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Magallón, Carmen
2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Carmen Magallón on the trial against Baltasar Garzón
The internationally renowned Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón is standing trial, charged with having deliberately abused power during his investigation of crimes committed under Spain's Franco dictatorship. Carmen Magallón, writing in the leftist daily Público, sees this as a sign of lacking maturity in Spanish society: "Peace and human rights generally don't come at the same time. The establishment of peace, in the sense of an absence of war, does not always come simultaneously with justice, the revelation of the names and circumstances of the aggressors, the denouncement of impunity and the restitution of the truth for the victims. It takes time for the human rights that a mature society regards as the lowest common denominator for coexistence to establish themselves. The terrible thing about the trial against Garzón is that despite having donned the guise of disregarded legal formalities, what it really destroys is the search for the truth of victims who are still waiting for justice. This is an unfinished task about which there should be general agreement in this country after all these years. It is not right to give legal backing to those who represent the ideology of the aggressors of the past."
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The causes of violence
Violence against women is deeply rooted in our culture, writes peace researcher Carmen Magallón in left-wing daily Público. She uses the theory of sociologist Johan Galtung to explain the reasons for this violence: "Galtung's model facilitates understanding of the causal links between the three types of violence. These links flow in all directions, but the main one is that which flows between cultural violence and direct violence passing through structural violence. The symbolic devaluation of women (cultural violence) led in the course of history to a status of subjugation and marginalisation (structural violence) and this marginalisation and lack of power promoted their conversion into an object of physical abuse (direct violence). The slow pace of progress [in the fight against violence against women] can be explained by the profound character of the main, symbolic-cultural root of this violence."
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