Violence prevention in schools. Findings – Concepts – Approaches

The Corona pandemic has created significant challenges for schools. Recent surveys indicate that schools face ongoing challenges in coping with the impacts of the pandemic, that educational inequalities have widened, and that student behavior problems have increased. Against this background, school-based prevention remains of central importance.
The lecture reports on current approaches and practical examples for the further development of school prevention on the basis of projects of the Berlin Office for the Prevention of Violence.
Based on the monitoring of violence prevention, data on the incidence of violence at Berlin schools as well as further questions on information systems on the social situation at schools will be discussed. On the basis of the cross-sectional topic of violence prevention in the Berlin-Brandenburg framework curriculum and new state programmes for the prevention of violence and the development of democracy in schools in difficult situations, state policy measures are discussed. Evaluation results of model projects – such as sports-related prevention and prevention of cyber-grooming – also provide insights into the development of innovative formats of school-based prevention with children and young people as the target group.