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Violence in Society - Audio is a society podcast hosted by UCL. It has 1 episodes, with the latest published July 2009.

Nobel Laureate Professor Amartya Sen addressed a full UCL Bloomsbury Theatre on the theme of violence in society on 2 June as the climax of the 2009 UCL Global Citizenship series.Professor Sen gave a stimulating and challenging lecture, which exploredideas around ‘organised violence’ (war, genocide, terrorism) and violenceagainst the individual.Highlighting the inadequacies of some of the widely accepted explanations for violence as a phenomenon - including the idea that the world is experiencing a ‘clash of civilisations’ - Professor Sen made a plea for aglobal, multilateral debate on the causes of violence, and on ways in which governments, the media and educators might work together to address these effectively.

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