Structural Violence and Human Predicaments: A Brief Introduction

Abstract

The world is engulfed with violence and is in perpetual violence and threats of violence. Scholars and thinkers from different fields have spilled considerable ink over the topic of violence. We have seen violence of different types occurring in and around us. Violence exists and will be aspects of reality. However, when we use the term violence, we often narrow it down the term or rather merely associate it with physical violence or direct violence is not a comprehensive concept of what violence is all about because violence is more than just physical or direct. There are definitions given by different thinkers from different areas of expertise....