NISB - National Individual Safety Board

NISB - National Individual Safety Board

I explain the name changes from SIPC to VIPC to NISB at the end.

The Violence Escalation Chain
Domestic Violence, Suicide, and Mass Murders do not start with a catastrophic violent event like killing a spouse or oneself or shooting up a school or a work place. It starts slowly, and progresses through a series of very predictable stages, similar to developmental stages, separated by critical thresholds or intervention points. The earlier we can intervene, and break that chain the better.

Lack of respect for each individual, or the self, or a group or so-called class. Example: US Senator Harry Reid from Nevada. See my blog entry at: Counting Respect
More examples in my "Nipping disrespect in the bud" section below.

Verbal abuse of that individual or group, or extremely negative self-talk.
Examples:
- Bullies of all types
- Many in the media
- Many members of Congress and our Executive branch

Physical abuse of that individual or group
Examples: Hitting, slapping, spanking, punching & tripping.
- This is often made easier by popular approval or permission, ignoring, or minimizing the dangers of the violence, abuse or neglect.
- This can be condoned, sanctioned, or worse encouraged by violence in advertisements. It makes the violent behavior socially acceptable.
  - One TV advertisement I've spotted that, in my opinion, crosses this critical threshold, thus encouraging personal violence and that's the ads for V8 Fusion, where several people hit others because they disapprove of their dietary choices! In the fall of 2008, they suspended these ads for a brief period. Then in January 2009 they resumed them. The latest ad had an infant, about 1 yr.old, in a high chair, hitting his mother because she is eating a single french-fry!
- Bullies, when caught always say:
  "It was just a joke";
  but it wasn't!
Individual severe Violence
Examples: Maiming, Suicide, Rape and Murders (both spree & serial).

Group violence
Examples: Abortion clinic bombings, homicide bombings throughout the Mid-East & lately elsewhere, and mass murders, such as: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold of Columbine; Seung-Hui Cho of the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre; Anders Behring Breivik the Norway Killer; Nidal Hasan's attack at Fort Hood, etc. Hitler, Che or Fidel !

Pre-Violence - Nurturing violence from inside the individual. This is where disrespect for others starts.

Creating Powerlessness.
Every Individual needs enough personal power to obtain the necessities of life: shelter, food, companionship, etc. as an Individual AND to contribute meaningfully to community. If that personal power is denied or frustrated the individual will be ill equipped to survive. It is also the first step in being on the receiving side of disrespect from others. Some religions and parents, using religion as an excuse, see this personal power or energy as 'spirit' or spunk and actively try to kill it, leaving their children less able to survive; incapable of contributing to community & hence potentially dangerous to others.

Strong individuals do not need to bully or threaten, or intimidate others, only the weak do that.
And severely weakened powerless individuals, turn to weapons to augment their diminished personal power.

Voice - The need to impact and make a contribution to one's community is as important to us humans, as food, shelter, loving and being loved etc.

Voice or Impact requires Power, Personal Power.
There is an excellent description of our need for 'Voice' in Dr. Richard Grossman's article: "Giving Your Child "Voice": The 3 Rules of Parenting": The need for Voice

What can I do to reduce this human violence, rather than quietly & unwittingly contributing to it?

Nipping disrespect in the bud:
The best way to confront disrespect is directly and immediately.
Bullies should not be given the opportunity to build momentum.

On Sunday, Jun. 26, 2011 9:07 AM Chris Wallace, Host of Fox News Sunday, said to Minnesota Representative Michelle Bachmann: "Are you a flake?"
She called him on it immediately: "Saying that would be insulting".

Chris Wallace, host Fox News Sunday has created his 'Lightening rounds', a format where he gets what he wants with no respect whatsoever for the person he's interviewing. His rules create a rapid word association which can only elicit the most trivial of answers. It's part of his overall 'gotcha' strategy which doesn't seek news for the viewer but, again, a shows disrespectful attitude towards the person he's interviewing. One Sunday he explained his 'Lightening round rules' to I believe it was General Petraeus, and the generals response was: Those are your rules not mine! Bravo for him!

See my N2N (Neighbor 2 Neighbor) Project.

Name changes:
This project was originally called:
SIPC - Suicide Investigation and Prevention Center, then renamed to:

VIPC (Violence Investigation and Prevention Center)
because the dynamics of personal violence seem the same whether one directs that energy outwards towards others, or inwards towards the self.

Finally, I changed the name to switch the emphasis from violence to Safety, hence NISB - National Individual Safety Board.

The primary purpose of the NISB is to understand the sequence, in detail, of the predictable, detectable stages leading up to violence, and the critical thresholds between them, so we can intervene earlier in this chain thus preventing the end state of violence.
The model I follow, which I consider the gold standard, is that of the NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) which investigates every disaster, even near disasters, thoroughly and completely from many, many points of view to find, if possible a guideline that will prevent similar disasters from occurring in the future. This is not what I found in psychology. When there is a disaster, a suicide, or a near disaster, an attempted suicide, the victim is buried and little if anything is learned to prevent future suicides, or other mass murders, such as shootings in schools and work places.

Last Updated: Wednesday, Apr. 4, 2012 1:42 PM
Related pages:

A mind map of the various Paradigms, Models, related articles etc. is at: Sitemap
A summary in slide format is at: Overview Slides
A Narrative Description is at Founder's Narrative

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