Violence and Aggressive Behaviour - Anthropological Perspective

Aggression is inherent to all human beings and I will presume that it represents individual, physical and psychological reactions to mostly but not exclusively negative emotions, irritations, fear, humiliation, provocation or environmental factors such as: pollution, noise, lack of intimacy, heath, etc. When aggressive aspirations are aroused, an individual’s metabolic and cognitive functions, functions of the nerve-system and other bodily functions are accelerated. In many cases the individual’s behaviour also changes. Aggression can be introverted or extraverted and expressed through various ways, which are not necessarily harmful to other individuals or groups. One of the possible forms of expressing aggression is violence. 

Violence is a form of individual, group or institution actions causing physical, psychological or material harm to other individuals, groups or institutions. Similarly, violence can also be introverted or extraverted. Violence does not necessarily denote aggressive behaviour and can be affected or systematic (planned). Thus violence can be divided into individual, group, institutional and institutionalised (violence regulated with conventions and rules) violence that can appear in latent or transparent forms.