Som at noget lettede:strukturel vold og unge i Paamiut i Kalaallit Nunaat

• Main Authors: Berliner, Peter, Glendøs, Mia
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Danish
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Vold; Inuit; deltagelse; Grønland; Violence; partcipation; Greenland; Paamiut; inuit; kalaallit; Kalaallit Nunaat
• Online Access: https://pure.au.dk/portal/da/publications/som-at-noget-lettede(7267bc20-b418-11df-b21e-000ea68e967b).html

Den høje voldsrate i Kalaallit Nunaat (Grønland) forklares ofte ud fra alkoholmisbrug og affektive handlinger. I denne artikel vises det gennem en kvantitativ og kvalitativ undersøgelse, at den episodiske vold må forstås som symptomer på strukturel vold. Den strukturelle vold er en kontekst, der fremmer følelser af magtesløshed, social isolation, undgåelse af konflikter og undertrykkelse af følelser - indtil de eksploderer i konkret vold. Den strukturelle vold både legitimerer og forstår den konkrete vold, men den åbner også for interventioner, der kan ændre netop den strukturelle vold. Den strukturelle vold er skadelig for unge, da den fremmer og legitimerer vold - men lokal funderede interventioner kan modvirke dette på en virkningsfuld måde. Structural Violence and Youth in Paamiut in Kalaallit Nunaat The high level of direct violence in Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) is often seen as a symptom of alcohol abuse and thus as affective, spontaneous events. Through empirical quantitative data and phenomenological analysis of qualitative interviews, it is found that episodic violence is seen a symptoms of structural violence. This structural violence is seen as a context that promotes feelings of powerlessness, social isolation, conflict avoidance and suppression of emotions - until they explode in incidents of violence. It is shown how this understanding both legitimate violence and opens for an interventions aiming at changing the structural violence. Finally it is shown that the structural violence is harmful to young people as it promotes violence - but that a community-based intervention can counteract this in an effective manner.