, and many types of research. It is innovative in many fields and promotes different forms of studying traditional problems. Why it is bad: definitional problems (time problem, conceptual borders. Explore wide and restricted definitions of violence: coady / galtung, who (chapter 17, geneva declaration (chapter 16, hannah arendt (chapter 15) and her news on violence, there are wide and restricted definitions of violence. Physical, damage of property, insulting/psychologically (directly affecting another person) When there is domestic abuse, there is usually an inequality of power and resources this is a form of violence; where people are not fit to live peacefully: structural violence. Socio structure which allows for inequality of resources and power: cultural violence.
