Violence and Nonviolence

<b><i><p>Violence and Nonviolence: Pathways to Understanding</b></i> is the first book to provide an integrative systematic approach to the study of violence and nonviolence in one volume. Eminent scholar and award-winning author Gregg Barak examines virtually all forms of violence-from verbal abuse to genocide-and treats all of these expressions of violence as interpersonal institutional and structural occurrences. In the context of recovery and nonviolence Barak addresses peace and conflict studies legal rights social justice and various nonviolent movements. Employing an interdisciplinary framework Barak emphasizes the importance of culture media sexuality gender and social structure in developing a comprehensive theory of these two separate but inseparable phenomena.</p>