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Contemporary Expressions of Violence — a few perspectives
In the recent history of the world, one of the main concerns of many public and private bodies regards violence, understood as human aggression, and its impact at both micro and macro levels. This means the scientists research the impact of violence of and upon one individual and its causes (seen as an isolated case) and the impact of and upon large groups of individuals and their causes, which can be extended to a more general context and perhaps are more relevant to the society in general.
All bodies agree that violence and tension in their different forms and degrees can and will affect the fundamentals of any healthy society: education, culture, science, and communication. As new means of communication spread around the world, people are being exposed repeatedly to different expressions of violence being it physically (war, crime, riots, etc) or psychologically (pain, sufferance, death, etc).
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