{"id":111346,"date":"2018-05-28T12:00:38","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T11:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=111346"},"modified":"2018-05-17T11:38:25","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T10:38:25","slug":"what-is-structural-violence-what-does-it-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/05\/what-is-structural-violence-what-does-it-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Structural Violence? What Does It Mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/logo-the-audiopedia.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-111349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/logo-the-audiopedia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"88\" height=\"88\" \/><\/a>Structural violence is a term commonly ascribed to Johan Galtung, which he introduced in the article <em>&#8220;Violence, Peace, and Peace Research&#8221;<\/em> (1969). It refers to a form of violence wherein some social structure or social institution may harm people by preventing them from meeting their basic needs\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D6alqkFII2E<br \/>\n<em>Johan Galtung, a professor of peace studies, dr hc mult, is founder of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND International<\/a><em> and rector of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tpu\/\" >TRANSCEND Peace University<\/a><em>. Prof. Galtung has published more than 1500 articles\u00a0and book\u00a0chapters, over 500 Editorials for <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/\" >TRANSCEND Media Service<\/a>,<em> and more than 170 books on peace and related issues<\/em>, <em>of which more than 40 have been translated to other languages, including <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tup\/index.php?book=1\" >50 Years-100 Peace and Conflict Perspectives<\/a><em> published by <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tup\/\" >TRANSCEND University Press<\/a><em>. More<a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/galtung\/\" > information about Prof. Galtung<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/galtung\/#publications\" >all of his publications<\/a> can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/galtung\/\" >transcend.org\/galtung<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Structural violence is a term commonly ascribed to Johan Galtung, which he introduced in the article &#8220;Violence, Peace, and Peace Research&#8221; (1969). It refers to a form of violence wherein some social structure or social institution may harm people by preventing them from meeting their basic needs\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[431],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcend-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}