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The introduction of new technologies has often been associated with fear and distrust by citizens and policymakers who fear a new corrosive influence. Like television before them, video games have recently been the subject of intense scrutiny because of graphic violent content. Concerns that video games might be …
The United Nations estimates that there are 370 million Indigenous peoples living in over 70 countries worldwide. Collectively, Indigenous peoples represent the vast majority of the world’s linguistic and cultural diversity as over 80% of the languages spoken today are Indigenous. Indigenous knowledge and resources have served to …
While most researchers and advocates assert that people with disabilities experience much higher rates of violence than people without disabilities, there are no national data measuring this phenomenon. Estimates of the prevalence of violence vary greatly. Researchers have estimated that violence against people with cognitive disabilities occurs 2 …
The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) was the first comprehensive federal legislation to address violence against women in the United States. First passed in 1994, VAWA as it came to be called was reauthorized in 2000 and most recently in 2005 with new additions and revisions. The first …
Though disaster managers minimize conflict and violence after disasters, domestic violence is often reported by disaster researchers and humanitarian relief workers both in the United States and other affluent nations and in the world’s poorest nations, where natural disasters take the highest toll. Indicators include increases in calls …
Wars and wartime violence have traditionally been considered the domain of men, but women’s bodies have always been part of the battlefield upon which wars and conflicts are fought. Men have used women’s bodies as a weapon against their enemies. Inflicting violence and exerting sexual power over women …
Violence prevention curricula are educational programs designed to reduce school-based violence. The basic right to education for youth can be jeopardized by violent and sometimes dangerous behavior that takes place in schools. In the last decade, school safety has become a high priority on educational, social, and political …
Violent resistance is one of three major forms of partner violence defined by Johnson. He developed this control-based typology in response to contrasting findings within the partner violence literature concerning the use of violence by women and the frequency, severity, and consequences of partner violence. Violent resistance is …
The Women of Color Network (WOCN) is a nationwide group of women dedicated to eliminating violence against women and families. It was founded in 1997 by a group of women of color from across the country and led by staff from the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence …
The Women’s Aid Federations of the United Kingdom are the national umbrella bodies for the local domestic abuse services in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Registered as charities under U.K. law, the federations respectively coordinate and support four networks of local organizations (370 in England, 40 in …
Workplace Violence Workplace violence falls under the general category of criminal violence. As defined by Reiss and Roth, it is behavior by persons against persons that intentionally threatens, attempts, or actually inflicts physical harm. There are other forms of workplace violence, not discussed here, that are psychologically nonviolent: …
There is relatively little research on strategies and policies to reduce workplace violence. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has developed a number of prevention strategies primarily for Type I and Type II workplace violence. Environmental Designs This strategy includes making accessible small amounts of …
Youth violence can be defined as the intentional use of physical force or power (threatened or actual) exerted either by or against youth that likely or actually causes psychological or physical harm. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that this widespread violence in the United States …
The Abbasids defeated the Umayyads to claim the caliphate and leadership of the Muslim world in 750. The Abbasids based their legitimacy as rulers on their descent from the prophet Muhammad’s extended family, not as with some Shi’i directly through the line of Ali and his sons. The …
Peter Abelard (1079–1142) was an abbot in the monastery of Saint-Gildas in the province of Brittany, France. He was born in Nantes, moved to Paris at the age of 15, and attended the University of Paris. He became a prolific writer, composing philosophical essays, letters, an autobiography, hymns, …
A’isha bint Abu Bakr was the daughter of Abu Bakr, one of the first converts to Islam and a close personal friend of the prophet Muhammad. According to the custom of the time, the family arranged A’isha’s engagement to the prophet Muhammad when she was only nine years …
The matter of heresy in the Catholic Church threatened the unity of Christendom precisely at the time that the pope was calling for an all-out war to reclaim the Holy Lands from the Muslims. Pope Innocent III conceived of the plan to wipe out the Albigensian heresy in …
Alcuin of York was an educator, poet, theologian, liturgical reformer, and an important adviser and friend of Charlemagne (c. 742–814 c.e.). He was a major contributor to the Carolingian Renaissance, a ninth century c.e. intellectual revival within Charlemagne’s domains that shaped the subsequent history of education, religion, and …
Ali ibn Abu Talib was the second convert to Islam. The son of Muhammad’s uncle Abu Talib, Ali married his cousin Fatima, the daughter of the prophet Muhammad and Khadija. Ali and Fatima had two sons, Hasan and Husayn, who both played key roles in the history of …
North Africa’s Berber tribes began converting to Islam with the commencement of the Arab conquests during the second half of the seventh century under the al-Rashidun and Umayyad Caliphates. Although Berber Muslims were active participants in the expansion of the Islamic state north from Morocco into Iberia, they …
