Fearful to Fearless: Design of ICT Based Learning Tools to Combat Extremism, Terrorism and Violence

Abstract

Violence comes in many forms. Governments across the globe spend a lot, on protecting their citizens from violence and studying violence. Modern forms of violence extensively borrow from culture, religion, history and mythology: which is violence towards women, children, and the vulnerable. The population most affected by violence are also the poor, who are without resources or organized knowledge to resist violence. They also lack resources to practice skills of non-violence. Though education is hailed as a unanimous choice to combat extremism, terrorism and violence, current education-job system is not sufficient to combat or reduce violence. Currently, there is no clear practical adaptable methods in the public domain, for non-violence education. Short audio-video tutorials have been successfully used to improve health and nutrition of newborns in India. This article will explore the extension of this method to adapt to the creation of skills needed to practice non-violence in adverse conditions by self-learning. Considering the large scale of violence across the globe, coming up with an adaptable mobile technology based resource is of importance. Online mobile learning can reach the remote and dangerous places of the planet, where one-to-one interaction is not possible.