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The Event

What effects does violence in the home or in an early relationship have on children's behaviour and success at school? What are behaviours and signs that teachers can watch out for? During the launch event for our expert paper “Educational Sabotage: A form of abuse against children and youth with potentially long-term consequences”, Prof. Carolina Øverlien shared insights from her research.

The Speaker

Carolina Øverlien is professor of social work at Stockholm University and lead researcher at the Norwegian Center for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies (NKVTS). Professor Øverlien has researched Youth Intimate Partner Violence (YIPV) for many years and is currently leading the three-year research project 'Drawing the Line' on sexual YIPV at NKVTS, Oslo. The project focuses on young perpetrators and victims as well as the justice system and schools’ understanding and handling of this violence.

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Watch our webinar to gain

• knowledge of the evidence base underpinning bystander intervention as a public health approach to violence prevention.
• an understanding of what bystanders can do to prevent and respond to gender-based harms and tackle the root causes of violence and abuse.
• a better understanding of bystanders’ barriers when deciding whether to intervene and how to overcome them

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Dr Nathan Eisenstadt is a Senior Research Associate at University of Bristol Medical School working on domestic abuse behaviour change with a focus on men and masculinities. He is co-founder of Kindling Transformative Interventions, which designs and delivers evidence-led bystander intervention programmes in universities, communities, sports clubs and workplaces and is currently working with the Welsh Government on a national bystander intervention programme to prevent and respond to GBV. With Rachel Fenton at the University of Exeter and partners at Exeter City Football Club, Nathan co-designed and delivered a bystander intervention programme tackling GBV in football and sport which is currently being rolled out in other parts of the UK. At University of Bristol, Nathan is currently working on REPROVIDE, a pioneering randomised controlled trial of a domestic abuse perpetrator programme for men, he was lead qualitative evaluator on the Drive Project – a national pilot addressing high-risk perpetrators of domestic abuse.

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By watching this webinar, you will gain a better understanding of how motivational interviewing and individual motivational plans can decrease the risk of perpetrators dropping out of your programme and increase the chance of behavioural changes.

The Speaker

Dr Marisol Lila is a full professor of social psychology at the University of Valencia, Spain. She conducts research on public attitudes toward intimate partner violence (IPV) and the judicial system’s response to IPV perpetrators. Since 2006, she is the designer and head of an intervention programme for IPV perpetrators at the University of Valencia (Programa Contexto). She also has designed and evaluated a motivational tool to increase participants’ adherence to IPV perpetrator programmes.

The Event

Perpetrator programmes are a crucial part of violence prevention systems and have the important role of addressing violence at its source and holding perpetrators accountable. In this webinar, we shared results from a mapping of 33 perpetrator programmes in 24 European countries and recommendations for improving crucial areas of European perpetrator work.

The Speaker

Since completing a Masters degree in Psychology, Ola has been focusing on work in the field of domestic violence prevention. She is trained in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy and Non-Violent Communication and has three years of experience working as a consultant at the Polish National Hotline for Domestic Violence Victims. She also worked as a psychologist providing one on one psychological support for survivors of domestic violence and in a perpetrator programme before moving from Warsaw to Berlin and joining the WWP EN team.

The Event

Perpetrator programmes play a crucial role in reducing violence and improving lives globally. In this event, we unveiled the WWP EN European Standards for Perpetrator Programmes which outline minimum requirements for safe and effective interventions targeted at male perpetrators of intimate partner violence.
Watch the recording above to learn about these groundbreaking standards, the research on which they are based and how programmes can use them to show funders the good quality of your work.

The Speakers

Dr Alessandra Pauncz, WWP EN Executive Director, has been working in the field of domestic violence for 20 years. She advocated and worked for victims of domestic violence as a shelter worker, psychologist, researcher, manager, trainer, and in funding and conscious raising at a local, provincial, regional, national and European level. She founded and ran the first perpetrator programme in Italy (CAM – Centre for abusive men) and set up the national Italian network for perpetrator work (Relive).

Prof Dr Marianne Hester is recognized as a leading researcher of gender-based violence internationally and has written about many aspects of violence and abuse including domestic and sexual violence, child contact, domestic abuse in LGBT+ communities and forced marriage.

Sandra Jovanović Belotić, WWP EN Training & Capacity Building Manager, is a psychologist with ten years of experience in the field of domestic violence. She has provided psychological support for women and children exposed to violence, ran the first Serbian perpetrator group and founded the National Network for the Work with Perpetrators of Violence Serbia (OPNA). She has been working as an expert consultant in the field of perpetrator work, focusing on the standardization of perpetrator programmes, and their set-up in accordance with the provisions of the Istanbul convention. Additionally, she is supporting capacity-building of professionals through training and supervision.

Dr Berta Vall Castelló is the WWP EN Research and Development Manager and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Psychology, Educational and Sport Sciences (FPCEE), Blanquerna, Ramon Llull University. She has extensive expertise in research and data analysis in addressing gender-based violence (GBV) through perpetrator work, she is responsible for the implementation of the IMPACT Outcome Monitoring Toolkit for the evaluation of perpetrator programmes across Europe. She has coordinated and participated in several competitive EU-funded projects.