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Glossary

  • Violence

    Includes any abuse of power, manipulation or control by one person over another that could result in mental, emotional, social or physical harm. Two descriptors of types of violence are interpersonal violence and structural violence. The former is a matter of person-to-person or person-group violence, while the latter is about systematic ways that social structures, organizations and institutions harm or marginalize people.