Damascus-SANA
The Arab community faces violence in every detail of its life and is exposed to it through the media, drama and various social media, sometimes spontaneously and deliberately and at other times.
The role of society and culture in the face of violence The title of the dialogue symposium hosted by the Arab Cultural Center in Kafr Sousa by Dr. Hana Barkawi and the journalist Samer Al-Shughari, where Barkawi, a professor at the Faculty of Arts, Department of Sociology, indicated that violence is a harmful behavior that an individual or group may perform towards another individual or group, and it may be physical. Or verbally, morally, psychologically, economically or otherwise.
She pointed to the causes and motives of violence and the appropriate ways to confront it, whether individual or societal, such as dialogue, because confronting violence with violence is not a solution, explaining that violence is intertwined episodes.
Bargawi suggested a set of solutions to reduce the practice of violence, including social awareness through counselors in schools and the community and awareness through various media by resorting to specialists in dealing with violence and not being silent about it, in addition to promoting the culture that is considered the strongest in reducing violence.
For his part, Al-Shaghari indicated that culture can confront violence when it is framed, and violence takes its most dangerous forms when it is directed towards intellectual and cultural symbols, pointing to the types of violence, including direct and indirect and cultural violence, by imposing witnessing killing and mutilation of corpses in places controlled by terrorists and promoting violence on television, drama and means of communication social.
Bilal Ahmad
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