From: mweigand@usa.net Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 08:47:20 -0700 Reply-To: Mark Weigand Subject: Re: An Idea.. To: slein@e1m147.mpibpc.gwdg.de, Racial-Religious-EthnoNationalist Violence Studies In-Reply-To: Certainly a worthy effort. One book which may be helpful is called Religion and Violence by Robert McAfee Brown at Stanford (probably out of print but in libraries). He discusses several types of violence found in society: personal overt physical assault, institutionalized overt physical assault, personal covert violence and institutionalized covert violence. He especially discusses these types with reference to racial groups in society. He also discusses violence in war and the concept of a "just war". One very instructive concept is that of "structural violence", or the violence of the apparently peaceful status quo. Racism in an otherwise peaceful society is an example of structural violence, as is discrimination when it becomes "business as usual". I hope this is helpful.