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Institutional Violence

Violence can be physical and psychological. It can characterize personal actions, forms of group activity, and abiding social and political policy. This book includes all of these aspects within its focus on institutional forms of violence. Institution is also a broad category, ranging from formal arrangements such as the military, the criminal code, the death penalty and prison system, to more amorphous but systemic situations indicated by parenting, poverty, sexism, work, and racism. Violence is as complex as the human beings who resort to it; its institutional forms pervade. our relational lives. We are all participants in it as victim and perpetrators. The chapters in this book - were written in the hope that violence can be explicated, even if not fully understood, and that such clarification can help us in devising less violent forms of living, even if it does not lead to its total abolition. The studies bring new aspects of violence to light and offer a number of suggestions for its remedy.

Contents: Joseph C. KUNKEL: Editorial Foreword. Deane CURTIN and Robert LITKE: Preface. Acknowledgements.

SECTION I CULTURAL FORMS OF VIOLENCE. Introduction ONE Steven LEE: Is Poverty Violence?
TWO William C. GAY: Linguistic Violence
THREE Natalie DANDEKAR. Compromised Childhoods and Social Violence FOUR Stephen NATHANSON: The Death Penalty as a Peace Issue
FIVE Mar PETER-RAOUL and Sherrie APPLE: Mothers in Prison: Institutional Violence, Human Values, and Healing.
SIX Robert SESSIONS:. Work and Peacemaking.*
SECTION II INTERNATIONAL DIMENSIONS OF INSTITUTIONAL VIOLENCE. Introduction
SEVEN Robert LITKE:. Fundamentalism, Oppression, and Violence
EIGHT Jerald RICHARDS: Ideological Intolerance: Causes, Consequences, and Alternatives NINE Judith L. PRESLER - Genocide and Moral Philosophy
TEN Eddy SOUFFRANT: International Intervention: Shell in Nigeria
SECTION III FEMINISM AND INSTITUTIONAL VIOLENCE. Introduction
ELEVEN Sally J. SCHOLZ: The Challenge of Systemic Oppression: The Dangerous Divorce of Civil and Domestic Spheres
TWELVE James P.. STERBA: Feminist Justice and Sexual Harassment Amy IHLAN: Feminism and Firearms
SECTION IV RACISM AND SYSTEMIC PREJUDICE. Introduction
FOURTEEN Laura DUHAN KAPLAN: Devaluing Others to Enhance Our Self-Esteem: A
Moral Phenomenology of Racism
FIFTEEN Paul C. TAYLOR: Context and Color-Confrontation: Cress Theory and the
Necessity of Racism
SIXTEEN Paula J. SMITHKA: The Limits of Tolerance
SEVENTEEN Larry UDELL: Racism and Prejudice
EIGHTEEN Robert GINSBERG: Institutional Violence as Systemic Evil
SECTION V ENVIRONMENTAL VIOLENCE. Introduction
NINETEEN Michael Allen FOX: Ecofeminism, and the Dismantling of Institutional Violence
TWENTY Judith A. BOSS: Treading on Harrowed Ground: The Violence of Agriculture
SECTION VI VIOLENCE AND THE MILITARY. Introduction
TWENTY-ONE John KULTGEN: Managing Violence under Military Professionalization
TWENTY-TWO Gail M. PRESBEY: The Armed Forces Caught in a Web: Both Victim and
Perpetrators of Violence
TWENTY-THREE David E. JOHNSON: Ethical Education in the Military: Controlling the
Institution of Violence
SECTION VII THINKING NONVIOLENTLY. Introduction
TWENTY-FOUR Joseph C. KUNKEL: Power, Public Authority, and Nonviolence
TWENTY-FIVE Ron HIRSCHBEIN: A World Without Enemies (Bush's Brush with Morality)
TWENTY-SIX Andrew NORMAN: Epistemological Violence
TWENTY-SEVEN Glen T. MARTIN: A Buddhist Response to Institutional Violence
Reference Bibliography
About the Authors,
Index

Philosophy of Peace (POP)

conflicts. Reflecting the diversity and vitality and any new field of study, this volume contains five sections: Conceptual Foundations; America's Homefront; Desert Storm Assessments; Jihad, Intifada, and Other Mdeast Concerns; and Latin American Issues. The topics of the articles include war, militarism, patriotism, nationalism, nonviolence, conscientious objection, feminist peace, the media, the ethics of the Gulf War, the IsraeliPalestinian conflict, Islamic pacifism, and Latin American resistance. A concluding postscript assesses prospects for achieving peace and change within our fast changing international scene. This volume has an extensive bibliography of writings concerning peace and conflict and is suited to professional and student audiences.

Theories and Practices. KAPLAN, Laura DUHAN and Laurence F. BOVE (Eds.) Amsterdam/Atlanta, GA, 1997. XV,319 pp.

self," that is domination? Section III responds to political realism as it explores morally ideal solutions to the global problems of poverty, war and hunger. Section IV discusses ways in which our thought and practice in both public and private life are bound up in hierarchies of domination.

Injustice, Violence, and Peace. The Case of South Africa. Amsterdam/Atlanta, GA, 1997. XV,223 pp.

This book argues that the secret to the political miracle achieved in South Africa is a comprehensive change in the conception of justice as guiding political institutions. Pursuing justice is a moral imperative that has practical value as a cost-efficient way of dealing with conflict This case study in applied ethics and social theory patiently explains how justice in the new South Africa restores humanity and establishes lasting peace, whereas injustice in apartheid South Africa led to conflict and dehumanization.