Tag: Violence

• We have seen better days

  Things seem to change so quickly nowadays, don’t they? Of course we often grow impatient if they don’t; we expect a channel to change as soon as we press the button, the Google result to appear immediately; waiting for the red light to turn green at an intersection seems to take far too long. We […]

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  May 4, 2022

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  Aesop’s Fables, BBC Future, Cassandra, change, effects, Johan Galtung, multimodality, poisons, Princeton University, Richard Fisher, Rob Nixon, slow violence, structural violence, Violence

• This Thing of Darkness

  We all walk the earth in egg-shell armour at the whim of Nature. There is little of any of us that will not break if chaos strikes, or heal without a scar. You’d think that, given our fragility, we would opt for conciliation or compromise, and yet more often we challenge those who are not […]

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  November 7, 2018

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  CTE, domestic abuse, heroes, intimate partner violence, Los Angeles Times, Maria Garay-Serratos, Paul van Donkelaar, PTSD, Steven Pinker, TBI, The Better Angels of Our Nature, The Conversation, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, University of British Columbia, victims, Violence

• Violence Against Women

  According to a recent meta-analysis by the World Health Organization, one in three women worldwide are subject to intimate partner violence (IPV) http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6140/1527.short . And it’s not just a third world problem either, as we Canadians with our often parochial outlook would no doubt like to believe. True, some countries seem to be over-represented: ‘East […]

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  June 5, 2014

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  Aboriginal women, British Medical Journal, intimate partner violence, IPV, meta-analysis, screening for domestic violence, Violence, violence against women, WHO, women, World Health Organization