Fire up creativity - Artist meeting in London

On 30th and 31th March 2015 CEINAV brought together all their 4 artist researchers in London Metropolitan University: Iona Roisin from the UK team, Lana Zdravković from the Slovenian team, Ninette Rothmüller from the German team and Raquel Felgueiras from the Portuguese team. We exchanged our experiences and views about working with marginalized, deprived and discriminated people in the context of violence as well as debated about methodology we will use on the art workshops with the survivors of violence. In each country we will moderate the creative process which will be based on the stories created out of the interviews with the survivors but those will just inform the artists; the art workshops will not be built around the stories as some kind of script.

In each country one or two art workshops will be implemented for all three forms of violence. Whilst there has to be a set of basic parameters for the workshops some of the more specific questions cannot be the same across the four country contexts, as they are dependent on the particulars of who and how many agree to take part in the workshops, where they are located geographically and how each artist develops the workshop concept.  There are, therefore, layers of flexibility and variability in the creative process which we should consider an asset, part of what the project is in fact about – the processes and creative outcomes will not be the same, they are cultural encounters!

The process needs to produce something – a creative outcome – from what participants want to communicate about intervention that will be accessible to various audiences. 

All artists will work within their fields of experience having in mind that including creative art in the research project is a certain experiment, both for artists and researchers. But since we have high ethical standards and respect the decisions and wishes of the people we will work with we hope it will be fruitful for all of us. 

Lana Zdravkovic

Alle working paper erreichbar

In 2014 führten die fünf CEINAV Partner im jeweiligen Land zwei multi-professionelle Workshops  zu jeder der drei Formen von Gewalt, die im Projekt untersucht werden: Gewalt in Paarbeziehungen, körperliche Misshandlung und Vergewaltigung von Kindern, und Frauenhandel. Insgesamt haben über 250 Fachkräfte in vier Ländern an diesen Workshops teilgenommen und anhand einer typischen Fallgeschichte über die Herausforderungen effektiver Intervention diskutiert.  Die Diskussionen wurden zunächst in jedem Land im Hinblick auf die Handlungsorientierungen und die ethischen und praktischen Schwierigkeiten analysiert. Die Ergebnisse wurden sodann in einem mehrtägigen Seminar Ende September in Porto mit dem gesamten Projektteam und den assoziierten Partnern diskutiert. Dabei ging es darum, die in der Tat recht unterschiedlichen Vorgehensweisen zu verstehen und die dahinter liegenden Selbstverständlichkeiten sichtbar zu machen. Die zwölf working papers wurden danach überarbeitet und der Post mit den Links nach und nach aktualisiert. Seit dem 2. Februar sind sie alle online zugänglich. Kommentare sind sehr willkommen!

Working Papers on Intervention published

Right in time for a little early christmas present we have nearly all of our working papers on intervention polished and published.

The first versions were written for the discussions during the big porto meeting. After the working seminar all the authors reworked and polished their papers and now we have most of them online (two are missing for technical reasons but will be added as soon as we can). All of them will also be accessible via the CEINAV Website at London MET.

We have written a background paper to decribe our method read the papers here:

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Read the working papers:

Working Paper on Intervention Against Child Abuse and Neglect in Germany

Working Paper on Intervention Against Child Abuse and Neglect in Portugal

Working Paper on Intervention Against Child Abuse and Neglect in Slovenia

Working Paper on Intervention Against Child Abuse and Neglect in UK

Working Paper on Intervention Against Domestic Violence in Germany

Working Paper on Intervention Against Domestic Violence in Portugal

Working Paper on Intervention Against Domestic Violence in Slovenia

Working Paper on Intervention Against Domestic Violence in UK

Working Paper on Intervention Against Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation in Germany

Working Paper on Intervention Against Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation in Portugal

Working Paper on Intervention Against Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation in Slovenia

Working Paper on Intervention Against Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation in UK

Hearing in celebration of 25yrs CRC

The Children Commission (Kinderkommission) of the German Federal Parliament (Bundestag) invited to a hearing in celebration of 25 years CRC on 12 November 2014. The Members of Parliament posed 20 questions concerning the status of the implementation of children’s rights in Germany. Hearing and participation of the child, complaint procedures and issues related to children in families from a minority group or with a migration background are core topics. As one of the four experts, Dr. Thomas Meysen will be able to refer to the first findings from CEINAV on cultural encounters in interventions against child abuse and neglect.

Porto Seminar Video

While we had the 5 day working Seminar in Porto we videorecorded some of our discussions. We would like to share some highlights and interesting thoughts with you to give you a little insight into our work:

Working Seminar in Porto - A major milestone

CEINAV Porto 5 Days Seminar, 28th Sept—4th Oct 2014

From September 28 to October 4, researchers of the Project CEINAV met in FPCEUP, University of Porto, to share preliminary findings of the 1st stream of the research.

Based on a total of 24 workshops with professionals, the five partners wrote working papers on the intervention patterns and approaches to the different forms of violence in each country. These papers will be revised after the discussions in Porto and then made public online.

With an intense and productive work, the team reviewed similarities and specificities among the four countries concerning intervention in domestic violence, child physical abuse and neglect, and trafficking of human beings for sexual exploitation. The debates focused sequences of intervention in different countries, the interpretative frames of the legal and professional practices, and cultural premises that configure the relationship between professionals and survivors in each country.

Public Presentation of CEINAV - October 1, 2014

Within the Porto Research Meeting, a Public Presentation of CEINAV was held in FPCEUP, with - Prof. Maria José Magalhães, national coordinator of CEINAV, researcher in FPCEUP

- Prof. Doutora Liz Kelly, coordinator of research team in UK, researcher in London Metropolitan University

- Prof.  António Magalhães, vice-president of Scientific Board of FPCEUP

- Prof. Fátima Machado, vice-rectoress of University of Porto

- Prof. Emeritus Carol Hagemann-White, Project Leader CEINAV, and researcher in Department of Educational and Cultural Studies, University of Osnabruck, Germany

- Prof. Vlasta Jalusic, coordinator of the Slovenian team and researcher in Peace Institut de Ljubliana Eslovénia

- Thomas Meysen, coordinator of the research team of Heidelberg, researcher in German Institute for Youth and Human Sciences

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Meeting with Associate Partners, October 1 and 2, 2014

The 5 Days Seminar included a Meeting with the Associate partners, held on the 1st and 2nd of October, with representatives from Black Association of Women Step Out Ltd. (BAWSO), Cardiff, Wales; IMKAAN, London, England; Association for Non Violent Communication, Ljubljana; Society KLJUC – Centre for fight against trafficking in human beings, Ljubljana; Association against sexual abuse, Ljubljana Slovenia; IGFH - Internationale Gesellschaft für erzieherische Hilfen (Federation of Educative Communities), Germany; Federation of Women’s Counselling Centres and Hotlines (bff), Germany; Associação Projeto Criar – Association against child abuse, from Porto, Portugal, and UMAR-Association of Women, Alternative and Answer, from Portugal.

In the meeting, researchers and representatives of the APs debated the preliminary results of the first stream of the research, especially with regard to ethical issues that could be explored further, and their implications for next streams, in the pathway to understand the cultural premises in intervention.

Future directions of fruitful cooperation were built having in mind the artistic process that will go parallel with the next streams of the CEINAV research.

CEINAV on the ENGV conference and meeting the president

Four members of the CEINAV team attended the European Network on Gender and Violence Conference in Malta April 21st-23rd, attended by 100 people.  The network provides a supportive and expert space for established and new scholars to present their work. We discussed papers from many perspectives and national contexts and Liz Kelly from CEINAV gave one of the keynotes on approaches to prevention, drawing on a conceptual framework from a previous EU project some of the partners had worked on together.  This framework suggests prevention efforts need to be more strongly theorised, targeting specific pathways that connect the structural, normative and biographical.  After the meeting Carol Hagemann White, the Director of our HERA project met the recently appointed president of Malta who has a personal interest in our topic.

Liz Kelly

CEINAV presented to the Slovenian public on 27th February 2014

On February 27th 2014, the CEINAV project was presented to the Slovenian scholar's and wider public.  Vlasta Jalušič, one of the principal investigators of Cultural Encounters in Interventions against Violence at the Peace Institute,  has spoken about the content, methods, results and project partnership. 



 
Three other Slovenian HERA projects were introduced at the event which was organised by the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and attended by the representatives of the Slovenian Ministry of Education, Science   and Sports. The audience, mostly young scholars, has shown most  interest in the  projects development and partnerships. The representatives of the Ministry of Education, Science and Sports have announced the third HERA tender.

Vlasta Jalušič 

CEINAV article in newspaper of Osnabrueck

Prof. Dr. Carol Hagemann-White, who is principle investigator and also project leader in CEINAV has her office at the University of Osnabrueck. A newspaper interviewed her about the project. Read the whole article here.