[DSRP Evidence](https://dsrpevidence.org/)

# Developing an Understanding of Violence using the DSRP Theory as a Framework

MacGill, 2016, Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the ISSS, Boulder CO — Systems Science

Patterns: [Distinctions](https://dsrpevidence.org/pattern/distinctions), [Systems](https://dsrpevidence.org/pattern/systems), [Relationships](https://dsrpevidence.org/pattern/relationships), [Perspectives](https://dsrpevidence.org/pattern/perspectives)

## In short

Applies DSRP as the analytic frame to redefine violence in systems terms, deriving the definition from boundary-setting in distinctions and tracing systems, relationships and perspectives through othering and Galtung's violence typology.

## What they found (results)

Proposes that violence is the invasion or disruption of a boundary, latent in all complex systems and fractal from individual to global scale.

## What they set out to do (purpose)

A conference paper by Victor MacGill analyzing violence through DSRP, defining it structurally as the invasion of a boundary, the disruption of a flow across one, or the willful ignoring of either.

These researchers were not testing DSRP. The finding is theirs; the correspondence to DSRP is drawn by this site.

[Source](https://journals.isss.org/index.php/proceedings60th/article/view/2854)