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In our SVB Blog we inform you about news, events, new trends, outcomes of studies, new publications and much more related to school bullying and violence. Here you can interact with other users by posting your experiences, opinions, ideas and questions. All new postings must first be approved by the moderators of this blog before they get published.

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What is bullying? Search for a common definition ...

Tuesday 18. of July 2006

My name is Helga Johannessen, I'm from Norway and coordinate a website on school bullying for parents called AFAM (Anonyme Foreldre Av Mobbeofre).

I have participated in three of the online conferences of the VISIONARIES-NET project. In all three of these conferences we have spent a lot of time on finding a definition on bullying/mobbing, without success. I believe this is because the word bullying/mobbing is a word without meaning, substance. What is bullying/mobbing?

I want to collect definitions on bullying from people in different countries and cultures around the planet, from different groups...

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'Happy slapping' on rise in Europe ...?

Friday 07. of April 2006

In recent months there has been an increasing number of media reports on 'happy slapping'. According to World Wide Words 'happy slapping' is a violent craze in which an individual or gang humiliates or assaults a victim while an accomplice films it on a mobile phone. The pictures are then circulated to friends for their entertainment (other definitions can be found at Wikipedia or the Urban Dictionnary).

As the UK charity Bullying Online correctly points out 'happy slapping' is the wrong description for an assault in which th...

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