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In this article we analyze the notion of violence using Johan Galtung's theory of direct, structural, and cultural violence as a conceptual framework. This lens, triangulated and enriched with concepts from other authors, by also emphasizing the historical and geopolitical characteristics of the Mexican context, will help overcome some of the limitations of said theory. By emphasizing the complexity of this phenomenon, we reinterpret it from an interdisciplinary approach to elucidate some areas that otherwise remain unseen and open the debate of the underlying power mechanisms and the way it acquires internal efficacy, producing concealed consequences, such as adapted subjectivities. The objective of our analysis is to highlight its' multiple dimensions and forms, and a critical examination of its invisibility and normalization. This theoretical dissertation is essential, because a deeper comprehension is a prerequisite to develop means of prevention and elimination from the core, which is unresolved conflict. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Murders, tortures, rapes and terrorist attacks are not predominant topics in Primero estaba el mar, Temporal and Abraham entre bandidos. These novels by Tomás González, therefore, move away from the graphic representation of violence that has proliferated in Colombian media and monopolized Colombian literary production since the 1990s. This article tries, nonetheless, to demonstrate that violence is still there, beyond the visible and the immediate. Based on Johan Galtung's, Slavoj Žižek's and Byung Chul-Han's theoretical reflections on violence, this article addresses significant questions as: Why is so difficult to recognize, classify and enunciate violence in the Colombian literary context? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Thesis defended in this text is that it is necessary now to unite duties and rights, such as personal, group, institutional responsibility and the State. To defend this idea are the approaches of Eastern cultures and thought of Thomas Scanlon, Johan Galtung and Amartya Sen are used. The first takes the justification of personal responsibility as a way to realize the justice, different attitude to the classic which examines fair institutions, without further reference to personal duties. It picks up Galtung thinking because of its reference to the current global governance and even if it criticizes the idea of human rights of Sen, the position of this author to gathers duties and rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article aims to analyze in greater detail the forms and kinds of violence, following the classifications made from Peace Research. In this paper we set out a summary of reasons, origins, forms, results, ambiguity of the word violence, but above all, the factors that determine the violent behavior of human beings: such as instinct, social learning, frustration, etc., which can be exploited as intellectual tools to induce human beings into understanding, harmony, and especially, the transformation of conflicts. Following Johan Galtung, we try to clarify the types of violence: direct (verbal, psychological and physical); structural (poverty, repression, pollution, alignment, etc.); cultural (from ideas, norms, values, tradition, etc.), and/or symbolic (demonstrations by acts or rituals that give recognition to direct and structural violence). Finally, noting that the central thesis of this paper is that "human being is conflictive by nature, but violent because of education and culture". This thesis is supported by defining three aspects: a) The meaning of violence (a typically human phenomenon, biologically free but psychologically voluntary); b) The manifestations of violence, and c) its possible taxonomy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This quantitative research was aimed to observe the level of violence in the local news content of the District of Santa Marta, published in newspapers such as: El Informador, Hoy Diario del Magdalena, Ajá y Qué, and Al Día. The analysis characterized the cultural and structural direct violence among the spaces where it usually develops: Nature, Man and Society, according to the theory about the structures of violence in society by Johan Galtung, for the analysis of text structure the approach of Teun Van Dijk was used. Results indicate that the violent events that occurred in greater proportion were observed in environments of humans whose acts constitute direct violence, followed by society, whose acts constitute structural violence, and finally nature, whose acts constitute cultural violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to analyze the international relationships during the Republican administrations of Ronald Reagan (1981-1989) and George W. Bush (2001-2004). In light of the foregoing, we hope to identify their key similarities, both in foreign policy as in the use of a common Protestant religious rhetoric, through a critical analysis based on Johan Galtung's viewpoint. This will include, a priori, the "understandable" behavior at the international level the United States of America during the last two decades. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article intends the updating of the existing epistemology to make the peaces. To that end, this text makes an effort to enrich and to overcome Johan Galtung's work. Building a peaceful world implies a start from a violent world that affects all humankind. The creation of a model of peace from antropology entails the overcoming of old concepts and ovrselves' introduction in new forms of understanding and approach peace: internal, social and gaia, to end in a transcultural peace. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]