POLI 360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Perpetual Peace, Structural Level, Structural Violence
28 Sep 2014
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Social goals, possible to attain, does incorporate the idea: peace is absence of violence. Discussion of violence is close with clause and singer. Pyshcological: threats, impair the mind, along these lines. Positive/ negative: positive attempting to influence with rewards, reward doing what you want them to do. You are constraining peoples options and opportunities, you determine what their opportunities are, ex. N. korea, we give them other shit so they wont do nuclear weapons, fromt his perspective, this is violence, we determine what their opportunities are. Violence understood as influence, positive and violence. Galtung"s expression has had an overarching influence as with singer. Clause war is getting others to do what you want, influence, war is politics. Galtung conditions of peace require systemic changes of pol. Relations, we need to address violence in all forms, reorganize society top to bottom, radical.
