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Systemic Critique Project

The Systemic Critique Project  aims to deepen and popularize a human rights-based understanding of the dominant socio-economic system characterized by capitalism. Guided by grassroots struggles, the project will inform ESCR-Net strategies and shared alternatives to make human rights and social justice a reality for all. It will also support a growing number of members and allies to understand the structures and conditions obstructing human rights as a basis for building solidarity and collective action.

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Building Shared Systemic Critique: Advancing Political Education
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Political Economy of Violence

The Political Economy of Violence (PEV) provides a critical lens to understand how contemporary global economic systems are built and maintained. As described by ESCR-Net, the PEV constitutes a structural web in which corporate interests, political elites, financial institutions, state security forces, and criminal actors converge to impose extractive projects at the expense of collective rights, territory, and ultimately the right to life.

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