Abstract

MOLOEZNIK, Marcos Pablo  and  PORTILLA-TINAJERO, Radamanto. About paradigms of violence. Espiral (Guadalaj.) [online]. 2021, vol.28, n.82, pp.9-39.  Epub Jan 17, 2022. ISSN 1665-0565.

Violence constitutes a complex phenomenon as well as an historical constant. This explains that various thinkers and writers have tried to define, interpret and classify it. Violence destroys the most sacred of human rights, the right to life. In particular, genocide and other crimes against humanity, war crimes, sporadic and isolated acts of violence -other situations of violence-, terrorism and organized criminal violence, are the modalities of collective violence responsible for majority of the violent deaths that severely question the social pact. Hence the urgent need to carry out a review of the paradigms of violence and the most pernicious types of violence that cause the greatest damage to the social dimension.

Keywords : violence; genocide; armed conflicts; other situations of violence (OSV); terrorism; organized criminal violence.