Systemic Violence is an umbrella concept encompassing various forms of structural and institutional oppression and discrimination that are embedded in social, political, and economic systems, and perpetrated through the maintenance of power within dominant groups. It manifests through policies and practices that exhibit structural inequalities, marginalization and exclusion of the most vulnerable in society, often based on intersecting identities such as race, ethnicity, gender, class, age, sexuality, and other social markers. Systemic violence is both persistent and multi-faceted, resulting in cumulative and disproportionate harms that persistently reinforce unequal distribution of resources and access to social goods along these identity lines.

See also: white supremacy, power relation, global south, global change