ICCO violence integrative prevention and restoration (PAR) model
The Violence Integrative Prevention and Restoration (PAR) Model incorporates the "Five Bodies" model — a concept used throughout the International Center's compassion initiatives.
Three white papers and an information sheet on the PAR Model are listed on the papers and articles page.
A new framework for describing and understanding violence; Evidence-based; Focus on issues of power; Integrates the 5 bodies — physical, emotional mental, situation and transpersonal; Public health — nonpolitical, nonreligious; Restorative; Defines the process from which violence emerges; Integrates neuroscience, epidemiology, etc.
The Violence Integrative Prevention and Restoration (PAR) Model is a new, evidence-based, compassionate approach to violence response and prevention built upon a public health foundation. It is a significant departure from the traditional “punitive” model for dealing with violence. The PAR Model incorporates new thinking about and language for describing violence, provides a new framework for preventing and responding to violence, and presents an effective alternative to the commonly used traditional punitive-based approaches for dealing with violence.
The PAR Model is one of three closely related models that deal with power along a continuum from positive to negative. The graphic below illustrates this spectrum.
The Integrative Power Management Model (IPM2) is applied to the International Center's leadership program as well as to the healthy communities efforts. The Integrative Conflict Management Model (IPM2) is applied to the International Center's work with mediation and conflict management.
The PAR Model provides a framework within which a broad range of programs and practices can operate without the inhibiting barriers found in punitive approaches.
Like the IPM2, the PAR Model integrates a broad range of diverse disciplines including social theory, the public health approach, developmental theory, evolutionary science (archeology, biology, etc.), psychology, neuroscience, and physiology. The Model also incorporates and integrates the concept of the "five bodes" — the physical, emotional, mental, environmental and the spiritual aspects of human existence.
Although the PAR Model is derived from the IPM2, it is the most developed and tested of the three variations of the IPM2. The PAR Model has been successfully demonstrated in international, educational, and prison settings.
The Model
Addresses the public health challenge of violence.
The model integrates social, psychological, and ethical elements.
The first focus is on the prevention of violence.
The second focus is on the restoration of those who have been exposed to violence.
This is a model — a utilitarian way of describing, understanding, and creating responses to violence.
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