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BBC - Religion and Ethics - Ethics of War
A learning site exploring the ethics of War, and the concept of a just war
After School Exchange . Activities & Tips . Finding Peaceful Solutions
Video clips of Lynn Hurdle-Price and Tajae Gaynor
Human Rights Education manuals download page
4 different training manuals here for the downloading.
Violence in Video Games
Video Game Violence: It's Not What You Think
There is no research that conclusively links video game violence to real life violence. In fact, over forty years of research on media violence and audience aggression that attempts to find a direct correlation between exposure and behavior has produced contradictory findings. In order to address the issue of violence in video games and its influence on players, we need to investigate video games as cultural artifacts, not as behavior triggers. Examined as artifacts, we can see how video games (and the industry within which video games are produced and distributed) depict a certain kind of violence: Violence in the video game world is almost always justified; players are rewarded for escalating their violent behavior; vigilante-style justice is favored over due-process; the player often serves as judge, jury and hangman; white characters typically represent heroes and thus perpetrate justified violence, while nonwhite characters more often represent villains and are punished by the hero for their violent behavior; the majority of female characters in video games are victims of violence, and are often sexually violated by both villains and heroes. By taking a closer look at how violence is represented in video games, we can learn much more about its influence on how audiences think about aggression, conflict resolution, gender and race relations, and moral responsibility.
School-Based Violence Prevention Programs: A Resource Manual
Focused on violence against girls. Good intervention programs listing with research info
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