The objectives of this research were as follows 1) To study the causes of violent situation occurrence 2) To study the effect towards Thai Buddhists way of life 3) To study the survival life of Thai Buddhists from the violent situation in the three southern border provinces i.e. Patani province, Yala province and Narathiwas province. The instrument for data analysis from academic documents, interview, leader group discussion, questionnaire from the population were at 100 persons in each provinces, data analysis was carried out by arithmetic mean (x) and standard deviation (S.D).
The results found that:
1. The causes of violent situation occurrence in the three southern border provinces which caused from terrorists fought with government officers, drug problems , black influences, and local influences, the force of laws were not go along with local way of life of people, to conflict about interests with local influences, to dissemination of land. Most of situational actors were young gangs which were under commanding of black influences in the area.
2. The effect towards Thai Buddhists way of life from the violent situation in the three southern border provinces found that, economic effective aspect i.e. economic animal aspect, agricultural aspect, enterprise aspect, tourism aspect and investment had more effective towards way of life of Thai Buddhists because of violent situation had effected to their security in life and wealth, the people got fear to work outside, lack of income, less of investment, both private and government sectors, as a result, unemployee and Thai Buddhists got feeling that they had no stable in life and wealth, as a result, they have to immigrate themselves to others, and Buddhism effective aspect found that monks and novices could not play any religious missions according to Buddhist principles as usual, i.e’ arms around, dissemination of Dhamma, Sanggha duty and Buddhist ceremonies, all said were effected to tradition, customs and way of life of Thai Buddhist to be more and more, and sanitation effective aspect found that Thai Buddhists had happiness, immunization disease, communicable disease and tension disease in the high level, lack of doctors, medical personnel and nurses.
3. The survival life of Thai Buddhist from the violent situation in the three southern border provinces found that, the Thai Buddhists in the three southern border provinces must regard the problems or state of problems that caused of violent both inner and outside factors to fight for survive from violent and security of life and wealth throughout tension that happening by Buddha methods i.e the fold path and sympathy the way to get peaceful for way of living of Buddhists and becoming peacefulness in their life and safety.