Institution; Violence; Curtin, Deane; Martin, Glen T.
摘要
This essay understand institutional violence as including such structural aspects of our present world order as widespread global poverty，pervasive militarism，the nation state system and the massive accumulation of capital in a few hands. Part One examines a substantial Buddhist literature seeing the roots of institutional violence in our distorted conceptions of selfhood. Part Two argues that a satisfactory Buddhist understanding of institutional violence must supplement the focus on selfhood with insights of critical social theory developed since Marx. Hence，both the personal and structural dimensions must be simultaneously transformed if we are to be free of institutional violence.
