section_path: Types
section_name: Types
paragraph_text: Types
  
  The World Health Organization divides violence into three broad categories:
  
  This initial categorization differentiates between violence that a person inflicts upon themself, violence inflicted by another individual or by a small group of individuals, and violence inflicted by larger groups such as states, organized political groups, militia groups and terrorist organizations.
  
  Alternatively, violence can primarily be classified as either instrumental or reactive / hostile.