International Research Journal of Education and Technology

The typology of interpersonal violence, a method to categorize different kinds of acts of aggression, whether performed individually or collectively, categorizes coordinated destruction as the highest kind, both in the degree of coordination and the degree of destruction.  The use of violence by salient actors, who otherwise, in their daily lives are peaceful and non-violent, can be influenced by several factors. The motivating factor behind the use of violence for a Naxalite is a conscious response to difference, in order to eliminate it. However, it is indeed illusory, as violence cannot eliminate the difference as such, as much as it eliminates the person himself. Similarly, the ideas themselves can be replaced by ideas alone and a person subscribing to the idea can merely carry the idea, which becomes redundant by the use of violence as it eliminates the very process of a meaningful dialogue between actors, and hence, the possibility of an amicable settlement.