Medical Peace Work Glossary
Terms are from the Medical Peace Work | Course 1 Health Workers, conflict and peace.
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Codes of conductThe moral principles that are implicit or explicit in (inter-) national codes and which reflect good clinical practice. | |
ConflctPerception of incompatible goals in a goal-seeking system. Conflict is not necessarily violent. In fact, parties who have incompatible goals may deal with them in productive and non-violent ways. | |
Contemporary conflictThe prevailing pattern of social and political conflicts at the beginning of the 21st century. | |
Cultural ViolenceCultural violence refers to those parts of religion, ideology, language, art, science, or cosmology which justify and legitimise the use of direct or structural violence (J. Galtung). | |