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Gender-based Violence

Gender-based Violence. SIPU ITP, 2011 Material developed for Sida through NCG/KL by C Wennerholm, A Nordlund and J Förberg. Towards a definition. GBV, VAW, Sexual violence - used interchangeably No single internationally accepted definition for GBV See handout!

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Gender-based Violence

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  1. Gender-based Violence SIPU ITP, 2011 Material developed for Sida through NCG/KL by C Wennerholm, A Nordlund and J Förberg

  2. Towards a definition • GBV, VAW, Sexual violence - used interchangeably • No single internationally accepted definition for GBV See handout! • Critique: too narrow focus, focuses on VAW, women as victims

  3. Focus on women vs gender Women Gender Centrality of gender relations in the violence; societal and relational context of GBV Women and men Issue of power relations Social variables as ethnicity, nationality, poverty, class, age, sexual orientation, other • For long time VAW considered in terms of outside the home. • Domestic violence, occurring in the home, “private business” (still argument not to interfere). • Women as the victims.

  4. Reality • GBV is violence directed at individuals on the basis of their gender: • Women, men, girls, boys • Strong link to sexuality • Women and girls tend to be the majority of the victims. • GBV is indiscriminate - cuts across racial, ethnic, class, economic, religious divides. • See handout!

  5. Different ways of organising/ analyzing GBV, types

  6. Different ways of organising/analizingGBV,i.e. risk factors (contextspecific) (Ecologicalapproach, Ellsberg (WB 2008)

  7. Causes/Risk factors to GBV (main)

  8. Gender norms

  9. Men - not only perpetrators Indirect targets of GBV Rape in public or in front of family, or as threat, or institutional (mass rape in war) Socialised into violent behaviour Do not cry, be strong, defend your family and country... Witness or victim of violence - more likely to reproduce violence

  10. Gender norms – some protective factors • 90 societies world wide: family violence (Levinson1989): • Characteristics of societies were family violence is less likely to occur • Co-operation, commitment, sharing and equality • Reduced personal exposure to violence • 74 programs targeting gun perpetrators in 38 countries: • 2/3 less prone to violence in programs including: • masculinity, • intimate partnership, • non-violent conflict resolution • Social, economic and political empowerment of young men and women, particularly in conflict

  11. Acts of violence committed Impacts on all sectors in society… Based on roles and expectations in a certain society And because of unequal power structures

  12. GBV an issue of

  13. How does GBV impact on the different sectors?

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