Violence

War is an armed conflict between the armed forces of states, or between governmental forces and armed groups that are organized under a certain command structure and have the capacity to sustain military operations, or between such organized groups.

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Violence is characterized as the use of physical force by humans to cause harm to other living beings, such as pain, injury, disablement, death, damage and destruction. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines violence as "the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, which either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment, or deprivation"; it recognizes the need to include violence not resulting in injury or death.

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thumb|upright=1.1|Captured Viet Cong soldier, blindfolded and tied in a [[stress position by American forces during the Vietnam War, 1967]]

Combat is a purposeful violent conflict between multiple combatants with the intent to harm the opposition. Combat may be armed (using weapons) or unarmed (not using weapons). Combat is resorted to either as a method of self-defense or to impose one's will upon others. An instance of combat can be a standalone confrontation or part of a wider conflict, and its scale can range from a fight between individuals to a war between organized groups. Combat may also be benign and recreational, as in the cases of combat sports and mock combat.

A pogrom is a violent riot incited with the aim of massacring or expelling an ethnic or religious group, usually applied to attacks on Jews. The term entered the English language from Russian to describe late 19th- and early 20th-century attacks on Jews in the Russian Empire (mostly within the Pale of Settlement). Retrospectively, similar attacks against Jews which occurred in other times and places were renamed pogroms. Contemporarily, the word is also used to describe publicly sanctioned purgative attacks against non-Jewish groups. The characteristics of a pogrom vary widely, depending on th

upright|thumb|Depiction of French President Armand Fallieres's assault by a waiter named Jean Mattis thumb|upright|Many mammals, such as the tiger, bare their teeth as a sign of aggression—a form of [[aposematism. ]]

various ways of displacing or exterminating human beings from another ethnic group from a territory

thumb|Mahatma Gandhi, often considered a founder of the modern nonviolence movement, spread the concept of [[ahimsa through his movements and writings, which then inspired other nonviolent activists.]]

use of excessive force by a police officer

A feud , also known in more extreme cases as a blood feud, vendetta, faida, clan war, gang war, private war, or mob war, is a long-running argument or fight, often between social groups of people, especially families or clans. Feuds begin because one party perceives itself to have been attacked, insulted, injured, or otherwise wronged by another. Intense feelings of resentment trigger an initial retribution, which causes the other party to feel greatly aggrieved and vengeful. The dispute is subsequently fueled by a long-running cycle of retaliatory violence. This continual cycle of provocation

thumb|right|upright=1.2|link=Warsaw Ghetto boy|In his Stroop Report|report on the suppression of the [[Warsaw Ghetto uprising, Jürgen Stroop described Jews resisting deportation to Nazi camps as "bandits".]] thumb|Lynndie England pulling a leash attached to the neck of a prisoner in Abu Ghraib prison, who is forced to crawl on the floor, while [[Megan Ambuhl watches, 2003.]]

thumb|225px|A cheetah strangling an [[impala, Timbavati Game Reserve, South Africa]] Strangling or strangulation is the compression of the neck leading to an increasingly hypoxic state in the brain, which can lead to unconsciousness or even death. Fatal strangulation typically occurs in cases of violence, accidents, and is one of two main ways that hanging causes death (alongside breaking the victim's neck).

latin proverb

disorderly, violent or destructive behaviour perpetrated by spectators at association football events

social group that advocates hatred or violence towards members of a race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, or other group

a film that depicts murder for the express purpose of distribution and entertainment or financial exploitation

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aggressive or angry behavior in road traffic

threat to kill

Democide, or populicide, refers to "the intentional killing of an unarmed or disarmed person by government agents acting in their authoritative capacity and pursuant to government policy or high command". The term, coined by Holocaust historian and statistics expert R. J. Rummel in his book Death by Government, has been described by renowned Holocaust historian Yehuda Bauer as a better term than genocide to refer to certain types of mass killing. According to Rummel, this definition covers a wide range of deaths, including forced labor and concentration camp victims, extrajudicial summary kill

violence practiced in the name of religion

violence between school students as well as violence by students on school staff

thumb|Child having a tantrum thumb|"Christina Rossetti in a Tantrum" by her brother, [[Dante Gabriel Rossetti]] A tantrum, conniption, angry outburst, temper tantrum, lash out, meltdown, fit of anger, or hissy fit is an emotional outburst, usually associated with those in emotional distress. It is typically characterized by stubbornness, crying, screaming, violence, defiance, angry ranting, a resistance to attempts at pacification, and in some cases, hitting or bullying and other physically violent behavior. Physical control may be lost; the person may be unable to remain still; and even if th

confrontation among two or more parties in which no participant can proceed or retreat without being exposed to danger

form of abuse characterized by a person intentionally inflicting bodily harm or injury on another

thumb|Forensic pathology|Police surgeon's drawing showing the mutilated body of [[Catherine Eddowes, Jack the Ripper's fourth canonical victim, as discovered on September 30, 1888]]

collective name of experiments conducted by Albert Bandura in 1961 and 1963 when he studied children's behavior after watching an adult model act aggressively towards a Bobo doll (a toy that gets up by itself when knocked down)

form of violence wherein some social structure or social institution may harm people by preventing them from meeting their basic needs

criminal offense of making hostile physical contact

ancient Egyptian term

violence between ethnic or other communal groups

act of violence by at least one member of an unmarried couple on the other member within the context of dating or courtship

personality disorder diagnosis involving sadism

A type of hand-to-hand combat

type of violence

crime in which an offender uses or threatens force upon a victim

islamic views on violence

exercising authority over persons or property by means of physical force

proverb found in Matthew 26:52

broadly defined as violence committed with the use of a gun

personification of Outrage in Greek mythology

any solid object used as a weapon

criminal action or civil resistance involving throwing rocks

aestheticization of bodily harm

depiction of especially vivid, brutal and realistic acts of violence in visual media

force that a person knows would create a substantial risk of causing, death or serious bodily harm or injury

thumb|300x300px|Ernest Meissonier, The Brawl, 1855

issue in anarchism

violence of a government against its citizens

repeated and dangerous acts of violence as a cyclical pattern

term coined by the 20th-century French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu

phrase about violence

crime that is committed while streaming video live

violence, usually in the form of physical abuse or threat, that creates a risk to the health and safety of employees

sociological concept coined by Émile Durkheim

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1980s underground film movement in the Soviet Union