Other faces of violence

Abstract

The text examines the faces of violence that are usually obscured by the forms that receive exclusivist prominence in the media and in public debate, such as robberies, armed robberies and kidnappings. The exposition sustains that violence and impunity also manifest themselves in the impediment of free thought, in the pain of hunger, in illness without relief, in torture, in the lack of work, in the absence of schooling and in discrimination of any kind. The investigation adopts the methodology contained in the text, of philosophical and educational reflection. It concludes that peace, to be effective, must be collective and built in the incessant realization of social justice, under penalty of being reduced to an ethical illusion that legitimizes privileges for some while the majority becomes a fragile survivor of exclusion.