CPAU's experience dealing with different types of violence at various levels:

Violence Types

Levels

Physical Violence Cultural Violence Structural Violence
Family
  • beating
  • child labour/forced labour
  • calling names
  • intimidation
  • imprisonment
  • depriving from food
  • deprivation of girls from education
  • not allowing children to express their ideas
  • unhealthy cultural values and traditions
  • superstitions
  • preference of boy vs girls
  • men can get easily married for the 2nd & 3rd times
  • taunting language
  • Notion of son/daughter in law
  • spirit of indifference
  • lack of freedom to express self opinions
  • denying rights related to others
  • poverty at the family level
  • only one person as income earner
  • malnutrition
Schools
  • beating
  • use of sticks (most often and normally)
  • calling name
  • torture
  • punishment
  • sexual harassment/power abuse
  • messages of hatred
  • top-down teaching approach
  • students as objects
  • No room for students participation
  • prejudice and discrimination
  • taunting language
  • texts full of violence messages
  • heavy subjects beyond understanding of students
  • unilateral made carricula
  • no school facilities for all
Community/society
  • intimidation
  • sexual abuse
  • power abuse
  • kidnapping
  • killing
  • beating
  • torture
  • isolation
  • forced marriages
  • excessive expenses for wedding and condolence ceremonies
  • not allowing women and children in decision making
  • ethnic discrimination
  • difference between man & woman
  • taunting language
  • deprivation of women from their inheritance rights
  • indifference to public assets
  • poverty
  • exploitation by those ceasing power (landlords and farmers)
  • no domestic laws
National
  • fighting
  • killing
  • arrest
  • beating
  • torture & amputation
  • human rights abuse and grave violation
  • demolished residential areas
  • sexual abuse and trafficking
  • drug and smuggling
  • lack of free media
  • discrimination in recruiting governmental employees
  • low roles for women in the government and state positions
  • poor are poor because of their fate
  • selection vs election
  • war and criminal economy
  • not quality education
  • taunting language
  • less chances for people to participate in social, cultural and political forums
  • scourge of poverty
  • inaccessibility to health and education facilities
  • exploitation
  • weak civil society with less influence
  • unjust distribution of resources
  • deprivation of people from their civil, economic, and political rights
  • state building vs nation building