We are so pleased to have you join us as we investigate this crucial topic. Violence is a leading cause of death, disability and health care use worldwide. Violence is a complex problem and can only be understood and reduced though a multidisciplinary approach. This course introduces you to experts who study different forms of violence and we will discuss the various causes of violence. You will also learn about efforts to reduce violence and engage in a day of compassion. We are very fortunate that PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER is participating in our course. He delivers a lecture on the efforts of the Carter Center to end violence around the world, and he engages in a discussion with us about his life and work in human rights. Do join us for short videos, readings and discussions. And also see our coffee chats, where we (Pamela and Deb) summarize and reflect on each module. And we want to hear from you! Feel free to reach out via Twitter or through the course, or through our Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/understandingviolence01/.
Coffee Chat with Pamela and Deb
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Understanding Violence
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Overview of Violence
We begin the course by defining violence and discussing why violence can be difficult to identify and measure. We will review the rates of violence in the U.S. and globally.
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Deb Houry, MD, MPHAssociate Professor
Emergency Medicine
Pamela Scully, Ph.D.Professor
Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and African Studies
Welcome to our first coffee chat.
Each week we hope to summarize the different speaker's topics, and really
discuss them here, and hopefully engage you on the discussion boards as well.
>> We want to think about this particular Coursera course as generating a kind of
community to the extent that we can with so
many students and indeed, quite a few professors.
But we do want to indicate in this coffee chat that we are here to talk with you and
hope you will generate conversation also.
>> So I think one of my take-aways from this week is, you know,
why don't people really view violence as a problem like they do cancer or AIDS?
And I think after reflecting on it,
it's really because people might see it as an act of God or not preventable-
>> Mm-hm.
>> And, or something that happens to others, what do you think?
>> I think, I, I agree and I also wonder whether violence is so
pervasive we almost don't see it.
Or there's certain kinds of violence we see and others that we don't.
That on the one hand it's so generic, we hardly know how to talk about it and
in another way because it's so generic, we don't know what to do about it.
I would say, and so I suppose allied with that I think there's sort of
a paradox is that violence is in a sense everywhere and
yet it's also culturally located to some extent.
So that was one of the take-aways for
me is that some violence is recognized in some context, not others.
So for example, nowadays in the United States rape in marriage is recognized
as marital rape, but in, in quite a few other countries, that's not the case.
>> And that's like even within the US you can see those cultural differences with
things like spanking.
>> Mm-hm, exactly, as we discussed, exactly.
And so also, I was really struck and
I learned something this week in that regard is the very high rates of suicide.
>> Yeah. >> And again,
serving your question back to you,
you know, why do we not really focus more on this do you think?
>> Yeah. And if you look at the news media,
we'll hear more about that later in this course.
You know, there's a lot of sensationalism of violence but suicide, I think,
can be stigmatized quite often, or something that people don't talk about.
And there's been talks too, that when you at look at coding
a lot of times suicide actually isn't even coded as suicide.
It might be an accidental or unknown [CROSSTALK].
>> When you say coding, talking to-
>> Yes. [LAUGH]. >> A humanities person, do you mean you know,
your lecture on surveillance?
That, that, that part of doing surveillance is also making sure that you,
you have the right kind of metrics to discuss-
[CROSSTALK]. >> Ab, ab, ab, absolutely.
>> To survey what you want to do. >> Sometimes medical records can
be incomplete.
Or a family might report you know, a death as really unknown how it happened.
And it can be because there's stigma around suicide.
The, a lot of times suicides may not truly be reported as suicide because of
that stigma.
And I think in the US as well as globally, if you look, suicides are more
prevalent then homicides but again I don't think that's something we talk about.
Suicides are preventable as we'll talk about-
>> Mm-hm. >> Later this course but
I think it's something we do need to focus our attention on.
>> You know Deb one of take homes I took away from your lecture on surveillance is
I mean we know that it's imperfect in the United States.
But then, how much more challenging is it for
people in countries which don't have, you know, a, a, a really great infrastructure?
Even as our infrastructure is not as great as it once [LAUGH] was.
But how do we then you know,
do the surveillance that helps us identify violence and, and realize that
there seems to be many challenges as you start looking at it as a global issue.
>> And I think even within the US you really need data to drive decisions and
although we may not have the best data possible in all instances, it
can still really inform the different risk factors for both you know, victims and
perpetrators and help subsequently, I think, inform interventions, and-
>> Mm-hm. >> You know,
I think again, looking at the surveillance data,
it's obvious that violence is both predictable and preventable.
And that's really what I hope the take-away from this week is.
>> Yes and I think, indeed, just as Deb says, and for the whole course, really,
I think we wouldn't be doing this course if we didn't think there is
something to be done about violence and that, trying to understand why it
happens might not really help us try to, prevent it in some way.
So we'll see you next week and look forward to it.
And seeing you online, too.
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