difference between structural and traumatic violence

Violence is experience all over the world in different types and form. Two types of violence are structural and traumatic violence. Structural violence is the result of the way government and economy status risk the different ways people in the country are suffering. Traumatic violence is an event or situation that happens to a person which are out of their control such as war. In structural violence the ones affected are those that are suffering from infections and parasitic disease. It also includes other type of suffering a hunger, torture, and rape. Those suffering are the result of poor political and economic structure. If there was better political and economic structure diseases such AIDS could be avoid or those infected could be treat properly. A perfect example of this Paul Farmer was exposed to while he was working in Haiti in 1993. In Haiti was attending AIDS patients, he observe that the poorest and less powerful Haitian are the one highly at risks to experience suffering of all kind. Traumatic violence are those events in were people suffer without any control in which they are not able to do anything. Such events could be like war, natural disaster or an event like 9/11 where no one had control over it. Those type of trauma violence also includes psychic, social, political, economic, and cultural factor which cause destroy a person psychological functioning and physical body. The difference between structural and traumatic violence is that structural violence an individual have some control over their situation but not the prospered political and economic structure to avoid or better their situation. And traumatic violence an individual doesn’t have any control over the traumatic event they have experienced. A traumatic event happens without any notice.