Addressing Structural Violence and Injustice

Paul Farmer believes it is crucial to address the systemic and structural issues/conditions that cause suffering because uncovering those corrupt power structures can enable us to address them and better understand the ways in which these structures…

Tools For Change Critical Reflection

In the chapter “Suffering and Structural Violence” by Paul Farmer, Farmer addresses the importance of recognizing the systemic and structural issues that cause suffering. He does this by pointing out

“While certain kinds of suffering are…

Government Issues

Farmer believes that it is important to talk about the systematic and structural issues related to conditions that cause suffering because many third world countries such as Haiti are living in poverty due to the lack of the government addressing critical issues that are deep inside the…

CR 6: Structure

What:

Farmer believes it is crucial to address the system and structural issues that causes suffering because he believes that structural violence causes more damage than a “century’s worth of sorcery” (pg. 28).

“structural violence damages and…

Poverty and Its Difficulties

What? Farmer believes it is crucial to address the systemic and structural issues and conditions that cause suffering because doing so will allow us to discern the “causes of extreme suffering and also the forces that put some at risk for human rights abuses” (50). In a way…

Systemic/Structural Issues of Suffering and Accompaniment

What?Farmer believes it is crucial to address the systemic and structural issues and conditions that cause suffering because we become able to identify the worst assaults — “those most at risk of great suffering,” and in turn…

Factual vs. Fictional (Critical Reflection #6)

What?

In Paul Farmer’s book Pathologies of Power under the chapter “Suffering and Structural Violence,” Farmer emphasizes the importance of addressing both systemic and structural issues that cause suffering. As he opens…

Support in Suffering

‘Bearing Witness,” like ‘solidarity’ and ‘compassion,’ is a term worth rehabilitating. . . Bearing witness is done on behalf of others, for their sake of others…no matter how great the pain of bearing witness, it will never be as great as the pain of those who endure, whether in silence or…