Prevention and combating cyber bullying and internet violence among youth

Prevention and combating cyber bullying and internet violence among youth
– manual for youth workers –
you are going to read a series of case studies to help them think about different meanings and
types of violence.
Definitions of violence:
‣ Physical violence: is the use of physical force such as hitting, slapping, or pushing.
‣ Emotional/Psychological violence: is often the most difficult form of violence to
identify. It may include humiliating, threatening, insulting, pressuring, and expressing
jealousy or possessiveness such as controlling decisions and activities.
‣ Sexual violence: involves pressuring or forcing someone to perform sexual acts (from
touching to kissing to sex) against their will or making sexual comments that make
someone feel humiliated or uncomfortable. It does not matter if there has been prior
consenting sexual behaviour.
‣ Cyberbullying: the activity of using the internet to harm or frighten another person,
especially by sending them unpleasant messages. 3
Violence is also often categorized according to the victim-perpetrator relationship: 4
Self-directed violence refers to violence in which the perpetrator and the victim are the
same individual and is subdivided into self-abuse and suicide.
Interpersonal violence refers to violence between individuals, and is subdivided into
family and intimate partner violence and community violence. The former category
includes child maltreatment; intimate partner violence; and elder abuse, while the latter
is broken down into acquaintance and stranger violence and includes youth violence;
assault by strangers; violence related to property crimes; and violence in workplaces
and other institutions.
Collective violence refers to violence committed by larger groups of individuals and
can be subdivided into social, political and economic violence.
These definitions can be written on flipchart paper. Remember to save this flipchart paper since
it will be useful for some of the workshops following this one.
STEP 2 – Discussion on differently types of violence (60 minutes together with discussion
and conclusion part)
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Definition by Cambridge Dictionary
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Text taken from https://www.who.int/violenceprevention/approach/definition/en/
Last accessed on 23/06/2018.
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