This document discusses violence and its effects. It defines violence as acts intended to hurt people, and lists different forms like physical, verbal, emotional, sexual, and economic abuse. It notes that violence can be perpetrated by individuals, groups, states, or the environment. The effects of violence are psychological/emotional like depression or fear, physical like injury, and social like distorted values. The document also discusses how violence is often intergenerationally transmitted as children who witness abuse learn that it is a normal way to resolve conflicts. It concludes that breaking this cycle requires practicing non-violent child discipline.

1. Collective Action to Promote Non-Violent and
Protective Society for Children
Understanding Violence

2. Collective Action to Promote Non-Violent and
Protective Society for Children
What is Violence?
 It is generally defined as an act committed with
the deliberate or perceived intention of hurting
another person
 An act or state whereby pain, fear or
degradation is inflicted on a person by another
 Action/state of omission/commission
 Feelings: hurt, pained, low/down, afraid,
shamed, terrified, anger.

3. Collective Action to Promote Non-Violent and
Protective Society for Children
Different forms of abuse/violence:
 Physical
 Verbal
 Emotional/Psychological
 Sexual (incestuous, marital rape)
 Economic

4. Collective Action to Promote Non-Violent and
Protective Society for Children
Perpetrators of violence/abuse
 Person to person
 Group to group
 Person to group
 Group to person
 State to person/group
 Person to environment

5. Collective Action to Promote Non-Violent and
Protective Society for Children
Effects of
Violence/Abus
e
Psychological/Emotional
- shame - avoidance
- depression - rage
- fear/afraid - anxiety
- low self esteem
Economic
- property/ies
destroyed/damaged
- loss of livelihood
- work/s hampered
- medical expenses
Physical
- injury
- numbness
- fatigue
- functional
impairment
- permanent
disability
- loss of appetite
- chronic pain
syndrome
Social
- self concept
/outlook
- distorted values
- the world is
unkind
- blaming self
- attitude towards
authority and
work
- dependent on
decision-making
- abusive behavior

6. Collective Action to Promote Non-Violent and
Protective Society for Children
Cycle of Violence
Woman’s
condition
during
pregnancy
Childhood
experiences
(all settings)
Affects:
child’s
values,
concepts,
behavior
Batterer
(perpetrator)
/battered
(victim)

7. Collective Action to Promote Non-Violent and
Protective Society for Children
Inter-generational transmission of patterns of violence
 Patterns of violence are perpetuated from one generation to
the next through role modeling and social learning (cultural)
– it is not and never be transmitted through gens.
 Children learn the distorted view that violence is a way to
resolve conflict and a natural part of intimate relationships.
 Exposure to violence in early stage of childhood is “a
significant factor in the development of violent behavior,
and it is associated with other problems in childhood and in
later life.” (World Report on Violence and Health 2002)
 Women who grew up in violent homes are 50% more likely
to expect or accept violence in their own relationship.

8. Collective Action to Promote Non-Violent and
Protective Society for Children
End the cycle of violence.
Practice non-violent approach
in child discipline