Abstract

Violence is directly and incidentally related to social justice. While in the first instance the relationship touches on the use of violence to achieve social justice, in the second, it has to do with how violence results from lack of social justice. The problem, however, is to understand the very nature of the relationship between violence and social justice. The objective of this paper is to show that violence and social justice are complex phenomena. Adopting descriptive and analytic methods, the paper shows that violence is rooted in injustice both in personal and social relationships. The paper argues to the conclusion that violence, as a human phenomenon, can only be eradicated if the psychological needs which promote violence are identified and properly addressed.