Reflections on attentional violence December 3, 2014 | Expressive Change | Undine Whande| 1 Comment Most of us are probably familiar with Johan Galtung’s ‘typology of violence’. As a peace researcher Galtung is known for developing the term and theory of structural violence. The concept of structural violence dawned on him while seeing the victims of poverty in India. People were suffering and yet the cause […] Read More The frenzy October 17, 2012 | Expressive Change | Tana Paddock| 11 Comments I find myself returning so often to these words of Thomas Merton that I figured it would be worth dedicating a blog post to them: “There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist fighting for peace by non-violent methods most easily succumbs […] Read More
