Toward education for Active Nonviolence - Free Training Tuesday November 4 -Institute Max Weber Posted by Anne Farrell on October 30, 2014 In 2002, the World Health Organization publish the « World report on violence and health ». This report on violence and health was the first comprehensive review of the problem of violence on a global scale. The report estimated that in the 20th century 191 million people lost their lives directly or indirectly as a result of conflict. The report also found that about 40 per cent of 13 year old across 35 countries have fought, have bullied others or have been victims of bullying. The number of young people who have witness various form of school violence climb to more than 90 per cent. A decade after the first worldwide report we are seeing that violence is more and more rooted in our everyday life. These forms of normalized violence accumulate inside people: in the body as tensions, and in the mind as painful memories. Its seem urgent to develop nonviolent alternatives and to launch networks of communities groups working in cooperation. The Global status report on violence prevention (GSRVP) publish a the Worldwide report « Why Childrens Protection from Violence should be at the Heart of the Post-2015 Development Agenda » earlier this month. The report involved numerous consultations on the future United Nations sustainable development goals. More than 800,000 children around the world were involved in the consultations. According to UN specialist children rank protection from violence as the second highest development priority, immediately after education. It doest takes any special training to recognize physical violence, which is crude and obvious. However, many kinds of invisible violence accumulate in our lives, and we don’t usually think of them as violence. For example, our needs for affection, participation and meaning are often frustrated at work, at school, or at home. These needs are not considered important in our culture. This is not something people talk about in their institutions or in the media. No one talks about the human need to be treated and to treat others with care and affection; the need to participate in making the decisions that touch our lives; the need for what we do to be some how meaningful. The focus of education for Nonviolence shed some light on the hidden causes of this collective predisposition to violence that is growing around the world, and find ways to prevent more violence. Culture of Solidarity and Nonviolence According to Juan J. Pescio and Patricia A. Nagy Toward a Culture of Solidarity and Nonviolence, authors Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2002. Nonviolence training is introducing a process of development to carried out action on three levels simultaneously; thus the term “Three-Level Change,” putting emphasis on the simultaneously factor. The authors talk about the “builders” of stable environments through Nonviolence and solidarity on three levels: institutional, socio-community, and personal. This approach is the result of a process of research and action on the causes of violence, with the intention of overcoming such causes at their root. The authors are proposing a process based on the Methodology of Active Nonviolence developed by New Humanist and on the contributions of many developers of a nonviolent, caring and cooperative human community. This kind of training is directed toward all those who are not resigned to living in these conditions of external and internal violence; to all those who want to do something to overcome the hidden and explicit violence in their institutions, their community, and inside themselves. Three levels & fields of violence Violence is complex and difficult to eradicate. Education for Active nonviolence is approaching the roots of violence from a variety of personal, environmental and global factors. The trainees are invited to played an active roles and to look at their own experience by helping others to overcome violence. The training put emphasis on factors to eliminate the causes of violence that are made “invisible” by custom – those causes which, according to the authors working hypothesis, result in expressing physical violence. 1-Personal factors : tensions, lack of self-esteem, impulsiveness, compulsions, frustration, painful memories, contradictions, the absence of a meaning in life. 2-Factors of our relationship with our environment : individualism, competition, resentments, isolation, lack of communication in the family, at work, at school, social fragmentation, limited condition (food, shelter, education, health services). 2-Factors of the Global System : Dehumanizing social values, unreachable models of « happiness », the cult of celebrities, social injustice, discrimination, loss of cultural roots, wars, terrorism, financial crisis. Active for Nonviolence deals with theses three fields of violence and the factors that influence them. For this reason education Active Nonviolence is ideal for educators, community leaders and well as NGO members who wish to educate the communities they serve. In theses workshop the participant will develop strategies to modify situations of violence that arise in their own lives and will discuss what changes are necessary in immediate environment and in the global system to lead to a non-violent society. 1-Personal : personal experience of violence; registers. Learning non-violent problem solving strategies : relaxation, breathing, boby postures. Personal virtues : self-esteem (seeing qualities in oneself and others) and coherence (feel, think and act). 2-Environment : Valid actions (Empathy and inner reference), non-discrimination, recognition of others peoples virtues. Communication and self organization for the development of projects for social change. Solidarity and reciprocity. 3-Global : studying forms of violence in the world. The humanization of the system values and institution communication. Convergence of diversity through an international networking promoting nonviolent alternatives & nonviolent conflict resolution. Juan J. Pescio is now offering spanish e-learning inroduction course on Nonviolence at the « Instituto De Educacion Superior Max Weber » Argentina. Students can subscribe free of charge on website at : imwonline.org/course/ciudades-violentas-una-transformaci... - The training will be given in spanish and will start on Tuesday November 4. Participant can download material for the Unit 1 (80 pages - activities & survey). ------------------------------------------------------------------- See more at : who.int/violence_injury_prevention (World report on violence and health) See more at: srsg.violenceagainstchildren.org/story/2014-10-16_1155#sthas... (Why Childrens Protection from Violence should be at the Heart of the Post-2015 Development Agenda)
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