Violence Explained: The Sources of Conflict, Violence and Crime and Their Prevention (Political Analyses) - Softcover

Burton, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0719050480 ISBN 13: 9780719050480

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 1997

Synopsis

Violence, conflict and crime are a cause for concern in all societies and at all social levels. Police gaols and international forces are not providing security because dealing with one situation does not prevent others emerging. This text offers a different approach and explains how it can be used as a basis for a public policy. It argues that conflict and violence are, on the one had, the result of the denial to many of their personal needs for develpment, social recognition and identity, and, on the other, the social expectation of compliance and the means used to enforce it. Social protest, terrorism, revolution, self-appointed leaderships, ethnic conflicts, industrial strife, street gangs of unemployed youth and even some family violence can be explained within this 'structural violence'. The book examines the adversarial institutions of society and leadership, legislatures, the work-place, the legal system and the international relations system and considers what each would be like if they were designed to solve basic problems rather than contain them. -- .

About this title

About the Author

John Burton was Secretary of the Department of External Affairs in Australia, Director of the Centre for Analysis of Conflict at University College, London, and taught at the University of Maryland and George Mason University, Virginia, where he helped establish Centres for Conflict Analysis and Resolution.

Edition details

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0719050480
• ISBN 13: 9780719050480
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176