Paper short abstract:

The ways in which violence has become in the last century and the one we are witnessing in the present, compel us to analyze the so-called "civilization process" of humanity. Therefore, I will try to understand and reflect with the view of the theory of complexity what is the structural violence, what is its structure and how occurs in today's world and finally how manifests and exercises violence in our culture. With the opening in the 20th century and the emergence of new technologies (for example, vaccines, antibiotics, electricity, TV and internet, etc.) have emerged simultaneously new faces of violence: mass killings, holocausts, disappearances of people, in other words: the structural violence that people live in unjust social conditions and is deprived of the possibility of realizing their full human potential. Are as well those situations where the damage occurs in the satisfaction of basic human needs (survival, well-being, identity or freedom) as a result of the processes of social stratification, frequently there is no need to exercise forms of direct violence, the structural violence is a mystifying violence, as Marx would say. In this paper I will link these ideas with the situation of violence which the mexican people are suffering today.

Paper long abstract:

The ways in which violence has become in the last century and the one we are witnessing in the present, compel us to analyze the so-called "civilization process" of humanity. Therefore, I will try to understand and reflect what is the structural violence, what is its structure and how occurs in today's world and finally how manifests and exercises violence in our culture.

With the opening in the 20th century and the emergence of new technologies (for example, vaccines, antibiotics, electricity, TV and internet, etc.) have emerged simultaneously new faces of violence: mass killings, holocausts, disappearances of people, in other words: the structural violence that people live in unjust social conditions and is deprived of the possibility of realizing their full human potential. Are as well those situations where the damage occurs in the satisfaction of basic human needs (survival, well-being, identity or freedom) as a result of the processes of social stratification, frequently there is no need to exercise forms of direct violence, the structural violence is a mystifying violence, as Marx would say and it is also the violence of poverty in all its dimensions it shows with a new face: with new public policies of detention, the increase in poverty are reflected as say Mike Davis in a planet of slums places where there are daily violations of human rights and also there is the constant threat of nuclear war. In this paper I will link these ideas with the situation of violence which the mexican people are suffering today.