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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Anti-violence"”.
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Learning women's anti-violence work: A phenomenographic study
… in this study was phenomenography. Eight women's anti-violence workers shared insights through semi-structured interviews. Four qualitatively different ways of understanding learning in anti-violence work emerged from the data. The study suggests that women's anti-violence workers understand their …
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Violence against women on the college campus: evaluating anti-violence programming.
Violence against women is a significant problem on America's college campuses. In response to this violence, many universities have developed direct service programs to assist the survivors of violence as well as educational programs to raise awareness about and/or reduce the likelihood of such …
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Violence Against Women in Papua New Guinea: The Representation of Women in Anti-violence Campaigns
This study examines the representation of violence against women and gender-based violence campaigns in Papua New Guinea (PNG). It explores the contexts surrounding engendered violence and strives to establish the efficacy of the United Nations violence against women campaign, Sanap Wantaim (Stand …
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From Hate Crimes to Activism: Race, Sexuality, and Gender in the Texas Anti-Violence Movement
This study combines the methodologies of political and grassroots social history to explain the unique set of conditions that led to the passage of the James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Act in Texas. In 2001, the socially conservative Texas Legislature passed and equally conservative Republican Governor …
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Recuperando la Tierra: Understanding the Legacies of Social Movements through the Entanglement of Home and Urban Housing Landscapes in Costa Rica
… mid-1980s, Costa Rican housing activists made ‘anti-violence’ a central piece of their platform for housing justice in the country. Through alliances between socialist and feminist organizations, this movement sought to spatialize justice by (1) providing shelter for the urban poor; (2) …
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Violence in schools: A violence prevention project keeping the peace
… for development and implementation for this violence prevention program. Specifically the project concentrates on needs assessment, project development and implementation, teacher inclusion and in-service, life experiences, long term commitment and incentives. Also included as part of this …
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Grassroots Governance: Domestic Violence and Criminal Justice Partnerships in an Immigrant City
… involved in the governance of gender violence in Toronto, Ontario. Along with examining the agencies operating on the outskirts of the law, I also observe the organizations that contract directly with the provincial government to counsel abusers prosecuted through the city’s …
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Trajectories of commitment and instability across the legalization of same-sex marriage: an examination of the role of heterosexist experiences
… to face heterosexism (National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, 2016) and the US fails to consistently provide protections for individuals on basis of sexual orientation (Movement Advancement Project, 2017). Based on a sample of 262 LGBQ identifying individuals in same-sex relationships, …
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Grassroots Community Peacebuilding in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, Canada. Identifying Local Perceptions of the Causes of and Means of Preventing Interpersonal Violence
… of persistently high rates of interpersonal violence throughout the world, and particularly violence against women (Flaherty, 2010). This violence is epidemic and constitutes a global health problem and pervasive human rights violation. Responses are critiqued as narrow in scope, reactive and …
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From Targets to Agents: Women's Perceptions of Their Vulnerability and the Strategies They Use to Resist
… training initiatives are not funded by the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) or any national anti-violence organizations (Carlson, 2014). The NRA, on the other hand, tailors programs to instruct women to use guns for self-defense leaving them as the only national organization promoting …
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Punk pedagogy: Teaching to confront intersecting discourses of domination
… in six distinct pillars: active resistance, anti-domination, anti-conformity, emotional guidance, anti-violence, and tension and balance. Practical applications of punk pedagogy include, but are not limited to, a shift in educator ethos, the effects of image and appearance, curricular …
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The Crime Victim Movement and United States Public Culture
… public discourse about victimization by crime, violence and disaster from 1964 to the present. This work considers the predilection toward victims' rights approaches to crime and violence within the movement, and their roots in the law-and-order rhetoric of the late 1960s. The victims' rights …
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Management of violence in secondary schools of the North West Province
Violence in schools in South Africa and globally is a very serious problem. Parents, teachers, learners, and the community alike are concerned about the escalating violence amongst learners and the gravity of the acts of violence committed in schools today. The violent behaviour of learners in …
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Geographies of Feminist Activism in Berlin and Dublin: Hybrid Feminist Counterpublic Spaces of Resistance
Feminist activists have long confronted violence against women (VAW), re-defining violence and defying narratives that normalise or excuse it. This thesis explores how feminist activisms challenge violence in place in ways that elucidate the complex reality of violence across a range of spaces and …
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Intersectionality and feminist service provision: Power and difference in gender-based violence services
… insights across multiple levels of feminist anti-violence and anti-trafficking work, namely (1) the definition and analysis of violence, (2) the design of services, (3) the caring relationship between staff and service users, and (4) organisational structures and dynamics. I draw on two case …
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Learning From Rape Crisis Volunteers: Remembering The Past, Envisioning The Future
While research on sexual violence, rape crisis centres and volunteers is extensive, there are very few empirical studies that draw specifically on the experiences of rape crisis volunteers. Instead, most of the literature pertaining to rape crisis work focuses on the efforts of social workers or …
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Restorative justice and campus sexual harm: A qualitative study of the views of victim advocates
… justice is rooted in the philosophy that violence and wrongdoing should be approached in a way that centers harm and its impact on communities and individuals through the use of dialogic agreements of what actions could be taken to repair, redress, or provide steps towards healing. The …
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Cotheorizing Healing With Undergraduate Queer and Trans Latina Survivors of Power-Based Violence
<p>Current research on healing from power-based violence highlights the importance of integrating victim-survivors’ personal culture and identities into healing approaches, yet few studies actually focus on the culturally distinct healing processes of victim-survivors (O’Brien & Macy, 2016; Sinko …