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Understand what violence can look like, why it happens, and what we can do to prevent it.

Recognising violence

  • Coercive control and non-physical violence
    • Love bombing
    • Gas lighting
    • Financial abuse
    • Tech abuse
    • Stealthing
  • Family violence against men
  • Health impacts of violence
  • Consent
    • What does it mean to give consent?
    • Consent in long-term relationships

Drivers of violence

  • Gender inequality
    • The gender pay gap and preventing violence against women
    • Why do we keep talking about housework?
    • Eroticising violence: how pornography is creating dangerous sexual scripts
  • Harmful ideas about masculinity
  • Racism
  • Colonialism
  • Transphobia
  • Ableism
  • Ageism
  • Reinforcing factors of violence
    • Alcohol and other drugs
    • Experience of family violence in childhood
    • General violence acceptance
    • Mental health
    • Climate disaster

How do we prevent violence?

  • How primary prevention, early intervention, crisis response and recovery work together to end violence
  • Why men need to talk about violence against women
  • The power of local sport to prevent violence against women
  • Talking to children about consent

Preventing violence

  • Recognising violence

  • What drives violence

  • How do we prevent violence

  • Explore topics

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