that contributed to the violence in the first place, or, as Johann Galtung refers to this, structural violence. As we and … others have noted, changing the social structure to eliminate the attributes that contributed to the onset of violence is …

This paper attempts to account for cross-national and cross-temporal patterns of government action on violence against …. Between 1975 and 2005, an international norm developed treating violence against women as a fundamental question of human …, countries that adopted policies on violence against women later were more influenced by international norms than were early …