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NEWMAN ASSOCIATION NEWS (January 2010)
This newsletter is based on the Council meeting on 12th December but has been delayed until details of the Birmingham Conference in June could be finalised.
The Fall of the Berlin Wall-20th Anniversary Moving into a new Europe
Personal testimonies of the revolutionary events of 1989 were given by Barbara Coudenhove-Kalergi an Austrian journalist and Jozsef Szikora from Hungarian Radio during a joint Newman Association/ Pax Romana (Europe) conference held at High Leigh Conference Centre last weekend to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Barbara described the events in different Eastern European countries leading up to the fall of the Wall and Jozsef talked about the difficulties in his early professional life caused by not being a member of the Hungarian Communist Party. Brian Hanrahan of the BBC gave an exciting account of his efforts to film events in East Germany in 1989 and brought us up to date with his visit earlier in the week to the 20th anniversary celebrations in Berlin.
Transformación estructural y coherencia personal
La problemática de la violencia estructural surge desde diversos lugares del mundo. En América Latina, la incorporación de los aspectos estructurales de la realidad ha sido muy común. Hay una tradición intelectual y política de varias décadas que trata de explicar la pobreza y la desigualdad entre las personas poniendo el acento en las estructuras económicas y políticas vigentes. La perspectiva estructuralista de análisis de la realidad tenía diversas corrientes y acentos temáticos. La situación de violencia se caracteriza por la miseria y el desamparo en el que viven las familias y a ello se le añade un rasgo especialmente latinoamericano por su magnitud: la gran desigualdad social y regional. Todos esos rasgos juntos han hecho posible caracterizar la situación como injusta y es a esa situación de injusticia que se le ha denominado violencia institucionalizada.
Office Barres 2008 -2012
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| President: Mr. Javier Iguíñiz (Peru) |
Structural Transformation and Personal Coherence
In recent years, the problem of structural violence has developed in various parts of the world. In Latin America, it has become common over the last several decades to incorporate reflection on such structural dimensions into social analysis. This has been part of an intellectual tradition which seeks to explain poverty and inequality by stressing the role played by economic and political structures. Such a structural perceptive in social analysis certainly includes various schools of thought. This reality of violence is characterized by misery and unemployment which especially affects families. On top of this, the reality in Latin America is characterized by an additional feature: great social and regional inequalities. All of these features make it possible to characterize a situation injustice, a situation of institutionalized violence.
