Discriminations Created by the Structural Violence (Case Study of the Tea Plantation Sector of Sri Lanka)

Type Journal Article
Title Discriminations Created by the Structural Violence (Case Study of the Tea Plantation Sector of Sri Lanka)
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Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2014
URL http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2504897
Abstract
Structural violence is the invisible violence, created by various socio-political or legal structures which are being deeply rooted in the society. The study reveals the structural violence and its impact in the plantation sector, due to number of socio, economic and political factors. In one hand plantation labour community has been discriminated socially, politically, and economically. On the other hand historically, the plantation labours has been maintained through a well organized system of labour control with a chain of commands. This system of interdependence was organized and run on the basis of caste, class gender and ethnic differentiation. This rigid chain was of command across the labour regime was maintained by symbolic and physical means of separation and differentiation, a system which still continues albeit with some differences. All of these factors dominate the entire deep structure in the plantation sector, but invisibly or unconsciously. This major contradiction comes to the visible surface level as many issues from time to time. When finding solutions for these issues, attention always draws to the nearer factors of a particular issue other than addressing the root causes. Anyway this study suggests the changes in this violent structure so as to achieve a sustainable peace.

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