SOCIAL STUDIES

 SEARCHING FOR PEACE 

CONFLICT AND VIOLENCE IN OUR SOCIETY

What is conflict?

●is the disagreement between people over something important. It is fight between groups of people or countries. 

What is violence?

Refers to physical force intended to hurt, damage, and or kill someone or something. 

Causes of conflict and violence in our society. 

●misunderstanding 

●low self-esteem 

●political reason

●financial greedy

●different views of opinions 

●alcohol and drug abuse

●frustration 

Social and environmental conflicts

Social conflict -disputes among the people in a village. E.g beating of children at home or  school. 

Environmental conflict -conflict over the use of natural resources, damage caused or countries claiming the same part of land .E.g Namibia and Botswana claiming to own Kasikili Island. 

GENDER BASED VIOLENCE (GBV)

Involves abuse ad physical harm or killing between men and women. It is mostly done by men to woman. 

Forms of gender based violence 

Physical abuse-is any act of hurting or injuring a person on purpose. E.g a husband beats a wife or boyfriend beats a girlfriend .

Sexual abuse-is Sexual behavior by one person upon another. E.g.rape,Sexual harassment and Sexual assault.

Economic abuse-a situation in which someone harms another person in a close relationship using money. E.g.use women to do work for no or less pay.

Psychological abuse-is the behavior that aims to cause emotional or mental harm. E.g.insult and scare people. 

Ways society could deal with conflict and violence. 

●Teach people to know their rights. 

●Report crime

●severe punishment to offenders

●organise awareness campaign on violence 

●post placards on street to combat conflicts and violence. 

●Encourage people to speak out when faced with conflict or violence