An Empirical Table of Structural Violence

Köhler, Gernot; Alcock, Norman

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“…The ambition was to be able to operationalize 'structural violence' and to test the notion of the young radicals that there was much more violence in the North-South conflict than in the EastWest conflict. A framework for operationalizing the concept was developed by Galtung & Høivik (1971) and Høivik (1977), who used demographic data to estimate the annual loss of life from structural violence at 18 million, largely in line with an earlier estimate by Köhler & Alcock (1976). 23 These estimates seemed to confirm the claims made by the young Turks: the North-South conflict did indeed cause the loss of more human life than the East-West conflict, although obviously this would 20 See Galtung (1998Galtung ( /2013 and Lynch (2014: 41).…”

Section: Broader Concepts Of Peacementioning

confidence: 99%

Peace research – Just the study of war?

Gleditsch

Nordkvelle

Strand

2014

Journal of Peace Research

172

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The concept of peace has been under discussion in peace research from its start over 50 years ago. This article reviews the debate on broader and narrower conceptions of peace and investigates empirical patterns in the first 49 volumes of Journal of Peace Research, with some comparisons with Journal of Conflict Resolution. Negative peace, in the sense of reducing war, was the main focus in peace research from the inception. But positive peace, in the sense of cooperation or integration, has also always been on the peace research agenda, as reflected in the contents of both journals. Over time, a larger share of the articles in JPR has 'violence' or related terms in the title, while the incidence of the word 'peace' is fairly stable. Furthermore, articles on peace generally have fewer citations than those with violence-related terms. A broad concept of peace, as encouraged by the definition of positive peace as the reversal of structural violence, was popular in peace research for a decade or so, but has largely evaporated. To some extent, peace research has returned to its original agenda, although the main attention has shifted from interstate war to civil war and to some extent to one-sided and non-state violence. Articles dealing with patterns of cooperation, the traditional meaning of positive peace, now tend to address the liberal agenda and ask how they can foster a reduced probability of violence. Despite the 'gender gap', the increasing share of female authors in the journal appears to have had little influence on these developments although it may well have had other effects.

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Section: Broader Concepts Of Peacementioning

confidence: 99%

Peace research – Just the study of war?

Gleditsch

Nordkvelle

Strand

2014

Journal of Peace Research

172

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“…Alors que Galtung et Hoïvik (1971) ont soutenu la thèse que l'espérance de vie est proportionnelle à la position sociale, les recherches empiriques de Kölher et Alcock (1976) (Alcock & Köhler, 1979). On peut estimer que leur contribution et l'élargissement de la portée de la violence structurelle vers un intérêt plus politique ont contribué à l'élaboration du modèle triangulaire de la violence structurelle et à la définition de la violence culturelle.…”

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Entre théorie de la paix et continuum de la violence

Flynn¹,

Damant²,

Bernard³

et al. 2016

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Dans le cadre d’un vaste projet de recherche-action pancanadien sur la violence structurelle envers les jeunes, cet article présente une réflexion théorique sur ce concept. Il fait d’abord une rétrospective de la façon dont les théoriciens ont défini le concept de la violence structurelle, les différentes critiques associées à son opérationnalisation de même que les mutations qu’il a subies depuis son introduction par Galtung en 1969. Le texte se termine par une discussion autour des principaux enjeux analytiques et empiriques inhérents à son utilisation et propose une grille d’analyse pour l’étude de ce concept en service social.

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“…31 Köhler and Alcock, conversely, considered structural violence through its inputs, which included lack of food, shelter, medical care, employment opportunities, and education, among other indicators. 32 Farmer defined structural violence in terms of inherently unequal socio-economic systems within a state that enable the spread and continuation of poverty, disease, crime, and accidents at a local level. 33 While differing in their theoretical understanding of what measurements one should use to define structural violence, the above scholars shared the common belief that unjust and exploitative structural conditions cause structural violence.…”

Section: China's Economic Statecraft Structural Power and Structuramentioning

confidence: 99%

Economic Statecraft, Structural Power, and Structural Violence in Sino-Kyrgyz Relations

Reeves¹

2015

Asian Security

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An Empirical Table of Structural Violence

Cited by 66 publications

References 2 publications

Peace research – Just the study of war?

Peace research – Just the study of war?

Entre théorie de la paix et continuum de la violence

Economic Statecraft, Structural Power, and Structural Violence in Sino-Kyrgyz Relations

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