Role of violence in our lives and the lives of others

1. Non Violence for Peace
Role of violence in our lives and
the lives of others
By
M.VIJAYALAKSHMI
Assistant Professor

2. Unit – 2: Non Violence for Peace
2.1 Relationship between peace and Non
violence
2.2 Role of violence in our lives and the lives of
others
2.3 Exposure to Non violence through media
2.4 Consequences-Crisis and the management-
Factors that influence non- violence.

3. Unit – 2: Non Violence for Peace
2.2 Role of violence in our lives
and the lives of others

4. • Each year, over 1.6 million people worldwide
lose their lives to violence
• People aged 15-44 years
• 14% of deaths among males
• 7% of deaths among females
• Violence becomes massive burden on
national economics, law enforcement and
lost productivity
• Young person’s – harmed by violence
• Protective factors – prevent violence in and
outside of school

5. • United States Department of Health
and Human Service, 2001
• Recent research indentifies –
individual – influenced either
positively or negatively – by any
combination of factors or how these
factors interact

6. • Violence
• Children
• Affects at multiple levels
• Attacking individuals,
communities and systems and
weakening their sense of agency

7. • Center for the Prevention of School
Violence (2002) –
• Any behaviour that violates a
school’s educational mission or
climate of respect or jeopardizes the
intent of the school to be free of
aggression against persons or
property, drugs, weapons,
disruptions and disorder

8. • Students and staff need to feel safe in school
in order to concentrate on education and
learning
• Violent acts are varied and have been
identified as major barriers to learning
(Centre for Management of Health Services
(CMHS), 1999)
• Today teachers complain about increasing
disciplinary problems in schools

9. • Public criticizes the youth whom we
produce at schools as insensitive to
the problems of society, selfish,
narrow minded, lacking in
intellectual depth and susceptible to
the violent and corrupt social
pressures
• The excellence of a few students
cannot make up for the rest

10. • Schools are “Controlled Institutions”
• The problem of violence in schools – related
problem of violence in society
• School personnel – teachers, guidance
counselors, administrators, and psychologist
– can help counteract ignorance about
nonviolence that exists at all levels of society
by teaching alternatives to violence
• Adopt positions of tolerance for weapons,
crime, violence or bullying

11. • Schools and communities –
create positive, healthy and
safe environment
• Besides, violence will cause
some health hazards which
will suppress the
development of human
beings

12. • They are:
• Injuries
• Death
• Sexual and reproductive health
• Risky behaviours
• Mental health
• Physical health

13. Sources are taken from
•Slidesharenet.com
•Web sources