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Significantly reduce all forms of violence and related death rates everywhere

See SDG 5 for violence against women, and also domestic violence.

United States

Lay-Person Tasks

  • Be compassionate to everyone.
  • Practice non-violent communication and conflict resolution skills.
  • Commit to practicing gentle parenting. This is for everyone- if you don’t have kids, you will be practicing this on your inner child, and if you have kids, you will be practicing this with both your children and your inner child. Take this love for yourself, and love others.
  • Don't listen to music or watch films/videos, or share social media posts that glorify, romanticize, or otherwise attempt to make violence look good or cool.
  • Practice green-flag behaviors. Violence is not always physical; there are many different types. Learning about the different types can be overwhelming, especially if you have had a difficult life. Something that is easier to learn is what to do right. Learn about green flags and commit to practicing one green-flag behavior per day or per week.
  • When practicing green flags comes naturally for you, commit to practicing at least one random act of compassion per week. If you are in a situation where it is not safe to publicly practice compassion, practice compassion in ways that are private or anonymous. Commit to practicing at least one compassionate action per week.
  • Be an active bystander.
  • Call out violence happening to people in your life. Most abuse is done by people the victim is close to.
  • Do a mental exercise. Think of the 5 people you are closest to. Imagine finding out they have been harming someone, and how you would respond to this information.
  • Support active bystanders and people who are experiencing antisocial punishment.
  • Call out violence happening to people in your community.
  • Call out violence happening to people in your country and around the world.
  • Learn de-escalation, as well as conflict resolution tools like active listening, compromise, and mediation.
  • Learn how to do first aid.
  • Learn first aid in response to different types of violence, especially life-threatening violence. If you learn this information online, physically rehearse what actions you would do during the situation.
  • Learn emotional first aid to address the aftermath of the violence.
  • If you feel that you are in a place in life where you are safe and emotionally supported, (this is important as the following task can cause a lot of chaos in your life) learn the following terms: Codependency, Abuse, Torture, Gaslighting, Denial, Minimization, Blameshifting, Coercive Control, DARVO, RAMCOA, Social Murder, Moral Panic, Spiritual Bypassing, Weaponized Incompetence, Fear Mongering, Future Faking, Triangulation, Narcissistic Family Roles, Narcissistic Abuse Cycle, Domestic Violence Cycle, Honeymooning. There's many more terms, these are just examples.
  • Keep the spaces you are in, or in charge of, clean. Test for toxic mold, repair it, and prevent it- toxic mold causes rage. Using an air filter also reduces anger. Keep the space clean- remove dust, trash, don't leave dirty dishes out.
  • Support gun control.
  • Don't vote for politicians that support violence, in your area and internally through foreign policy.

Potential Organizations

System

Paradigms- Ideology, Fallacy

  • White Supremacy Culture
  • Social Darwinism

Goals

  • Right to comfort/denial privilege/ forced emotional labor

Rules

  • Unhealthy Boundaries
  • Social Law

Information Flows

  • Lack of education
  • Illiteracy

Feedback loops- reinforcing and balancing

  • Societal Neglect
  • Sadism
  • Snapping under pressure

Stock-and-flow structures

  • Societal Abuse

Flows- Pipelines

Buffers- capitol and privilege

TikTok

Informational Resources

Genocide

Cancelling/Mobbing/Pile-Ons

Books

Religious Abuse/Trauma

  • Leaving the Fold - information - this book by Dr. Marlene Winell was my first introduction to the notion of religious trauma. It is primarily focused on a particular set of experiences (fundamentalist/evangelical christianity) which are directly relevant to my own life, but it does offer some helpful insights for those in other situations as well. I will note that while it informed several major steps in my own recovery process, this work is fairly narrowly focused, very much white, and rather cis-het-binary-normative in style.
  • Down at the Cross by James Baldwin - information - I found this essay (published as part of the linked book, The Fire Next Time) to resonate incredibly well with me, despite coming from a very different lived experience than my own. There are quite a few parallels between Baldwin's relationship with the christian religion and mine. Aside from its personal relevance to me, it's a pointed and moving exploration of how deeply entangled certain forms of religion really are with certain forms of oppression.
  • https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-fire-next-time-james-baldwin/6719846?ean=9780679744726

Trauma in General

  • The Body Never Lies - information - this book, along with other work by Alice Miller, this has informed a huge amount of my own understanding of trauma as a lived experience, and helped me find solidarity and practical support in my recovery. I provide this with the caveat that I am aware that Miller was not a perfect person by any stretch; this should inform any reading of her work, but cannot undo its relevance or significance. https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-body-never-lies-the-lingering-effects-of-hurtful-parenting-alice-miller/8828057?ean=9780393328639
  • The Body Keeps the Score - information - this book by Bessel van der Kolk draws extensively on the pre-existing work of Alice Miller, albeit without really crediting her. Despite this act of patriarchal theft, the book remains a useful compendium of information about the physical (somatic) effects of trauma, as well as ways to cope with them. Caveat: in my eyes, this book has a subtle but pernicious pathologizing/medicalizing attitude towards disability, and despite offering a fair bit of hope and understanding, can feel very difficult to read as a disabled person. The text is also very blatantly white, cishet, and male in its approach. https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-body-keeps-the-score-brain-mind-and-body-in-the-healing-of-trauma-bessel-van-der-kolk/6679040?ean=9780143127741
  • Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness - information - useful guidance for the ways in which increased self-awareness, particularly of the body, can lead to complex resurfacing of lived trauma. Mostly aimed at clinical practitioners rather than trauma survivors, but contains a lot of resources for survivors who - like myself - prefer to guide our own journey of recovery. https://bookshop.org/p/books/trauma-sensitive-mindfulness-practices-for-safe-and-transformative-healing-david-a-treleaven/11219083?ean=9780393709780
  • Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving (book) and the author Pete Walker's web site - information - this was one of my first major introductions to the lived experience of Complex PTSD. While I find quite a bit of Walker's advice to be narrow and likely unsuitable for everyone, it remains one of the few resources I know of that both addresses trauma from a first-person perspective of a survivor, as well as collecting practical, actionable advice for recovery. I find Walker's handling of the somatic element of trauma the most pointedly lacking, so I'd recommend this along with Alice Miller's work or perhaps van der Kolk (both are also on this resource list). Best approached with a "take what works/leave the rest" mindset. http://www.pete-walker.com/

Transcending Paradigms

  • Reduce ideological violence by teaching cultural anthropology. This would go in information flows as well.

Paradigms

  • Use new legislation and change current legislation to increase the ability of people everywhere to enforce healthy boundaries.
  • Encourage the idea of breaking laws and policies for good reasons without consequence, rather than this only happening for bad things. This is a paradigm for prosecutors, judges, etc. Prevents death from moral injury situations. Add this ability described above as a rating category on a legislative scorecard; protections for zero-liability situations. (ex. A rule designed to prevent death can be broken to prevent death.)
  • Integrate a healthy lifestyle as a culture- in context of existing cultures or development of new culture where it does not exist. (such as in highly-capitalistic and individualistic communities) This lifestyle would be both for mental health and physical health. (This would also go under the Rules category as a social law)

Self organization

Rules

  • Make emotional, psychological, and narcissistic abuse illegal. Specifically make it illegal to seek supply as this would automatically make new, advanced forms of abuse illegal.
  • Make social murder illegal.
  • Use the spirit of the law, not malicious compliance. If a law is designed to prevent death, don’t let it cause death.
  • https://radpride.wixsite.com/start-posting/post/notes-solve-modern-illness-by-turning-healthy-lifestyles-into-modern-culture
  • (I recognize this is a bad idea. We need to think about immidiate solutions to people shooting eachother.) Make it illegal to shoot a tele-presence robot, and enforce gun control. Have telepresence robots arrive at people’s homes and knock on the door. If people shoot them, take away all their guns and have court-mandated mental health treatment specifically to address psychological warfare and political brainwashing. In order to actually catch people who would shoot someone outside their door, (as right-wing people may warn each other to shoot people, not robots) the telepresence robot would need to look like a person. A skirt or apron could hide the robot’s wheels, and have an attached machine replicating knee and foot movements. The robot’s torso, arms, and head would be as hyper-realistic as possible.

Information Flows

Feedback loops

Stock-and-flow structures

  • Sustainable Development Corps Program. This would reduce violence preventatively, if someone is worried about being a victim of violence they just make contact and are immediately escorted to the program.
  • Promote and expand services for people struggling with violent ideologies, such as Life-After-Hate

Numbers

  • Gathering Evidence: Blue light and purple light is needed to gather evidence of bodily harm against people of color.
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