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"This volume examines the relationship between culture and violence, an aspect of the phenomenon heretofore neglected but of growing interest and importance. Taking as their point of departure violence between groups within a state, or between the state and groups residing within it, the contri...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Author: United Nations University
Other Authors: Rupesinghe, Kumar, Rubio Correa, Marcial
Format: Government Document Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tokyo : United Nations University Press, ©1994.
Subjects:
Violence > Congresses.
Violence > Latin America > Congresses.
Violence > Congrès.
Violence > Amérique latine > Congrès.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Violence in Society.
Violence
Geweld.
NATIONALISM.
BUDDHISM.
POLITICAL POWER.
SRI LANKA.
DRUG TRAFFIC.
DRUG PRODUCTION.
ECONOMIC CONDITIONS.
COLOMBIA.
ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS.
ETHNICITY.
BOLIVIA.
ARMED INCIDENTS.
UGANDA.
PETROLEUM INDUSTRY.
VENEZUELA (BOLIVARIAN REPUBLIC OF)
CHILDREN.
URBAN AREAS.
BRAZIL.
POLITICAL VIOLENCE.
UNITED STATES.
ARMED CONFLICTS.
Latin America
Conference papers and proceedings
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Forms of violence and its transformation / Kumar Rupesinghe
  • Rejoinder to the theory of structural violence / Felipe E. MacGregor and Marcial Rubio C.
  • Remythologizations of power and identity : nationalism and violence in Sri Lanka / Bruce Kapferer
  • The impact of drug trafficking on Colombian culture / Francisco J. de Roux
  • Ethnic violence : the case of Bolivia / Xazier Albó
  • Violence and conflict resolution in Uganda / Edward Khidduy-Makubuya
  • Violence and the welfare state : the case of Venezuela as an oil country / Luis Pedro España N.
  • State terrorism and death squads in the new world order / Miles D. Wolpin
  • Violence and culture in the United States / Robert Brent Toplin
  • Children in the city of violence : the case of Brazil / Irene Rizzini
  • Human rights and dictatorship : the case of Chile / Tony Mifsud.

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