The High-Level Expert Meeting “Tackling Violence in Schools” pursued the following objectives:
1. Sharing of recent global and European data and research in combating violence against children in school.
2. Consolidating the various national and international methodologies, strategies, initiatives and good practices, including human rights education and education for democratic citizenship, to make schools free from violence.
3. Identifying instruments, methods and recommendations for the follow-up work of the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children, to prevent and address violence against children in schools.
4. Defining the role that the Council of Europe could further play in addressing violence in schools via its future Council of Europe Strategy for the Rights of the Child (2012-2015) to be adopted by the Committee of Ministers in early 2012.