Tournament: Newman Smith | Round: 1 | Opponent: Coppell Chalemela | Judge: Chris Randall
The standard for the round is resisting structural violence.
Opotow 01 (Susan Opotow is a psychologist who examines the intersection of conflict, justice, and identity as they give rise to moral exclusion. Has guest edited The Journal of Social Issues and Social Justice Research and co-edited Identity and the Natural Environment: The Psychological Significance of Nature (MIT Press, 2003). Associate editor of Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology and Past President of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues; “Social Injustice”, Peace, Conflict, and Violence: Peace Psychology for the 21st Centuryl Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 2001.https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/u.osu.edu/dist/b/7538/files/2014/10/Chapter-8-Social-Injustice-Opotow-1jaya7m.pdf -- KW)
“Violence is the exertion of physical force so as to injure or abuse. Johan Galtung (1969) directs our attention
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o such social and economic resources as education, wealth, quality housing, civic services, and political power.”
This is the best standard because:
resisting structural violence is a prerequisite to achieving any other values because it renders certain people expendable. It makes possible ongoing and pervasive violence against people that fall outside of our moral community.
Opotow 01 (Susan Opotow is a psychologist who examines the intersection of conflict, justice, and identity as they give rise to moral exclusion. Has guest edited The Journal of Social Issues and Social Justice Research and co-edited Identity and the Natural Environment: The Psychological Significance of Nature (MIT Press, 2003). Associate editor of Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology and Past President of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues; “Social Injustice”, Peace, Conflict, and Violence: Peace Psychology for the 21st Centuryl Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 2001.https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/u.osu.edu/dist/b/7538/files/2014/10/Chapter-8-Social-Injustice-Opotow-1jaya7m.pdf -- KW)
Both structural and direct violence results from moral justifications and rationalizations. Morals are the nor
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ions that maximize a positive social identity for oneself or one’s group at the expense of others (Tajfel, 1982).