Editing Structural violence (section)

===Cultural violence===
{{See also|Cultural conflict|Cultural genocide}}
Cultural violence refers to aspects of a [[culture]] that can be used to justify or legitimize direct or structural violence, and may be exemplified by religion & ideology, language & art, and [[empirical science]] & [[formal science]].<ref name=":8">Galtung, Johan. 1990. "[https://www.galtung-institut.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Cultural-Violence-Galtung.pdf Cultural Violence]." ''[[Journal of Peace Research]]'' 27(3):291–305.</ref>

Cultural violence makes both direct and structural violence look or feel 'right', or at least not wrong, according to Galtung.<ref name=":8" />{{Rp|291}} The study of cultural violence highlights the ways the act of direct violence and the fact of structural violence are legitimized and thus made acceptable in society. Galtung explains that one mechanism of cultural violence is to change the "moral color" of an act from "red/wrong" to "green/right," or at least to "yellow/acceptable."<ref name=":8" />{{Rp|292}}