Encouraging the value of life?

Again this year as I sit to write there is another murder of a young person, and there are young people being arrested for the murder. There needs to be some kind of understanding that people are different, not all of us are the same, we will have differing views and opinions, and there are ways to discuss and sort issues out if we can't agree. We need to instill into our young people the fact that they themselves will want people to respect them, and their values and ways of doing things, so if they expect that they also need to demonstrate this. We also need, as youthworkers, maybe to change a culture, to change a thought process, to change the way people think of things, rather than the process, or the underpinning of defending, and being aggressive in our defending, I would contend that there needs to be words such as cohesion brought into societies vocab. Not everyone needs to be seen as an enemy, people all people, have tallents and abilities, and many will be different from our own. Let's try and instill into our young people values of tollerence, encouragement, cohesion, belief in each other, support, rather than the terms of defense, them and us, the enemy, only once such phrases are removed will we see some kind of change in soicety. And maybe the challenge is there for us as yoth workers to start that pocess.