Date: 17 September 2026

Time: 14:00 - 15:30 CET
 

Intimate partner violence among young people is often overlooked and remains largely invisible, despite its severe and long-lasting consequences. Young age does not make the violence any less serious, and experiences in adolescence and young adulthood shape patterns of intimate relationships later in life, making early recognition, prevention, and effective response essential.

This webinar brings together experts, practitioners, and young people to explore what drives the use of violence in young people's intimate relationships, how society currently responds, and what effective judicial and psycho-social interventions can look like.

Through a keynote presentation and a multi‑perspective panel discussion, we will move from understanding the problem to rethinking how we intervene — in ways that are child-centred, supportive and accountable, and grounded in young people’s lived experiences.

What the webinar will cover

• What we know about the prevalence, impact and characteristics of violence used by young people in their intimate relationships

• Why some young people use violence, and what sits beneath these behaviours

• How justice systems respond, and what a child‑friendly approach looks like

• What are promising practices in psycho-social intervention programmes for young people using violence in intimate relations?

• How young people themselves understand the issue and what they want adults to know

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This webinar is organised by European Network for the Work with Perpetrators of Domestic Violence (WWP EN) and the Child Friendly Justice European Network (CFJ-EN) as part of the long-term cooperation between the two networks. Through mutual learning and knowledge exchange, the two networks aim to strengthen the capacities of their members in the fields of domestic violence and child-friendly justice.

If you missed last year's joint webinar, "Towards Justice: Bridging Systemic Gaps for Child Victims of Domestic Violence," the recording is available online.