Galtung’s first challenge is to broaden the understanding of our everyday notions of violence i.e. - the direct, deliberate physical harm by one actor towards another. Galtung argues that such a notion of violence would be very restrictive – if peace was simply the absence of harm imposed directly on people, then many highly inequitable societies could not be challenged. Galtung suggests that violence exists when an individual’s ‘realization’ (i.e. the extent of their progress and general experience of life) is much lower than that of their potential (i.e. what they could have achieved without any restraints). Thus, if somebody in a highly developed country died due to tuberculosis today in their thirties, Galtung suggests their death is a violent one – the result of resources been inequitably mobilised to meet their needs. Galtung notes: