easy-digital-downloads domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/erikphillip/public_html/conflictresearchgroupintl.com/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6121I was contacted by a young man whom my works had influenced. He’s developing his own work and asked about copyright infringement issues. My answer surprised even me…. **** No don’t worry. An idea is not copyrightable — but a specific model is (e.g. that violence is somehow predictable is not copyrightable, but Five Stages of Violent … [Read more…]
There’s an old saw about every story having two sides. My wife — an ex journalist– scoffs at that idea and replies, “Two? You’re lucky if there’s only 16!” I tell you that because anytime someone claims to understand the ‘real motivations’ of something my bullshit detectors start flashing and sounding off.I have a term … [Read more…]
I have a serious problem with the abuse of the word ‘survivor.’ Well, more specifically people who have extremely limited experience with violence trying to ’empower victims’ by calling them survivors. See thing about being a survivor is there’s this little complication called death. As in, you die if you don’t get off your ass … [Read more…]
Our monkey judgments and assumptions are like looking out the windows of our apartment building. They distance us from actual events. They color our perceptions of what we think we see (e.g., the few who did witness the first attack assumed it was a domestic dispute). Looking from one particular building also limits what we … [Read more…]
He is big. He is loud. He is scary. He starts yelling at you from twenty feet away. You tell him to “BACK OFF!!!” He walks straight up to you. He stands directly in front of you and reaches to grab you. You punch him in … [Read more…]
. The Violation Triangle is a model that explains the creation and existence of human violations in society both on an individual basis and also on a systemic multi-incident basis. And it shows the steps necessary to reduce the violations. The Violation Triangle utilizes the same three element concept of the Fire Triangle. In order … [Read more…]
Someone asked me how In the Name of Self-Defense is different than my earlier works. *** 1) My first book Cheap Shots was a brain dump of a 28 year old thug trying to get out of being that. In a very real sense, it was all the stuff I subconsciously knew, but I didn’t … [Read more…]
If you have any interest or involvement in the area of sexual assault prevention, most likely you have been exposed to the raging ideological battles revolving around the existence or non-existence of Rape Culture and its effect on the rate of rape and sexual assault in society. Briefly, the concept behind Rape Culture is that … [Read more…]
Which type of self-defense training is best for you? Type in “self-defense” in an internet search and you will receive a huge amount of hits. You will receive web links to all sorts of self-defense training systems. Upon reviewing these sites, you will notice that most make similar claims to be practical, realistic, and … [Read more…]
25 Everyday Examples Of Rape Culture http://www.rolereboot.org/culture-and-politics/details/2014-03-25-everyday-examples-rape-culture/ My response to this article follows: ******** I don’t refer to the “‘fallacy’ of rape culture” but I do question it’s accuracy. First off, experience has taught me to question any term that is both self-defined and controlled by the people who claim to be the ‘victim’ of … [Read more…]