PDA Bullying participation in World Anti-Bullying Forum #WABF2023

ABOUT WORLD ANTI-BULLYING FORUM

World Anti-Bullying Forum (WABF) is an international forum and biennial conference focused on understanding and preventing bullying, cyberbullying, and other forms of interpersonal violence against children and young people. The World Anti-Bullying Forum is a meeting place for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers in the work against bullying.

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Almost 600 delegates from more than 30 countries attended the WABF23, the 4th WABF. Attendees include school administrators, scholars, social media representatives, governmental policymakers, community leaders, and other youth-serving practitioners, and come from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds – including education, social work, computer science, information technology, nursing, pediatrics, adolescent development, psychology, psychiatry, and counseling.

The forum was organized by Dr. Dorothy Espelage, and co-emceed by Dr.Sameer Hinduja. The Organizing Partners were the Swedish NGO Friends, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and the University of North Carolina School of Education (UNC), and the Presenting Sponsor BRP.  

The forum also featured special guests such as Her Royal Highness The Crown Princess of Denmark, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper, UNESCO Program Officer Yongfeng  Liu, and the Dean of UNC’s School of Education,Dr. Fouad Abd-El-Khalick.

The aims of the World Anti-Bullying Forum are:

• To address and prevent bullying and other forms of violence among children in accordance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child and Agenda 2030. 
• To facilitate the sharing of knowledge and best practices among researchers, policymakers, and practitioners on preventing bullying among children. 
• To gather, coordinate, and make research based knowledge on preventing bullying among children easily accessible globally and digitally

2023 WABF was Hosted by School of Education at the University of North Carolina (UNC) in North Carolina, U.S.A. from October 25 to 27 2023. You can find WABF23 Program by clicking here.

PDA BULLYING KNOWLEDGE SHARING IN WABF

Good practices in Prevention, Detection and Action in a bullying situation: Study of the situation in Catalonia and its practical application at the community level - Oral presentation (15 minutes)

The objective is:

1. Give visibility to the welfare work that is being done in Catalan schools in relation to good practices and in the response to the appearance of a case (Study of Good Practices in Catalonia and example of municipal network of Castell-Platja d’Aro i S’Agaró.
2. Provide tools to the administrations, as well as to the schools and families, to improve the approach to bullying and cyberbullying from strategies of coexistence and also from the response protocols.
3. To make known PDA Certification in Good Practices

Conclusion of our presentation:

• Networking among all members of the teaching team, families and external professionals is key.

• The approach from a community and educational level, requires networking between municipalities, educational centers, police, training sports professionals, families, students, and professionals from different fields of social welfare, childhood, youth, etc.). Moreover, it is necessary to emphasize the recognition of the good practices implemented, as well as to make visible and disseminate the advances and achievements in the eradication of violence.

• PDA Bullying work is not only aimed at educational centers, but also intends to create a network, a Code of Good Practices, a Community Approach…

The collaboration of the social fabric in the city of Barcelona in the design and implementation of comprehensive prevention and detection programs within the framework of the certification of good practices for addressing bullying - Poster Presentation

Promoting actions to improve the well-being of children and youth is a shared responsibility that must be promoted by the public authorities, the educational community, families and the children and adolescents themselves. To this effect, responding to bullying from a perspective of child’s rights requires collaborative work to move towards the sustainable development goals of the 2030 agenda that guarantee a violence-free.

INSIGHTS FROM WABF

Across three full days, there were many amazing keynotes, including ones by Dr.Sameer Hinduja, Enrique Chaux, Heng Choon (Oliver) Chan, Debra J. Pepler, Kevin Runions, and Christina Salmivalli.

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UNESCO "Defining school bullying and its implications on education, teachers and learners"

WORLD ANTI-BULLYING FORUM TAKEOVERS

• This opportunity that has allowed us to present our work in relation to the comprehensive approach to bullying and cyberbullying

• Learn from our friend-entities and organizations around the world

• Develop insights that we will implement in our practice

• Strengthen our network by establishing new relationships that we hope will lead to collaborations.

WORLD ANTIBULLYING FORUM 2025

June 11-13, 2025, we welcome you to The Centre for Learning Environment at University of Stavanger, Norway!

Previous World Anti-Bullying Forum has been hosted in Sweden in 2017 and 2021, and in Ireland in 2019.