Sentences with phrase «mass violence»

People have made adaptive arguments for human violence, but our species has come up with mechanisms of mass violence on a scale no other species has.

This project examines the role of ideology in mass violence against civilians, and attempts to understand the ways in which ideology drives violence.

The case, amid recurring episodes of deadly mass violence, has drawn an intense response.

With so much tragedy filling up the news ~ particularly actions of mass violence ~ it's good to have a plan for addressing painful national events.

Is stronger legislation going to curb this kind of mass violence?

-- Investigate system failures in the shooting and prior mass violence incidents and develop recommendations for improvements.

Zeif joined other survivors, parents, and educators who pleaded with President Donald Trump to protect America's schools from mass violence like the kind that left 17 dead in Parkland, Florida, last week.

My Family Has Strong Ties To African Freedom — NOT EXACTLY; your cousin Raila Odinga has created mass violence in attempting to overturn a legitimate election in 2007, in Kenya.

Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas and state Sen. Todd Kaminsky (D - Long Beach) on Monday announce legislation boosting penalties for threatening schools or churches with mass violence.

It also would establish the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission to investigate the shooting and prior mass violence incidents and to make recommendations for improvements.

All over America, officials argued that there's very little that can be done to prevent mass violence like the attack that killed at least 58 people in Las Vegas.

North Carolina has seen a sharp increase in threats, leading school board members to urge lawmakers to make it a felony to make a threat of mass violence on school property.

Communities that have been affected by mass violence incidents may be able to apply for assistance through several DOJ grants.

Congress banned the guns for a decade in 1994, but they let that expire in 2004 as partisanship on guns hardened and in response to inconclusive evidence about whether it reduced mass violence.

The occasional spurts of mass violence don't make me consider gun bans, but the astounding number of adults who believe in fairy tales is possibly reason enough.

I assume that as with others, many of whom, like myself, had become close friends of the archbishop during the three brief years of his leadership, the call to honor his memory was stronger than the hovering sense of possible mass violence.

Or let's try this, Stalin was an Atheist, Stalin is responsible for one of the most violent periods in the 20th century therefore, by reality logic all atheist must be put to death because atheist cause mass violence.

Parkland was America's 41st mass shooting in 2018, but there have been at least five additional incidents of mass violence since as well as countless instances of everyday gun violence.

I wish to reiterate the President's call on the NPP to continue to restrain its followers and also request the security agencies to act swiftly to stop such incidents before they escalate into mass violence.»

The Republican - backed measures included ones to place an armed police officer at all New York City schools; make it a felony to threaten mass violence at a school; make it easier for schools to obtain technology hardware and software; and require schools to conduct «active shooter» drills.

Yet no objections were forthcoming when this important trading partner was the one inflicting mass violence on its own people.

But more than a century after a distraught Georgia man mowed down six of his fellow citizens, research on mass violence still takes a backseat to public fear and outrage.

However, any data on killings during mass violence, including from the Rwandan survey, will be incomplete, Nyseth Brehm cautions.

In 1994, mass violence claimed up to 1 million lives in the East African nation of Rwanda.

The psychologist at Texas A&M has conducted several studies including parental influence on children, if mass violence and video games is a casual relationship or moral panic (in which he uses the same numbers of others opposed to his conclusions against them), gender, video game playing habits and visual memory tasks.

Walter Lifton and his colleagues talk about the objectification of mass violence elsewhere amidst Pinker's claims that individual violence and «civilized» habits have improved.

Recent expert consensus recommendations for interventions following mass violence suggest that structured cognitive - behavioural interventions not be implemented until secondary stressors in the environment are under sufficient control to allow the individual to focus on the intervention (usually not sooner than three weeks after incident).2 Bisson's use of this intervention suggests that it can have an impact within the 5 — 10 week window.

Possible next steps to Bisson's intervention would be implementation in mass violence settings, traumatically bereaved populations, and different timeframes following trauma.

New legislation introduced in the state Legislature would more broadly criminalize threats of mass violence against schools and religious institutions, closing a loophole in state law that forces prosecutors to prove the conduct constituted a terroristic act.

Ideological discrepancies between familial, local, international, political, religious, and scientific stakeholders will continue to pose challenges to the excavation of graves resulting from mass violence, the analysis of the disinterred remains, and the disposition of those remains.

A photojournalistic exploration of how individuals and communities reckon with mass violence, its legacies and the challenges of rebuilding communities after conflict.

This essay will discuss the intersection of human rights and anthropology following mass violence with respect to human skeletal remains, using Cambodia as an example.

It is an insult to survivors» experience, and does nothing to help us understand what it means to survive atrocity, what it means to live a life shattered by mass violence, and to be silenced by terror.

Whether it's mass violence in history or the violence of today — like the recent mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida where 17 people were murdered by a former student.

-- Investigate system failures in the shooting and prior mass violence incidents and develop recommendations for improvements.

Legislation announced Monday by Nassau District Attorney Madeline Singas would broadly criminalize threats of mass violence against schools and religious institutions, closing a loophole in state law forcing prosecutors to prove the conduct constitutes a terroristic act.

Some scientists say this could illuminate a potential factor behind a recent spate of acts of mass violence, almost all of which have been perpetrated by men between the ages of 20 and 30.

But she said based on anecdotal evidence, it doesn't seem like perpetrators of mass violence are more likely to have mental health problems than anyone else.

The Hong Kong situation is worth monitoring, but has yet to descend into the type of mass violence that would necessitate cutting economic ties.

In each of these instances, vulnerable communities became the intentional targets of mass violence, leaving others in those communities wondering about their own safety and sense of belonging in this country.

Explosives are not readily available (though can be manufactured quite easily as you point out), but the creation of an explosive is only for one kind of mass violence - the least common kind - where deliberate planning goes into it.

The second wave of mass violence against the Armenians began during the early part of World War I, when the world's attention was on the larger picture.