What is Violence?

While mainstream polemic is astonished with the extent of violence in our region (the region in a broader sense, including post-Soviet space and the Middle East), we would argue that it never left in the first place. Violence is an inalienable phenomenon of social relations. What has been absent in our part of the world is the deeper reflection, elaboration, and reassessment of the limited conceptions of violence is and our positioning towards it.

In this webinar, Christina Soloyan and Lala Darchinova will be discussing the wide range of violence that we encounter in social life, different approaches to the nature of violence, and war — as the worst manifestation of violence.