The Culture of Violence (UNU, 1994, 292 p.): (introduction...)

The Culture of Violence (UNU, 1994, 292 p.)

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		Introduction
		1. Forms of violence and its transformation
		2. Rejoinder to the theory of structural violence
		3. Remythologizations of power and identity: Nationalism and violence in Sri Lanka
		4. The impact of drug trafficking on Colombian culture
		5. Ethnic violence: The case of Bolivia
		6. Violence and conflict resolution in Uganda
		7. Violence and the welfare state: The case of Venezuela as an oil country
		8. State terrorism and death squads in the New World Order
		9. Violence and culture in the United States
		10. Children in the city of violence: The case of Brazil
		11. Human rights and dictatorship: The case of Chile
		Contributors

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Edited by Kumar Rupesinghe and Marcial Rubio C.

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The culture of violence

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The UN University launched in 1990 a programme of research and training on Governance and Conflict Resolution with a view to producing a coherent framework and building knowledge and competence for resolving internal conflicts caused by ethnic, cultural, and linguistic differences. The programme has examined the underlying conditions for internal conflicts, particularly where this is manifested through direct violence. It has also focused on the conceptual and theoretical problems related to such conflicts, early warning of potential conflicts, and conflict transformation.

The present volume addresses the question of culture that legitimizes violence and the impact of routinized violence upon culture, through theoretical reflections and empirical case-studies. This volume should contribute to better understanding of the culture-violence interface, which has remained a much-neglected area of study. The papers included here are the revised versions of papers presented at a UNU symposium on the subject in Lima, Peru, in October 1991.

The culture of violence

Edited by Kumar Rupesinghe and Marcial Rubio C.

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