Exercise: Violence Against Women - A Local Assessment
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Goals:
Greater awareness of the ways that women experience violence in the local community, not only direct physical violence.
Greater awareness of the violence that women face during during peacetime as well as wartime. Understanding of the local experience of violence against women within a global framework.
- Method: Information gathering and discussion
- Time:
- Materials: 2 worksheets: Local Forms of Violence Against Women and Global Forms of Violence Against Women
pens and markers, board with empty copy of worksheet Local Forms of Violence Against Women
Procedure
Divide into three small groups. Pass out the Local Forms of Violence Against Women worksheet. Ask the Group 1 to fill in the first column on violence during peacetime, Group 2 the second column on violence during war, and Group 3 the column on violence in the post-war context.
Have a reporter from each group give a short presentations of the information on violence that they have gathered. As the report is given, have the points be entered on the posted chart, so that the full group can see the full chart as it develops.
Pass out the worksheets Global Forms of Violence Against Women. Do women in the local context experience any of the items listed? Has the group identified forms of violence that are not mentioned?
Questions for discussion: Which column is the local region or country in now? In the local assessment, what common points can be found between peacetime and war, or between war and post-war? How relevant is work against peacetime violence to work against war? How relevant is work against post-war violence? (The facilitator develops more questions as discussion ensues.)
Attached: Worksheets:Violence Against Women
This exercise was adapted from Women in Peacebuilding Resource and Training Manual, ed by Lisa Schirch. The full manual can be found at: http://www.iiav.nl/epublications/2004/womens_peacebuilding_manual.pdf or at: http://www.ifor.org/WPP/resources.htm
