1. Bullying
Bullying is the use of force, threat, or abuse, intimidate, or aggressively dominate others.
The behavior is often repeated and habitual. One essential prerequisite is the perception,
by the bully or by others, of an imbalance of social or physical power, which distinguishes
bullying from conflict. Behaviors used to assert such domination can include
verbal harassment or threat, physical assault or coercion, and such acts may be directed
repeatedly towards particular targets. Rationalizations for such behavior sometimes
include differences of social class, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, appearance,
behavior, body language, personality, reputation, lineage, strength, size or ability. If
bullying is done by a group, it is called mobbing.
3. Types
Individual bullying tactics can be perpetrated by a single person against a target or
targets.
Physical
This is any bullying that hurts someone’s body or damages their possessions. Stealing, shoving, hitting, fighting, and
destroying property all are types of physical bullying. Physical bullying is rarely the first form of bullying that a target will
experience. Often bullying will begin in a different form and progress to physical violence. In physical bullying the main
weapon the bully uses is their body.
Relational
This is any bullying that is done with the intent to hurt somebody’s reputation or social standing.
Cyber-bullying
This is any bullying that happens over any technological device. This includes email, instant messaging, social networking
sites (such as Facebook), text messages, and cell phones.
Collective
Collective bullying tactics are employed by more than one individual against a target or targets.
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Cyberbullying
Cyberbullying is any bullying done through the use of technology. This form of bullying can easily go undetected because of lack of parental/authoritative supervision. Because bullies can
pose as someone else, it is the most anonymous form of bullying. Cyberbullying includes, but is not limited to, abuse using email, instant messaging, text messaging, websites, social
networking sites, etc
Disability bullying
It has been noted that disabled people are disproportionately affected by bullying and abuse, and such activity has been cited as a hate crime.The bullying is not limited to those who are
visibly disabled, such as wheelchair-users or physically deformed such as those with a cleft lip, but also those with learning disabilities, such as autism and developmental coordination
disorder
Gay bullying
Gay bullying and gay bashing designate direct or indirect verbalor physical actions by a person or group against someone who is gay or lesbian, or perceived to be so due to rumors or
because they are considered to fit gay stereotypes. Gay and lesbian youth are more likely than straight youth to report bullying
Legal bullying
Legal bullying is the bringing of a vexatious legal action to control and punish a person. Legal bullying can often take the form of frivolous, repetitive, or burdensome lawsuits brought to
intimidate the defendant into submitting to the litigant's request, not because of the legal merit of the litigant's position, but principally due to the defendant's inability to maintain the legal
battle.
Sexual bullying
Sexual bullying is "any bullying behaviour, whether physical or non-physical, that is based on a person's sexuality or gender. It is when sexuality or gender is used as a weapon by males or
females towards others - although it is more commonly directed at females. It can be carried out to a person's face, behind their back or through the use of technology.
Workplace bullying
In academia
In blue collar jobs
In the legal profession
In medicine
In nursing
In teaching
In other areas
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Prevention
Bullying prevention is the collective effort to prevent, reduce, and stop bullying. Many campaigns and events are designated to bullying prevention throughout the world. Bullying
prevention campaign and events include: Anti-Bullying Day, Anti-Bullying Week,International Day of Pink, International STAND UP to Bullying Day, and National Bullying Prevention Month.
Anti-Bullying laws have also been enacted in 23 of the 50 states, making bullying in schools illegal
6. Facts About School Bullying
The NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) report reveals that:
1)There is noticeably more bullying in middle school (grades 6, 7, and 8) than in senior high school
2)Emotional bullying is the most prevalent type of bullying, with pushing/shoving/tripping/spitting on someone being second
3)Cyberbullying is – for the middle grade levels – the least prominent type of bullying, but it is greater in the last three years of high school than in grades 6–
9
4)Sixth graders were the most likely students to sustain an injury from bullying, with middle more likely to be injured than high school students and the
percentage going down every grade from 6 to 12
5)Victims of bullying display a range of responses, even many years later, such as:
Low self-esteem
Difficulty in trusting others
Lack of assertiveness
Aggression
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7. • Words cut deep
• Break the silence, speak out
against bullying.
• Bullying needs to stop.
• Keep your hands to yourself
• Stand together, you aren’t
alone!
• Words hurt!
• Words are weapon, they
can kill.
• There are better ways to
resolve it. Talk to someone
about it.
8. Thanks for your attention
David Migineishvili
Koba Kopadze
When you witness an oppression, you
are committing a crime by just watching
and staying aside!
