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Indigenous Lateral Violence


What is lateral violence?

Definition: Lateral violence

Lateral violence is a term that describes the way people in positions of powerlessness, covertly or overtly direct their dissatisfaction inward toward each other, toward themselves, and toward those less powerful than themselves.



Source: Bullying & lateral violence - Creative Spirits, retrieved from https://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/people/bullying-lateral-violence


 


 


 


 






 


 

 





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