ABSTRACT
Of greater relevance to the direct effects upon developing areas is the analysis of post-Second World War military conflicts by Kende. The regionally focused studies highlight the significance of Kende’s and Pierre’s work which both treat the global consequences of arms transfers. While armed violence is violence exerted by persons against persons with the use of arms, structural violence is violence exerted by situations, institutions, social, political, and economic structures. The measurement of the number of persons killed through structural violence uses statistics of life expectancy. Structural violence is indirectly reinforced by the immediate diversion of economic resources on a vast and rising scale from the productive economy to what is aptly defined by Melman as a “parasitic” sector. The penetration of the present underdeveloped countries characterized by production sectors totally dependent on and determined by outside powers was only made possible by the use of arms, sometimes for many decades.
