An effort to tackle violence in schools

I agree with what andreu said.

Another and last remark for today: violence is a system that has many, many facets. In order to be able to really face the issue, it is necessary to accept the complexity of the phenomenon and to look at all its parts at once. Talking about one single form of violence is a reduction of complexity that needs to be refered as such and understood as such. Complex perspectives need to be created ahead of any partial discussion of the phenomenon.

Fifth: this doesn't mean that we have finished our work. The implementation activities have started 2 years ago. The research went in absolute silence for more than 15 years before any of it became known to any public. Comunicating the issues in the right way will be the major issue in the future. We are racing against time. The clock runs even faster as global crisis do converge.

Sixth: we intend to keep it silent as long as possible in order to make the work applicable to reality, without major discussions being needed. We call it a soft evolution. The change will happen in very small steps and we want it to go as much as possible in an imperceptible and non reversable way, except for the fact, that discussions like this one will be noticed and directed slowly to a more suitable standard of know-how and positions defending any use of violence may become obsolete and be replaced by those enabling the alternative.

Seventh: don't expect me to tell any person in any way in a couple of sentences what our know-how is about. If you want it, you earn it. And this means that you work it step by step.

Eighth: the know-how is available in English as a conference made for the World Criminology Association and presented first in 2008 at the XV World Congress of Criminology. The core text is right now being revised -precisely- by a person who has earned the Indira Gandhi price. We are meeting soon, in a couple of weeks. That part is written in Spanish. Weather it will and how it will be published in English is left to be seen after our meeting and discussions.

Ninth: for more information I am here to give it.

Tenth: any opinion is valid to be discussed, also an opinion that I understand as not valid from a scientific point of view. Good or bad does not exist in regards with pure logic. To be or not to be, that is the question.

ok, hello all again.

First: I am doing research on the structure of violence itself. This means that in the first place I have put violence as the core or central research issue into the panel of work. I started this initiative first in the arts and created by the means of comunication through the arts social experiments that worked out to be fine in Germany in groups of more than 1400 persons at once. I am working on the issues since 1988 as a central issue in my life. I decided that one man standing is enough to stop violence existing. Gandhi did a very good work. This was for a reason. Times were not ripe as they are now. Times evolve. Gandhi's thoughts sequels too.

Second: the research is not done in solitude standing. I have a large network in which we cooperate and produce the results on a grounded basis. We actually work the theme with many different disciplines, but we have mainly managed to implement the system and the grounded theory for this research and that is the most innovative aspect of it.

Third: violence has been researched in a very thorough way and from the perspective of violence itself as a system.

3a: This implies that first of all violence had to be identified as a system.

3b: This implies too, that violence had to be understood as a system within systems and its system function needed to be redefined accepting the paradoxes it contains.

3c: This then means that once the system is described for the first time and you understand its function within other systems you are able to choose between running the system or trying an alternative.

3d:we have designed the alternative and tried it out in closed experiments. It works.

3e: We have headed for the alternative. Violence as a system will not be able neither allowed to operate any more where we use our influence on it. Violence is finished and ended since we have a real choice about it. The identification of the core of the violence system was the real challenge and this seems to be pretty over.

Fourth, as we understand violence and the alternative we are already working on the implementation of the alternative functions at a light-speed. This work is being overlooked by UN, NATO members and public administration members as well as the scientific network itself, etc...

I have been a teacher and the punishment meted out to students is not working. Most of them get used to it and some of them would rather waste class time with idiotic issues than study. So, punishment is not justified as students are immune to it and they just get away with making fun of the teacher. They should not be given warnings and should be rusticated without a second chance.