CEINAV presented on the IInd European Conference on Domestic Violence

Liz Kelly, Bianca Grafe, Carol Hagemann-White & Maria José Magalhaes

Liz Kelly, Maria José Magalhaes & Carol Hagemann-White

One of our CEINAV PIs, Maria José Magalhães, was deeply involved into hosting the 2nd European Conference on Domestiv Violence this year. From 6th to 9th September 2017 the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the University of Porto welcomed researchers from around the world to share experiences and research interest. In more than a hundred different parallel sessions there were more than 400 presentations with research focusing on Domestic / Interpersonal Violence, Sexual Violence, Victim Support, Risk Assessment, Prevention, Work with perpetrators, Media representation, Justice System, Health System, Femicide and many more. Additionally there were workshops and a poster session.

Keynotes were delivered by Marianne Hester, Carolina Överlien, Walter S. DeKeseredy, Marceline Naudi, María Lameiras Fernández, Marsha Scott and Liz Kelly (CEINAV PI 3). Carol Hagemann-White was in the round table on ethics and several presentations of CEINAV as well as of the Bystander Project were given by Maria José Magalhães, Carol Hagemann-White and Bianca Grafe. Thus the CEINAV project team was once again very visible and active during this huge conference.


 

Bystanders Presentation

Bystanders – Developing responses to sexual harassment among young people is an international project promoted by the Faculty of Psichology and Educational Sciences of the University of Porto which focuses on Sexual Harassment (SH) against teenage girls and young women. The other partners in this project are the United Kingdom, Malta and Slovenia. The Project Bystanders is a result of the excellent collaboration between the partners in the Project CEINAV – Cultural Encounters in Intervention Against Violence, lead by Carol Hagemann-White. 

Sexual Harassment is defined by unwanted physical and nonphysical verbal and cyber sexual attention, including a wide range of behaviors that victimize women and girls. Boys and young men may also be victims of SH, especially when they do not meet the standards of the hegemonic masculinity socialization.

People who see the violent behavior and can do something to help the victims are also involved in these situations — they are bystanders. The Project Bystanders aims to work with bystanders to improve awareness and responses to SH in schools. 

Hence, the objectives of the Project are:

- to increase knowledge and awareness about SH in high school students, teachers and other school staff in PT, Sl, UK and Mt

- to develop and deliver a training program for young people and school staff enabling them to intervene in situations of SH and/or assault as bystanders

- to increase the motivation of bystanders to stop SH in high schools

- to develop a manual and materials enabling young people to deal with SH at school and its surroundings, adapted to the context and cultures of the four countries

- to work with a whole school approach to policies and protocols on SH

- to compare the implementation and effectiveness of the program within and between the four countries

The Project Team:

Portugal:

Faculty of Phycology and Education Sciences University of Porto:

•       Maria José Magalhães:

UMAR:

Women’s Association, Alternative and Response

•       Ana Guerreiro

•       Cátia Pontedeira

United kingdom:

London Metropoly University

•       Liz Kelly

Malta

University of Malta

•       Aleksndar Dimitrijevic

•       Marcelline Naudi

•       Rodianne Ellul Buhagiar

•       Barbara Stelnaszek

Slovenia

Peace Institute - Institute for Comtemporary Social and Political Studies

•       Vlasta Jalušič

•       Maja Ladić

•       Lana Zdravkovic

DNK   

•       Anita Jerina

•       Vučenović

•       Sabina Cobec

 

"Experiences of Intervention Against Violence" now available!

News live from the WAVE conference

Some of the team are attending the WAVE conference in Berlin, Germany, right now and see our anthology "Experiences of Intervention Against Violence. An Anthology of Stories" for the first time! We are thrilled to announce, that the book is available as of now!

The five CEINAV teams sought to hear the voices of women and young people with a minority or migration background who had travelled through a history of violence and intervention. From these interviews an anthology of stories was created, in which the women and young people describe when and how intervention helped them or failed to help, and what they think could be done better. The anthology has been artistically designed and aims to be widely accessible. All stories were translated into English next to the original language as an invitation to think about how experiences may differ or be similar in different countries of Europe. The anthology is now available as a print edition and also open accessonline (click!)

 

Neuigkeiten live von der WAVE Konferenz

Einige Teammitglieder befinden sich gerade auf der WAVE Konference in Berlin und nehmen dort das erste Mal unsere Geschichtensammlung "Experiences of Intervention Against Violence. An Anthology of Stories" in die Hände! Wir freuen uns zu berichten, dass das Buch ab heute erhältlich ist!Die fünf CEINAV teams strebten an, die Stimmen von Frauen und Jugendlichen mit einem Migrationshintergrund, die Gewalt und Intervention durchlebt hatten, zu hören. Aus diesen Interviews wurde eine Geschichtensammlung kreiert in der Frauen und Jugendliche beschreiben, wann und wie Intervention ihnen half oder nicht und was sie denken, was man verbessern könnte. Die Sammlung wurde künstlerisch illustriert und zielt darauf ab, für die breite Öffentlichkeit zugänglich zu sein. Alle Geschichten wurden ins Englische übersetzt und neben der Originalsprache abgedruckt, um dazu einzuladen über die Unterschiede der Erfahrungen oder ihre Gemeinsamkeiten in verschiedenen europäischen Ländern nachzudenken. Die Geschichtensammlung ist nun als Paperback und als PDF (open access) verfügbar (klick!).

CEINAV outputs available!

CEINAV has achieved one of its main goals: to develop a transnational foundation for ethical practice in intervention, taking a holistic view of the forms of violence we have studied, while attending to differences. The paper “Transnational Foundations for Ethical Practice inInterventions Against Violence Against Women and Child Abuse” results from in-depth discussions in the entire four-country team, and was written by Liz Kelly and Thomas Meysen with an approach that speaks directly to practitioners and the challenges they face. We make this paper available in the four languages of our project, and invite others to translate into further languages (but please let us know if you do so!)

 

CEINAV hat  eines seiner Hauptziele erreicht: Transnationale Grundlagen für eine ethische Praxis bei Interventionen entwickeln und dabei einerseits eine ganzheitliche Sicht auf die verschiedenen Gewaltformen die wir erforscht haben richten, während wir gleichzeitig ein Auge auf die Unterschiede behalten. Das Papier “Transnationale Grundlagen für eine ethische Praxis bei Interventionen wegen Gewalt gegen Frauen und Kinder” ist ein Ergebnis intensiver Diskussion im ganzen Vier-Länder-Team. Geschrieben haben es Liz Kelly und Thomas Meysen in einer Weise die direkt zu Fachkräften spricht und die Herausforderungen denen sie gegenüberstehen anerkennt. Wir machen dieses Papier in den vier Sprachen unseres Projektes zugänglich und laden Andere ein, es in ihre Sprachen zu übersetzen (aber bitte lassen Sie uns wissen, wenn sie das tun!)

HERA closing event in Prague

The CEINAV leading team (project leader prof. Carol Hagemann White and principal investigators prof. Liz Kelly, prof. Maria Jose Magalhaes, prof. Vlasta Jalusic and dr. Thomas Meysen) participated at the HERA closing event in Prague (15-16 September 2016).

left to right: Thomas Meysen, Liz Kelly, Vlasta Jalusic, Carol
Hagemann-White, Maria Jose Magalhaes

 In a session on "the spoken word" we read stories from the anthology  ("Experiences of Intervention Against Violence. An Anthology of Stories. Cultural Encounters in Intervention Against Violence, Vol II) which will be published soon. Participants found it very moving.

Final presentation of the CEINAV project in Slovenia

The final presentation of the CEINAV project in Slovenia happened on Wednesday, 31st August 2016 at the Slovenian Ethnographic Museum in Ljubljana. The event was opened with general overview of the project – its phases, methodology and activities – by dr. Lana Zdravković, followed by the presentation of the document “Transnational Foundation for Guidelines for Ethical Practice in Interventions against Interpersonal Violence”, with the emphasis on the issue of voices of the survivors, and elaboration of the ethical dilemmas in interventions – especially minority cases – by dr. Vlasta Jalušič.

The introduction was followed by the premiere screening of the documentary film “Everything I Told Them” (the first public screening of the film in Slovenia), after which the public applauded and expressed their satisfaction.

 Jasna Podreka, Katarina Vučko, Vlasta Jalušič, Mojca Dobnikar, Katja Zabukovec Kerin, Dragan Petrovec

The second part of the closing event continued with the panel “Violence in the Private Sphere and Ethic of Intervention”, conceptualized and moderated by dr. Vlasta Jalušič. Participants were: Katja Zabukovec Kerin, Association for non-violent communication; dr. Jasna Podreka, Faculty of Arts; Katarina Vučko, The Peace Institute; Mojca Dobnikar, the founder of the first SOS telephone for women and children; and dr. Dragan Petrovec, Institute of criminology at the Faculty of Law. They all addressed particular issues from their expertise and work and opened a further debate on our findings, particularly in the EU and Slovenian context.  

Approximately 30 people attended the event. Wider public, students, scholars and some professionals who previously took active part in the project's workshops were present as well. Unfortunately, no survivors (victims of various types of violence considered within the research) attended the event due to other obligations. The great majority of the participants were very interested and impressed with the results of the research. A small group questioned why CEINAV did not study violence against men as well; the researchers explained this by reference to the Istanbul Convention.

National Closing Event Germany

The CEINAV Closing Event for Germany, “Frames and ethics in interventions against violence” took place in Berlin on June 2-3, 2016. The teams from the University of Osnabrück and DIJuF were joined by Maria José Magalhães from Portugal and Jackie Turner from London. Around 65 experts working in the areas of at least one of the three forms of violence and several interviewpartners attended the conference and discussed together with us the issues of ethics and culture in interventions against interpersonal violence.

The program combined presentations of project results with reflections from “outside” by Prof. Hans Thiersch, University of Tübingen, and Dr. Heinz Kindler, German Youth Institute. The workshops brought the results of the study in conversation with practitioners who reflected on them to initiate lively discussions. We exhibited the artwork the women and young people created and also showed a part of the film the Slovenian team produced with the voices of women, young people, professionals and researchers. Both made quite an impression.

Participants also enjoyed looking at a partial pre-print of the multilingual anthology of stories of women and young people and were very interested to use the finished product in their work. 

The two days ended with a first introduction of the “Transnational Ethical Foundation for Interventions Against Interpersonal Violence” which provoked a profound appreciation as well as a desire to continue the discussions about the various issues covered on the two days such as self-determination, listening to women and children/young people and culture. Making decisions about interventions can be difficult for professionals in their every-day-work and the conference seems to have been a welcomed possibility to reflect those difficulties and talk about ways to handle it in an ethically reflected way.