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- RESUMÉ Mezinárodněprávní aspekty násilí na ženách The international legal aspects of the violence against women The main purpose of my thesis is to describe basic legal instruments which regulates area of violence against women and analyse a development of a legal regulation adopted by regions and whole international community. Minor purpose of this thesis is to evaluate possible connection between violence against women and religion. Violence against women is still everyday problem in each part of the world. The thesis is composed of six principal chapters. Chapter one describes basic forms of violence against women which are determined by Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, since 1993. The Declaration defines Violence against Women as "any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women, includin threats of such acts, cercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occuring in public or in private life." Chapter two presents several areas which are specific for the violence against women and also demonstrates basic legislations adopted in each area. These areas are international humanitarian law, which includes Geneva Conventions and general section of human rights including women...

D.Ed. / The frequency and intensity of aggression that has become an everyday reality to an increasing number of adolescents who perpetrate it, witness it or become its victims necessitates research of the phenomenon in context so that measures may be put in place to curb it or prevent it from occurring in the first place. Despite current legislation to protect the rights and safety of pupils, reports in literature on aggression in South African schools illustrate the ways in which aggression continues to have a detrimental impact on adolescents in secondary schools. Hence, the first research aim of this study, conducted within a psychoeducational framework, was to explore how adolescents experience aggression in an urban public secondary school in the Johannesburg South school district in the Gauteng Province of South Africa. Based on the findings the second aim of the research study was to develop, implement and evaluate a psycho-educational programme for the constructive management of aggression that adolescents experienced in that context in order to facilitate improvements in their mental health. A mixed methods research design with an explorative, descriptive, explanatory and contextual focus was followed. The qualitative phase of the mixed methods design not only provided richer insight and understanding into the complex phenomenon of aggression in secondary schools but also served to provide a foundation for the quantitative stage of the study. The four criteria of truth-value, applicability, consistency and neutrality, identified by Guba to ensure trustworthiness in research, were applied. Ethical measures were strictly adhered to and included maintaining the confidentiality of the data and respecting the privacy, anonymity and the voluntary participation of the participants. Informed consent to conduct the research was obtained from the necessary authorities and from the research participants. The study was conducted in four phases as prescribed by programme development, implementation and evaluation. In phase one, the situation analysis phase, data was collected using phenomenological interviews and field notes which were verified by means of a literature control. The data generated from this phase was analysed using Tesch’s open coding method of analysing descriptive data. Three themes were identified that encapsulate the adolescents’ experience of aggression. The themes identified that adolescents are aware of their diverse experiences of aggression, that they experience aggression as an internal or external point of control in their lives and that they experience aggression as a barrier to healthy interpersonal relationships. The data was used in phase two as a basis to develop a psycho-educational programme aimed at teaching adolescent pupils the skills to manage the aggression they experience in secondary school in a constructive manner. Phase three saw the implementation of the psycho-educational programme. In phase four the researcher used an experimental research design to evaluate the efficacy of the programme. The results were analysed using rigorous statistical techniques. The narrative comments made by the participants to evaluate each workshop session were used to provide a qualitative evaluation of the programme process. The positive results obtained from both the qualitative and the quantitative evaluations of the psycho-educational programme suggest that it may be applied successfully to facilitate the constructive management of aggression that adolescents experience in the secondary school environment and in life so that they can attain mental health and actualise their full potential for a positive future.

Magister Artium (Medical Anthropology) - MA(Med Ant) / Although gender-based violence has been identified as highly problematic in South Africa, it has not been given much scholarly attention in relation to refugee women. This study focuses on the experience of some of these women who have resettled in Cape Town. The main focus is on gender-based violence and the linkages between conflicts at home, fleeing from it, as well as the problems faced by women when they reach the 'new' country where they are suppose to be safe, but yet continue to experience gender violence. By referring to my own empirical research I try to tease out the many instances of violence and abuse such women face, how they understand and try to make sense of it and how they try to take up their lives in Cape Town. I utilized the much used ecological framework to analyze gender-based violence and argue that, while this 'model' is dynamic and allows one to make analytical linkages across different 'levels' of violence, it nevertheless does not adequately provide for understanding the relationship between larger global and international processes, the connection that women may still have with their countries of origin and the impact of being a refugee or unwanted 'immigrant' in South Africa. Data was collected through in-depth interviews and participant observation. The participants were 25 and a descriptive analysis indicated that three quarter of the women have in one way or the other been abused by their husbands/partners. The findings also indicated that refugee/forced immigrant women just like any other woman in South Africa do encounter gender-based violence but other factors beyond their control has exacerbated it’s occurrence amongst them. Thus, the findings were based on ethnographic research that analyzed how forced immigrant/refugee women talk about gender-based violence. / South Africa

Magister Curationis - MCur / Background and Research Problem: It is well-known that nurses around the world are exposed to various forms of violence at their workplaces. In psychiatric facilities, many of these incidents are perpetrated by patients against nurses. There is a perception that the current legislation and regulations in the country do not adequately protect psychiatric nurses (health care workers in general) against workplace violence. The preliminary literature suggested that most quantitative studies on workplace violence in psychiatric facilities have concentrated on secondary and tertiary psychiatric hospitals looking at the prevalence, the association between demographic factors and violence behaviour, nurses‟ therapeutic responses, and the impacts on the quality of care. Studies on workplace violence in a psychiatric facility for adults with intellectual disability in the country are limited. Secondly, it appeared from the preliminary literature review that similar studies have not looked at this phenomenon from the individual resilience perspective.Therefore, this study will seek to determine the factors associated with the psychological response of nurses‟ victims of inpatient violence in a psychiatric facility for adults with intellectual disability in Cape Town.Aim: To determine factors associated with the psychological response of nurses‟ victims of in-patient violence in a psychiatric facility for adults with intellectual disability in Cape Town.Objectives: To describe the (1) individual resilience of nurses working at a psychiatricfacility for adults with intellectual disability; (2) psychological response of nurses‟ victims of in-patients‟ violence at a psychiatric facility for adults with intellectual disability; and (3) association between the individual resilience characteristics and the psychological responses of nurses victims of in-patients‟ violence in a psychiatric facility for adults with intellectual disability.Methodology: Descriptive-exploratory design using a quantitative approach was used.All categories of nurses (professional nurse, enrolled nurse and enrolled nursing assistance) working at the psychiatric facility for adults with intellectual disability were eligible for the study. Convenient sampling was conducted to select 127 participants who met the inclusion criteria. Self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data. Data was analysed using the SAS V9.3 computer programme. Ethical clearance was obtained from University as well as approval from the management of the psychiatric facility prior to approaching the study participants. Results: The results of the study showed high level of resilience among nurses on Assessment of Resilience Scale (82.9%, n=104); nurses psychological responses to violence were equally distributed between avoidance (mean =4.65 and SD=1.36), intrusion (mean= 4.55 and SD=1.50), hyper arousal (mean=4.46 and SD=1.60) resulting in total mean of 13.67 (SD=4.14) on the revised Impact of Event Scale (IES-R). Measure of association between resilience and the impact of violence on the psychological wellbeing of nurses showed that nurses with high resilience score (82.9%, n=104) fitted the symptoms of PTSD on the IES-R. Spearman Rank correlations (r) analysis showed the total scores of IES-R (r=0.04, p=0.68), avoidance (r=0.01, p= 0.34), intrusion (r=0.08,p=0.34), and hyper-arousal (r= -0.002, p=0.97). Further research looking at the nurses‟ reliance and their responses using resilience theory is needed.

Health personnel, especially nurses, are often victims of workplace violence. Unfortunately, little is known about the nurses' experience of violence. A research study was initiated to further explore the nurses' accounts of workplace violence so as to make dimensions of the nurses' experience visible and more fully understood. Interpretive description was the research methodology adopted for this study. Using theoretical sampling, ten Registered Nurses from the lower mainland and Vancouver Island, British Columbia participated in semi structured, audiotaped interviews. In this research, the nurses' experience of workplace violence emerged as a highly complex entity, deeply embedded in relationships and context. How nurses perceive the contextual factors of the organization, their immediate work environment and their individual attributes were found to play a significant role in how they respond to the phenomenon. The findings of this study suggest that organizational culture is an important determinant in managing workplace violence and that policy and administrative personnel play a pivotal role in influencing the problem. Nursing culture also influences the nurses' expectations, assumptions and actions towards violence. Participants voiced that role conflict often challenged their ability to enact acquired professional ideals and that that they routinely undertake roles in dealing with violence that are not appropriate to their level of knowledge or skill. Within the nurses' immediate work environment, bullying as well as physical and verbal abuse was commonplace. Overcrowding, long waits for service, poor environmental design and inadequate staff to patient ratios were seen as factors that increased nurses' risk. Individual factors were associated with emotional and psychological harms that nurses endured. Workplace violence affected self-concept, self-esteem, self-efficacy and the nurses' sense of control. Moral distress, self-blame, feelings of failure, loss of motivation and leaving the nursing profession were significant findings. The results of this study demonstrate a need to re-think how we can address workplace violence in nursing. Research and intervention is needed to further explore organizational policy and governing structures, the culture and climate of practice environments, and the fundamental role nursing education programs have in preparing nurses to manage workplace violence. / Applied Science, Faculty of / Nursing, School of / Graduate

There is ample evidence to suggest that, in the context of dating relationships, female-perpetrated intimate abuse is as common as male-perpetrated intimate abuse (e.g., Archer, 2000). Despite awareness of this fact, female-perpetrated intimate abuse remains an understudied area. The current study adds to the available literature on female-perpetrated intimate abuse by examining Dutton’s (2007) theory of the Abusive Personality in a sample of 914 women who had been involved in dating relationships. This is the first study to examine all elements of the Abusive Personality in women simultaneously. Consistent with the Abusive Personality, recalled parental rejection, borderline personality organization (BPO), anger, and trauma symptoms all demonstrated moderate to strong relationships with women’s self-reported intimate psychological abuse perpetration. Fearful attachment style demonstrated a weak to moderate relationship with psychological abuse perpetration. With the exception of fearful attachment, all elements of the Abusive Personality demonstrated a relationship with women’s self-reported intimate violence perpetration. However, these relationships were comparatively weak. A potential model for explaining the interrelationships between the elements of the Abusive Personality was tested using structural equation modeling. This is the first study with either sex to examine all elements of the Abusive Personality simultaneously using structural equation modeling. Consistent with the proposed model, recalled parental rejection demonstrated a relationship with BPO, trauma symptoms, and fearful attachment. Also consistent with the model, trauma symptoms demonstrated a relationship with anger, and BPO demonstrated strong relationships with trauma symptoms, fearful attachment, and anger. Additionally, anger itself had a strong relationship with women’s self-reported perpetration of intimate psychological and physical abuse. Contrary to the proposed model, fearful attachment had a non-significant relationship with anger – when this relationship was examined using structural equation modeling. Based on findings from the current study, fearful attachment has a weaker relationship with college women’s perpetration of intimate abuse than it does with clinical samples’ perpetration of intimate abuse. Following a discussion of the results, limitations of the study are discussed in conjunction with possible future directions for this line of research. / Arts, Faculty of / Psychology, Department of / Graduate

Dans les sociétés patriarcales comme l'Iran où l'inégalité entre les hommes et les femmes est élevée, l'exercice de la violence pour résoudre les conflits familiaux a donc une légitimité implicite. Ainsi les hommes pensent que la violence est une façon légitime et plus simple et plus efficace. Cependant, aujourd'hui le fait de la violence, en tant qu'une façon appropriée de résoudre les conflits dans les familles, va perdre petit à petit sa légitimité dans les sociétés patriarcales aussi ; parce que les femmes ne se soumettent plus, facilement à la violence. Comme le montre l'augmentation des femmes qui se présentent aux tribunaux pour demander le divorce en raison de violence conjugale, ou les femmes qui se suicident, ou s'enfuient de leur domicile, la société traditionnelle iranienne confirme ces faits. Concernant l'influence de la violence sur la déstabilisation des familles en Iran, nous avons introduit deux hypothèses principales dans ce mémoire de thèse. Première hypothèse, il s'agit de l'existence d'une relation significative entre le divorce et la violence conjugale physique dans la société actuelle d'Iran. En deuxième hypothèse, nous avons conclu qu'aujourd’hui dans la société iranienne le niveau de la violence qui cause le divorce est encore assez élevé. Selon notre hypothèse, ce niveau de violence est dépendant de plusieurs éléments démographiques et socio-économiques. Pour vérifier la vraisemblance de nos hypothèses, nous avons effectué une enquête. Les résultats de notre enquête montrent que le Degré de la Violence qui Cause une demande du Divorce (DVCD) en tant que la variable dépendante diffère significativement des sept variables indépendantes, à savoir : le niveau d'études de femmes, leur opinion sur la violence conjugale, le niveau des études des pères des femmes, le lieu d'habitation, le lieu d'habitation parentale, l'âge des femmes et le nombre d'enfants / In the patriarchal societies like Iran, the disparity between men and women is high and thus the exercise of the violence to resolve the family conflicts has an implicit legitimacy. There, man assumes that the violence is a simpler and more effective and justifiable way. However, today even in patriarchal society the women do not easily slender to the violence and the trend of resolving the family conflicts through violence is becoming less common. According to the Iranian traditional society, this attitude has increased the number of women who contact the courts to get the divorce or commit suicide, or run away from their house. Concerning the influence of the violence on the destabilization of families in Iran, we have proposed two main hypotheses in this report. First hypothesis, it is about the existence of a significant relation between the divorce and the physical conjugal violence in the current society of Iran. In the second hypothesis, we have concluded that there is a high ratio of violence that is causing the divorce. According to our hypothesis, this level of violence depends on several demographic and socioeconomic elements. To verify the credibility of our hypotheses we have conducted a survey. The results show that the degree of the violence which causes a request of the divorce as a dependent variable varies significantly with seven independent variables, namely: the level of women education, their opinion on the conjugal violence, the education level of the women's fathers, living place, parental living place, the age of the women and the number of children

M.Cur. (Psychiatric Nursing) / Social situations make a person vulnerable to mental illness. These situations include circumstances such as poverty, an unstable family and inadequate nutrition. A combination of these circumstances predisposes exposed people to developing unhealthy ways of coping with stress. '. Violence can be seen as a way of managing stress, but also as a factor causing stress. An example of unhealthy ways of stress management in the current South African society is the violence that lends to unrest which has affected different communities in a short space of time. There does not seem to be much information in texts about the. effects of violence, and not enough studies have yet been done to gain enough insight into this field, since it has only recently drawn the attention of health professionals. As a result, the development of sound interventive measures in this' regard to support the communities exposed to violence, has been neglected. The aim of this study is to explore the experience of a community exposed to violence and to compile guidelines for support action for the exposed community studied. An exploratory contextual study was undertaken with the purpose of generating meaning regarding the experience of a 'community characterised by violence. . The phenomenological method of interviewing was used to gather data. The target population consisted of a township community of 228000. Ten respondents were interviewed in total, selected by the convenience purposive sampling method through intermediaries. The interviews were recorded on tape and later transcribed verbatim. Data was analysed by the method of content analysis. The results were centred on the respondents' and their families' experiences of violence since March 1990. The results indicated four types of experiences for all people exposed to violence: psychological, spiritual, physical and behaviourial experiences. The experiences of interactions with the internal environment (psychological, spiritual and physical experiences), were predominantly negative, except for only two positive spiritual experiences (improvements in the people's faith and positive experiences in both environments brought about new insights, that is, that even though most of their internal environment and part of their external environment is bleak and hopeless, the victims of violence still have the will to survive and live a normal life like other people. This positive attitude then, supplies the psychiatric nurse with a point of entry to bring about positive change that acts as a support for the community exposed to violence.

Cette étude vise à comprendre les diverses manifestations de la maltraitance des élèves exercée par les enseignants, ce qui a un impact négatif sur l'environnement émotionnel, scolaire et social tant pour les élèves que pour les enseignants eux-mêmes, qui sont souvent affectés par les réponses violentes qu'ils reçoivent de leurs propres élèves. L'objectif est également d'analyser les effets défavorables de ce type de relation sur le climat scolaire, qui se traduit par diverses formes de conflits entre enseignants et élèves, entre collègues et ces derniers avec les parents et la direction scolaire. En outre, l'étude cherche à reconnaître les implications que cette problématique engendre pour l'école et le système éducatif lui-même, qui se sent souvent impuissant en raison de la complexité de cette expression de la violence scolaire dont les victimes sont les enseignants et l'école elle-même.Ce travail utilise les outils méthodologiques qui proviennent de la sociologie de Pierre Bourdieu afin d'obtenir une plus grande approche du domaine scolaire et, par conséquent, des relations entre enseignants et élèves qui sont mesurées par les relations de pouvoir à travers lesquelles l'autorité scolaire est exercée. D'autre part, la violence et les brimades à l'école sont abordées dans une perspective socio-éducative qui fournit des éléments fondamentaux pour leur compréhension et leur explication.Pour atteindre les objectifs fixés, la recherche utilise une méthodologie qualitative, focalisée sur la Participation, l’Action et la Recherche – IAP (Investigación Acción Participación pour ces initiales en espagnol) et le modèle des noyaux d’Education Sociale –NES (Núcleos de Educación Social pour ces initiales en espagnol). La population participante était composée d'élèves, d'enseignants, de directeurs et de parents de trois écoles publiques de la ville de Bogotá dans trois localités. Pour cette recherche des entretiens approfondis ont été utilisés avec les enseignants et les directions scolaires. Des groupes de discussion ont été organisés avec les parents et trois NES ont été menés avec les élèves dans le cadre de 24 séances de travail d'une durée d'environ 4 mois.En tant que bilan, la recherche a montré que les punitions physiques et émotionnelles continuent de faire partie des pratiques des enseignants et qu'elles sont façonnées par la répartition inégale du capital qui détermine les positions des élèves et des enseignants dans le domaine scolaire et, de plus, par une lutte continue pour maintenir le pouvoir et l'autorité dans une école qui exige de nouvelles pratiques et formes de relations qui répondent aux réalités de la société contemporaine. / This study is an effort to understand various manifestations of teachers violence against students, which leaves a negative impact on their scope of emotional feelings, academic achivements and social environment for both students and teachers, whom often are affected by the violent respons they receive from their own students. The purpose is also to analyse the unfavourable effects of this type of relationship on the school environment that translates into various forms of conflict, not only between teachers and students, but preceptors and many times includes school administration. In addition, the study seeks to recognize the implications that this problem has on the school and the education system itself, which often feels powerless due to the complexity of this expression of school violence in which it is the teachers and the school itself that are the perpetrators.This work uses methodological tools from the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu in order to obtain a greater approach in the academic field. Hence it mediates the power through which the school authority is exercised on the relationship between teachers and students. Moreover, school violence and bullying are approached from a socio-educational perspective that provides fundamental elements for their understanding and explanation.In order to achieve the objectives set foward, the research uses a qualitative methodology, the Participation Action Research - IAP approach and the Social Education Nuclei -NES model. The participating population was made up of students, teachers, directors and parents of three public schools in the city of Bogotá from three different locations. In-depth interviews were used to work with teachers, students, and school administration. Focus groups were held with parents and 3 NES were conducted with students in 24 work sessions lasting approximately 4 months.In conclusion, the research showed that physical and emotional punishment continue to be part of the practices of teachers and this is shaped by the unequal distribution of the city that determines the positions of students and teachers in the school field. Moreover, it is an ongoing struggle to maintain power and authority in school that demands new practices and forms of relationship that respond to the realities of contemporary society.