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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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