The participants agreed, at Socrates’ last cafes this season, that violence is on the rise. The discussion moved in the direction of the causes of violent behavior. At least when it comes to this dialogue, the cause is detected in marital relations, but also in educational models that are widespread in BiH, and which nurture a “culture of silence”.
Many participants stated that violence such as verbal and psychological violence is widespread in the intergenerational, but also in the cultural milieu when it comes to Bosnia and Herzegovina, but also the world. Duskisia is then directed towards the role of the media in the indoctrination of certain contents.
Participants pointed out that often in the media, men, who according to some research are mostly violent, are humanized, ie. the public explains their position as the position of the victim against whom violence was committed, whether in childhood or later experience. Many participants pointed out that women who are real victims of such relationships are characterized as those who demanded that violence happen to them because they are “guilty” and “did not see signs by the roadside”.
An interesting part of the dialogue was to answer the question of what would be the norms of preventing violence, especially gender-based violence, and all agreed that kindergartens and schools should play a more active role in empowering weaker voices, whatever their voices, and empowering women in general.
