Cyber violence and the antidote of cyber safety are fast becoming a global concern for governments, educational authorities, teachers, parents and children alike. Despite substantial funding for information dissemination on preventative strategies and the development of electronic responses to hinder perpetrators, the phenomenon of cyber violence has received little attention in the educational...

BACKGROUND Violence by young people is one of the most visible forms of violence and contributes greatly to the global burden of premature death, injury and disability. METHODS The Global School-based Student Health Survey (GSHS), State of Lara, Venezuela (GSHS-Lara) is a school-based surveillance system. It comprises a repeated, cross-sectional, self-administered survey drawn from a represen...

Individual level risk factors for violence have been widely studied, but little is known about country-level determinants, particularly in low and middle-income countries. We hypothesized that income inequality, through its detrimental effects on social cohesion, would be related to an increase in violence worldwide, and in low and middle-income countries in particular. We examined country-leve...

Interpersonal violent acts are a worldwide problem. Deterrence of violence has been, and remains a complicated and often unsuccessful enterprise, given that violence is multi-factorial, and occurs in a variety of contexts (e.g., domestic violence; serial killing; mass slaying; terrorism; collective violence), and on a global scale within diverse socio-cultural populations (1). Given this broad ...

INTRODUCTION 6 Highly publicized mass shootings such as the 1999 Columbine High School massacre or the 2002 Washington, DC, sniper attacks tend to generate a skewed picture of firearm-related violence, focusing on extreme personalities in unusual contexts. Yet small arms are misused on a daily basis in many communities around the world, making gun violence too banal and too frequent for the int...

This article is a version of the Introduction to the World Report on Violence and Health, published by the World Health Organization (WHO). It presents a general description about this phenomenon and points some basic questions: concepts and definitions about the theme; the state of knowledge about it; nature and typology on violence; proposal of a quantitative and qualitative approach of an ec...

We identify a process of global pattern formation that causes regions to differentiate by culture. Violence arises at boundaries between regions that are not sufficiently well defined. We model cultural differentiation as a separation of groups whose members prefer similar neighbors, with a characteristic group size at which violence occurs. Application of this model to the area of the former Y...

This paper provides an overview of the extent and nature of gender-based violence and its health consequences, particularly on sexual and reproductive health.

OBJECTIVE Intimate partner violence against women is a growing global public health problem that is related to various psychosocial, cultural, mental, and economic factors. In this study, psychosocial factors affecting various types of intimate partner violence against women were investigated based upon affected individuals' statements. METHODS Demographic data, exposure to various types of p...

Author Una Hombrecher, ethnologist, Head of the International Project " Overcoming Domestic Violence " run by " Bread for the World " and the Social Service Agency In collaboration with (organisation and concept) Christina Sümmerer, certified psychologist, staff member in the International Project " Overcoming Domestic Violence " run by " Bread for the World " and the Social Service Agency of t...