ETHICS AND VALUES , VIOLENCE AND TERRORISM

1. DEVAPRAKASAM DEIVASAGAYAM
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Room:11, LW, 2nd Floor
School of Mechanical and Building Sciences
Email: devaprakasam.d@vit.ac.in, dr.devaprakasam@gmail.com
HUM1721 - ETHICS AND VALUES
Devaprakasam D, Email: devaprakasam.d@vit.ac.in, Ph: +91 9786553933

3. Violence is defined by the World Health Organization
as the intentional use of physical force or power,
threatened or actual, against a person, or against a
group or community, that either results in or has a
high likelihood of resulting in injury, death,
psychological harm or deprivation.

4. Direct violence: The most visual form, hurting people
physically by war, beating people, abuse, mobbing, etc.
It can either be experienced yourself or seen on the
street but it can as well be ‘transmitted’ by movies,
games, etc.

6. Cultural violence makes direct and structural violence
look or feel "right," or at least not wrong, according to Galtung . The
study of cultural violence highlights the way in which the act of
direct violence and the fact of structural violence are legitimized and
thus made acceptable in society. One mechanism of cultural violence
is to change the "moral colour" of an act from "red/wrong" to
"green/right," or at least to "yellow/acceptable."

7. Self-directed violence:
Self-directed violence is subdivided into suicidal
behavior and self-abuse
Interpersonal violence:
Interpersonal violence is divided into two subcategories:
Family and intimate partner violence – that is, violence
largely between family members and intimate partners
Collective violence:
Collective violence is subdivided into social, political
and economic violence

8. • The first level identifies biological and personal factors that
influence how individuals behave and increase their likelihood
of becoming a victim or perpetrator of violence.
• The second level focuses on close relationships, such as those
with family and friends.
• The third level explores the community context—i.e., schools,
workplaces, and neighbourhood .
• The fourth level looks at the broad societal factors that help to
create a climate in which violence is encouraged or inhibited.

9. •Developing safe, stable and nurturing relationships between
children and their parents and caregivers.
•Developing life skills in children and adolescents
•Reducing the availability and harmful use of alcohol
•Reducing access to guns
•Promoting gender equality and challenging gender norms and
roles to prevent violence against women
•Changing cultural and social norms that support violence
•Victim identification, care and support program’s.

11. T E R R O R I S M

12. •“The systematic use of terror (such as bombings,
killings, and kidnappings) as a means of forcing some
political objective.
•It many be part of an overall effort to effect desired
political change.”

13. Is an unlawful act of violence
Intimidates governments or societies
Goal is to achieve political, religious or
ideological objectives

14. Ethnic Cleansing
Damage Infrastructure
Disrupt Normal Life
Direct Kill of an Enemy
Undermine Confidence In Government

15. ~Fertilizer Bombs
~Dynamite
~Semtex
~Automatic and Semi-automatic Pistols remain the
weapons of choice.
~American Stinger
~Russian SA-7 Hand-Held Anti-Aircraft missiles
~US Army Light Anti-tank Weapon (LAW)
~Russian RPG-7 Anti-Tank Weapon
~And Increasing Bombing Technologies

16. Terrorism is different from regular crime because of
its strong political properties
The definition of terrorism can vary from people to
people due to the differences in standpoint
One person’s terrorist can be another’s fighter

17. Primary prevention:
Education!!!
Understand the differences in cultures, religions,
beliefs and human behaviors
Think of the peace, freedom and equality of all
human beings, not just “my group of people”
Eliminate the root of terrorism

18. Establish surveillance and monitoring system on
terrorism attack.
Improve protective system for citizens
Tertiary prevention:
Early detection of the sources
Prevent the extension of impairments
Rescue the survivors
Console the rest of the population

19. •Firearms
•Explosive and Incendiary Devices
•Chemical Agents
•Biological Agents
•Nuclear Weapon

20. •Chemical agents kill or incapacitate people, destroy livestock
or ravage crops
•Some agents are odorless and tasteless
•They can have an immediate or a delayed effect

21. •Dispersal of microbes or their toxins to produce
illness, death and terror
•The paths of infection can be contaminated water,
food, air and packages.
•Microbes
Bacteria
Viruses
Toxins

22. •Spreading of radioactive materials through ventilation
system or explosion
•Disable nuclear reactor cooling system and cause leakage
of radioactive materials
•Detonate a nuclear weapon
•No use of nuclear material for non-military terrorism has
ever occurred

23. •Terrorism is unlawful act
•Terrorism has a long history of being used to achieve political,
religious and ideological objectives
•Terrorism can be conducted through firearms, explosive
devices and biological, chemical, nuclear materials
•Even through the events of 2001,the risk of dying from
terrorism has remained much lower than that from motor
vehicles, smoking, and alcoholic beverage.