18:33:03 CASERTA. Municipality of Caserta on the front line against bullying and gender violence. In fact, in the next few weeks, a project aimed at middle school and high school students will begin, which aims to raise awareness among young people against episodes of violence.
Promoting the project is councilor Emilianna Credentino who underlines the importance of raising awareness and prevention to stem this increasingly present and dangerous phenomenon.
«Unfortunately, episodes of violence are increasingly frequent and, for this reason, it is our task to try to help young people to prevent them – specified Councilor Credentino – it is for this reason that alongside awareness meetings we have organized a defense course staff aimed at girls and students”.
The councilor specifies that the lessons will be held by a boxing champion who is an expert in self-defense and bullying prevention initiatives, Clemente De Crescenzo, who has also obtained several national awards for this activity.
“We turned to an expert who can help students and boys deal with a possible emergency, but also make them understand how wrong oppressive attitudes towards others are”, continued the Italia Viva councilor. The project will take its first steps at the end of this school year with a series of awareness meetings and will then develop fully starting from next September when the self-defense courses will be organised. According to Istat data, two out of ten children between the ages of 11 and 17 have suffered bullying one or more times a month.
The presence, among young people, of interpersonal relationships characterized by the interaction between a “victim” and one or more “bullies” is increasingly a condition not to be underestimated. It is the so-called phenomenon of bullying, identifiable in an interaction between peers characterized by aggressive behavior, an imbalance of strength/power in the relationship and a persistence over time of “harassing” actions.
As part of the survey on “Aspects of Daily Life” in 2014, it emerges that bullying, real “vexatious actions”, carried out between children/adolescents, ranges from insults to derision, from threats to aggression with pushes, kicks and punches to the point of damaging and stealing property, from defamation, stories and/or lies spread with the intent to discredit, to exclusion (from events, but also from simple involvement in a group of peers) .
