![]() These enriched concepts of violence and peace deepen understanding in peace research and peace action by giving a more complete picture of a context. Negative peace is defined as the absence of personal violence, while positive peace is defined as the absence of structural violence. ![]() Therefore, violence is defined as the ‘cause of the difference between the potential and the actual,’ with six distinctions creating a typology of violence.īased on these dimensions of violence, the idea of peace is expanded to include negative and positive aspects. Rather, he notes that violence is present when human beings are being influenced so that their actual somatic and mental realisations are below their potential realisations. ![]() The author rejects the narrow view of violence as the intentional harm done by an actor to someone else. If peace is used to largely mean the ‘absence of violence,’ then it is crucial to understand the many facets of violence. ![]() This paper is a theoretical discussion of the definitions and dimensions of the terms ‘peace’ and ‘violence’ in the field of peace research.
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