Popich's Colloquium On Violence And Religion

Michael Popich in his Colloquium on Violence and religion, “Is there Distributive Justice without Violence”, opines that the existence of human societies without justice is unthinkable; and commenting on the relationship between justice, conflict and violence, he states:
Distributive justice, where specifically imposed on human material conduct, may reduce or even eliminate economic conflict or violence at the observable of human interactions. However, the implementation or imposition of a distributive system of justice is not only an act of violence itself but that the working of such a system requires maintaining and re-distributing economic conflict or violence. The violence is merely re-named or re-described in such a way as to obscure the true nature of the activity sanctioned by secular systems of economic or distributive justice (Web 08/10/2016).
Though Popich believes that the promotion of justice does reduce the amount of conflict or violence which otherwise characterizes human interactions, nevertheless, he maintains that the reduction of violence does not …show more content…
Plato cited in Ayeni stresses that “Justice is a necessary condition for peace, as justice can be seen to be present when each part performs its own special function properly; and that resources are shared having in mind the philosophy of treating equals equally and unequals unequally” (Web 10/07/2016). This position of Plato on the interconnectedness of justice, equality and peace is further elaborated by Ayeni