Arts and Social Sciences Journal

Violence as an Emergent Property

Abstract

Yuki Nakamura

This paper argues that violence is an emergent property of the types of agents that constitute society. A categorization of the types of agents helps determine the social mechanisms and processes that prevent an appropriate understanding of violence. Introducing the concept of emergence allows an exploration of the different types of agents and emergent properties of violence that were elaborated and reproduced through social mechanisms and processes. The different aspects of violence and evil caused by the different types of agents are important issues that will be examined in order to solve the contradictions and misunderstandings that arise from the relationship between the types of evil doing and its relation to structural violence as an emergent property. Concepts that clarified the different types of emerging properties and the types of agents and its respective components were developed to shed light on the processes that gave rise to the issues that surround complex situations of violence