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Direct violence: physical attack/abuse

Can be random, esp. at inter-personal level; planned and intentional for specific purposes (war, genocide, suppression); capacity for organised violence is institutionalised in state institutions (military prisons)

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Direct violence: physical attack/abuse
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Cultural violence
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Galtung: peace is absence/reduction of violence of all kinds
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Negative peace: absence of direct violence
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Structural violence: built into social relations and processes
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