{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Youth For Love","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.youthforlove.eu\/en\/","author_name":"andyveltjen","author_url":"https:\/\/www.youthforlove.eu\/en\/author\/andyveltjen\/","title":"Violence among adolescents through their own eyes - Youth For Love","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"EjEhuiMe5Z\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youthforlove.eu\/en\/violence-among-adolescents-through-their-own-eyes\/\">Violence among adolescents through their own eyes<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youthforlove.eu\/en\/violence-among-adolescents-through-their-own-eyes\/embed\/#?secret=EjEhuiMe5Z\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Violence among adolescents through their own eyes&#8221; &#8212; Youth For Love\" data-secret=\"EjEhuiMe5Z\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\n\/*! 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The project Youty4Love 2 aims to do exactly that, with the cooperation of Italy, Belgium, Greece and Romania and by focusing on five local communities. The goal is to promote the adoption of positive behaviors on preventing and addressing peer violence among youth, families, educational professionals and community members. Starting with the students and in order to learn more about their experience on youth violence in schools, ActionAid Hellas made 4 focus groups in Greece with the participation of 40 teen-participants. What is impressive is that the majority of the teenagers, reported physical violence and especially among boys, ranging from a push to a kick or even a knife assault. Something also important to note down is that none of the students who participated, seem to understand the severity of the incidents they described. So what exactly happen in schools regarding physical and verbal violence? \u201cOne day at school a group of boys started beating one boy, with no reason\u201d, \u201ctwo students right outside our school had a disagreement and after that they started beating each other\u201d, \u201cduring a school excursion, where I was not present, I heard that a schoolmate took out a knife at two other persons of the school\u2026because they had a fight at the past, the one boy got angry and started beating my friend hard, because of his anger\u201d. Is physical violence and verbal abuse connected? It seemed quite difficult for the children to understand and report psychological violence and verbal abuse and unfortunately the majority of them either think of verbal abuse as a common practice or they connect it to the physical abuse: \u201c\u2026I saw a group of boys who pushed another boy and were making fun of his weight\u2026they thought that something like that would make them macho\u201d, \u201che was alone in a corner and in front of him there was a group of schoolmates who were making fun, because of what he was, about his identity. I never understood why. He was just different.\u201d The last experience has a common understanding with the perception of the racist abuse as another child shared: \u201cI saw a group of children isolated in a corner of the courtyard a boy who had recently come to our school. This child had come from another country and the children who made up this group of friends insulted him, with very ugly characterizations and they started beating him. This story went on for about 6 weeks and then that particular child decided to leave.&#8221; Regarding the role of gender towards violence, the children, follow stereotypical beliefs, as they seem to believe that boys mainly use physical power and girls fight through words. But what does violence mean to the children who participated? Some of the words or phrases they shared are the following: \u201cBullying, different, something that does not pair with everybody, tensions, advantageous position based on unknown criteria, inequality, disturbance of normality, bad [&hellip;]"}