Introduction Social ecology model is a human behavior theory that aims at preventing the eruption of conflicts or violence; the main philosophy advocated by the theory is that violence can be prevented if the underlying factors and forces have been looked into and can be effectively managed. The model uses a four-level social ecological model to understand violence as well as come-up with policies and mechanisms that can be used to solve the violence and of most importance to prevent the occurrence of violence among people and groups. To attain its objective, the model combines four main players of violence among communities that are societal attitudes, community influences, relationships and individuals to manage conflict and violence in communities or work places (Dahlberg, 2002). The diagram below shows the structure of a social ecology model: The concepts within the model Within the model, the four corners of considerations work together for the good of the organization; in the case of an individual, the model identifies the biological and socialization attributes that can be used to predict the likelihood of being violent or acting in a violent manner given a certain situation. When focusing on an individual, the main areas to look into are the education level, the income, and any chances of drug abuse, age, attitudes, and the economic situation of the person. Relationships are another arm of the model, when looking at relationship, the factors to consider include the relationship with peers, intimate partners, and family members, when they are analyzed, there are chances that the chance of violence can be detected and prevention measures put in place. A persons closest peers, members and people around him have a high influence on their behavior and other attributes that might blend to violence. The third level that should be of importance is the community that a person has been brought up in, in this case community means schools, work places, neighborhoods and the environment surrounding someone. What they believe and do is likely to have an influence on chances that violence might occur in a human life (Gregson, 2001). The model application and the nursing process When nurses are operating and offering their services, there is a likelihood that conflict might arise among them, when it arises the delivery of quality and timely services are hampered. When the model is used, nurse leaders will have the chance of understanding the personality, the socialization, attitude and perception that a particular nurse has. When this is understood, the nurse will be able to come-up with such policies that can prevent the occurrence of violence in the team. On the other hand, the nurse leaders can know the best motivational approach they should use with their employees (Rousseau & House, 1994). Applications of this model to community health problems When allocating duties, there are some nurses that are rigid to the program, what they would like done is to have the programs set and then they be left to manage themselves. When such a situation is understood, the nurse manager is likely to place such a nurse to program that does not change more frequent, and maybe have another nurse who is flexible to take the flexible dutie