We are now including them on the school's Web site so that others can benefit from the Quaker Thought of the Week. War and violence are rooted in untruth, as is all sin. And the truth here should be known . . We must have faith in our rights and in the signs of hope in our midst. Understanding structural violence enables us to consider our situation not only at the level of symptoms, but more importantly, at the level of underlying and systemic causes.
Structural violence is silent.
It does not show. Television captures direct violence and, most often, the violence of the powerless and hopeless, which is then usually qualified as terror.