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From Conflictual Systems to a Society of Peace: Nonviolence facing organized evil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Roberto Mancini
Roberto Mancini*
Affiliation:
University of Macerata, Italy
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Roberto Mancini, University of Macerata, via Crescimbeni, 30/32 MC, Macerata, Italy. Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

This article is focused on the relation between peace and nonviolence. It claims that the main challenge for peace comes from the power of structural violence. This is the main form of evil in history. Today structural violence is at work in the political and economic global systems. They obey a logic of conflict. The exercise of nonviolence can avoid the tendency to transform the connection between violence, evil, dehumanization, and great organizational systems into a destiny. The dynamic that is needed to effect this is to move from the primacy of automatism in political and market power to the primacy of human consciousness. Experiences such as reconciliation, democratic growth, restorative justice, and harmonization with the natural world should be considered as the effects of this systemic translation to nonviolence.

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Diogenes , Volume 61 , Issue 3-4: Theories and Practices of Non-Violence , August 2014 , pp. 59 - 70
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Copyright © ICPHS 2017

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