RELIGST 2H03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Johan Galtung

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIGST 2H03
• Professor: Ann Pearson

Document Summary

Johan galtung describes violence as: any action, word, attitude, structure, or system that causes physical, psychological and/or ecological damage, preventing people from reaching their full potential. Violence is defined as the cause of the difference between the potential and the actual physical. Violence is that which increases this distance when the distance is avoidable (ex. life expectancy of human beings in the neolithic times. If they died at the age of 35 which during that time would say that the person lived a good life)