Galtung has called the September 11 attacks "criminal political violence".

Domestic abuse is also called intimate partner violence or domestic violence.

But my father's words come back to me when I think about today's world: Kids with guns, teen-age pregnancies, what we call random violence.

"When a woman's husband beat her, sometimes to death, it was called 'domestic violence.'"

The report called violence "a worldwide scourge and a massive human rights and health challenge."

The gathering was also intended to protest what the participants called increased violence against residents of the predominantly Jewish neighborhood.

"The middle class would probably call it reprehensible violence, but from the revolutionary point of view it is part of the struggle."

But it depends on what you would call violence.

Suited in the darkwave corner, last pleasure was recognized in the public, when they came up with a track called 'peace and violence'.

We have seen the fallout from that in what is euphemistically called "inter-communal violence".