1. Boğaziçi University Boğaziçi Seagulls Increasing Human Dignity by Reducing Insensitivity Towards Violence 24/02/2011 http://bogaziciseagulls.com/

2. Group Introduction

4. Raising awareness

5. To make people realize the ignorance of the certain types of violence.

12. Decrease of respect towards oneself and the others due to the increase of insensitivity

16. LITERATURE Types of violence Physical violence Sexual violence Psychological violence Cultural violence Verbal violence Emotional violence Financial abuse Neglect Spiritual violence http://www.gov.nl.ca/VPI/types/index.html

17. Yeditepe University Faculty of Comunication, Radio- Tv- Cinema Department Com 422 Mass comunication researches , “Effects of violence based computer games on teenegers.”In this research ,violence is stated as a method to solve problems. Table 7- presentation style of violence in computer games

18. In this table taken from the same research indicates that 57% of teenegers are not affected by playing these games.It is an indication of how teenegers naturalize and adopt violence. Table 9-Behaviors of individuals who play games which contain violence.

19. System Society Social and cultural norms that do not care about violence issue Justice system does not give enough importance to violence cases “The snake that doesn't touch me can live a thousand years for all I care” approach Punishments are not deterrant. Why are we insensitive to violence? The negative effects of tv programs that contain violence People do not know what kind of actions involve violence. Fear Children are witness to violence in their social enviroment.(school,home..) Human Method

26. Questionnaire administered to 2 groups including 30 persons.( Control and experimental groups)

27. We made discussions with Büperc and Bürem.

29. Our survey We have prepared a questionnaire to measure the people’s susceptibility to violence. We asked 18 question which includes cultural, physical, spiritual, verbal, psychological, sexual, financial, moral violence and neglect. The questionnaire also includes demografic questions (Birth place, financial conditions, having a house or car and educational backgrounds.) We gathered data from 60 people, 30 of them taking a course non-violence in education (experimental group) and other 30 people not taking the course (control group). However, one person who filled the survey randomly renomed. All people pariticipating the questionnaire are university students with average of age 21.66. We analyzed our findings with t-test, chi square test and a type of factorial ANOVA.

30. The Results of Survey Independentsample t test showed that there is a significant difference between groups who took lecture about violence and not in terms of verbal, psychological, emotionalviolence,financial abuse and neglect. That is, the person who takes violence education is more sensitive to these types of violence. We have not found any significant difference between groups in terms of cultural, physical, spiritual and sexual violence Also one way between factorial ANOVA showed that there is an effect of the group on total score of participant. Experimental group have higher scores in total.

31. Also we did chi square test to analyze whether there is a relationship between their background and their total score. More high score means more sensitivity to violence. We cannot find any association for total score in terms of gender, where they were born, situation of whether they have a car or a house, their financial situation, what type of violence they firstly think , what type of violence they witness. But we found that there is a relationship between what type of high school they graduated and their total score.

33. T-test

34. Chi Square test

37. Sözen, Serap (2010).Şiddete Uğradıktan Sonra İnsan Olmak Retrieved March 4,2011 from http://www.tavsiyeediyorum.com

39. Dr. Fatma Nevra Seggie

40. Dr. Maria Hadjipavlou

41. BUPERC, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Barış Eğitim ve Araştırma Merkezi