Understanding Violence

What violence are we talking about when we refer to “violence in non-war settings”? How do we describe it? How do we qualify it? How do we analyze it? And what proposals can we make from a peacebuilding perspective?

Over the last few years, ICIP has investigated this issue collaboratively, engaging in analysis and reflection activities with diverse participants, including peace and human rights activists, victims, and experts from the academic, journalistic, cultural, or institutional fields.

Faced with the enormous heterogeneity of violence—direct, structural, or cultural—around the world outside of wars, the ICIP commits to working specifically in situations where its armed dimension conditions life, security, and human rights.