Institutional and symbolic violence as antinomy of law: for non-violence as fundamental legal preceito

Abstract

This article aims to study the violence materialized through the acts of wars between nations and the actions of the State – at the national level – as a monopoly on public and institutional violence or said to be legitimate and authorized by the legal norm. Thus, we intend to analyze the types and forms of violence listed by the main political theorists in order to finally understand how nonviolence takes shape and foundations and tends to present itself as a social, legal and legitimately possible alternative as a factor in confronting state violence. With theoretical and methodological foundations in Hannah Arendt, Celso Lafer, Jean-Marie Muller, and Gene Sharp we aim to counter violence versus active and socially organized nonviolence.

Keywords

• violência estatal. guerras e violência. não-violência.