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Klaus Melf, Stefi Barna_, Stefi Barna, gabriella arcadu, and Lena Weng

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  • Working in a
  • Responding to a
  • Preparing for the
  • The forms that violence can take: direct, structural, and cultural
  • The hierarchies of violence: collective, interpersonal, and self-induced
  • The levels at which violence takes place: mega, macro, meso, and micro
  • How to prevent all these forms of violence

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