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Fatal violence against women : partner homicide -- Physical partner violence -- Intimate partner sexual violence -- Psychological abuse -- Violence against mothers and grandmothers -- Forced marriage -- Honour based violence and killings -- Female genital mutilation -- Familial rape and abuse -- Sexual violence and harassment in the work place -- Street and public space violence -- Stranger and acquaintance rape -- Sexual violence, celebrity culture, and public institutions -- Institutional abuse in residential care -- Violence against women in higher education institutions

International audience ; In spite of pacification and democratization processes, Portuguese speaking countries from Africa andBrazil are still passing through multiple violences, more and more criminal, which repertoires havechanged and whose effects on sociability are beginning to be felt with force. In order to fight thoseviolences and their social dissemination, national and local elected governments have difficulties inredefining public security policies. Their reform depends in priority on the retreat of the military from thepolitical sphere. Thinking the trajectories of violences means emphazising their historicity, examiningthe heritages of a shared portuguese past, and evaluating the scope of today's social and politicalchanges. ; Malgré les pacifications et les démocratisations, les sociétés lusophones d'Afrique et du Brésilcontinuent à être traversées par de multiples violences, dont les répertoires ont changé, qui secriminalisent et dont les effets sur la sociabilité commencent à se faire sentir avec force. Pour luttercontre ces violences et leur dissémination sociale, les gouvernements, nationaux et locaux, issusd'élections peinent à redéfinir les politiques de sécurité publique, dont la réforme démocratique dépenden priorité du retrait des forces de l'ordre de la sphère politique. Réfléchir aux trajectoires des violencespermet d'en mettre en valeur l'historicité, de s'interroger sur les héritages liés au passé portugaiscommun, et d'évaluer la portée des changements sociaux et politiques d'aujourd'hui

International audience ; In spite of pacification and democratization processes, Portuguese speaking countries from Africa andBrazil are still passing through multiple violences, more and more criminal, which repertoires havechanged and whose effects on sociability are beginning to be felt with force. In order to fight thoseviolences and their social dissemination, national and local elected governments have difficulties inredefining public security policies. Their reform depends in priority on the retreat of the military from thepolitical sphere. Thinking the trajectories of violences means emphazising their historicity, examiningthe heritages of a shared portuguese past, and evaluating the scope of today's social and politicalchanges. ; Malgré les pacifications et les démocratisations, les sociétés lusophones d'Afrique et du Brésilcontinuent à être traversées par de multiples violences, dont les répertoires ont changé, qui secriminalisent et dont les effets sur la sociabilité commencent à se faire sentir avec force. Pour luttercontre ces violences et leur dissémination sociale, les gouvernements, nationaux et locaux, issusd'élections peinent à redéfinir les politiques de sécurité publique, dont la réforme démocratique dépenden priorité du retrait des forces de l'ordre de la sphère politique. Réfléchir aux trajectoires des violencespermet d'en mettre en valeur l'historicité, de s'interroger sur les héritages liés au passé portugaiscommun, et d'évaluer la portée des changements sociaux et politiques d'aujourd'hui

International audience ; In spite of pacification and democratization processes, Portuguese speaking countries from Africa andBrazil are still passing through multiple violences, more and more criminal, which repertoires havechanged and whose effects on sociability are beginning to be felt with force. In order to fight thoseviolences and their social dissemination, national and local elected governments have difficulties inredefining public security policies. Their reform depends in priority on the retreat of the military from thepolitical sphere. Thinking the trajectories of violences means emphazising their historicity, examiningthe heritages of a shared portuguese past, and evaluating the scope of today's social and politicalchanges. ; Malgré les pacifications et les démocratisations, les sociétés lusophones d'Afrique et du Brésilcontinuent à être traversées par de multiples violences, dont les répertoires ont changé, qui secriminalisent et dont les effets sur la sociabilité commencent à se faire sentir avec force. Pour luttercontre ces violences et leur dissémination sociale, les gouvernements, nationaux et locaux, issusd'élections peinent à redéfinir les politiques de sécurité publique, dont la réforme démocratique dépenden priorité du retrait des forces de l'ordre de la sphère politique. Réfléchir aux trajectoires des violencespermet d'en mettre en valeur l'historicité, de s'interroger sur les héritages liés au passé portugaiscommun, et d'évaluer la portée des changements sociaux et politiques d'aujourd'hui

Preliminary Material /Tobe Levin -- Violence: "Mercurial Gestalt" /Tobe Levin -- Theories of Violence and the Explanation of Ultra-Violent Behaviour /Patricia Turrisi and Michael J. Shaffer -- E Pluribus Unum: European Nationalism or Shopping for Identities in the European Union /Oleg Piletsky -- From Soldier to Torturer? Military Training and Moral Agency /Jessica Wolfendale -- A Literature of Terror and Mourning /Kaiama L. Glover -- Hurtling Toward Darkness Faces of Violence in the Contemporary World /Susanne Chassay -- Violence on the Screen: Psychological Perspectives on Child Abuse in American Popular Film 1992-2001 /Larissa N. Niec , Elizabeth V. Brestan and Linda Anne Valle -- Creative Writing of FGM as an Act of Violence and Human Rights Abuse /Tobe Levin -- Re-Constructing South African Identity after 1994: Museums and Public History /M.K. Flynn and Tony King -- Speaking of Contested Sites: Narrative and Praxis of Spatial Competition in Belfast, Northern Ireland /Karen Lysaght -- Racism and Violence : Anti-Racist Strategies in Intercultural Contact Zones /Eleonore Wildburger -- The Enemy Within: Earthquake, Rumours and Massacre in the Japanese Empire /Jin-hee Lee -- When Saviour Becomes Serpent: The Psychology of Police Violence /William Vlach -- Gender and Execution in Sunbelt America "Equality in Life Presumes Equality in Death": /Vivien Miller -- Notes on Contributors.

Violence in southern Africa has occurred in a variety of modes including ethnic confrontation, liberation struggles and cross-border aggression and crime. This volume examines the degree to which violence however defined has influenced political change across the region. The contributions include analyses of the ramifications of violent disorder in Angola and Mozambique, the impact on the political economy of both states and the prospects for lasting peace following the end of civil war.

Our two page briefs are designed to provide a snapshot of key terms and definitions, legislation, services and research towards preventing family violence. The briefs are provided in PDF format. To access this information in additional accessible formats, please email monashgfv@gmail.com Access more of our research briefs on our website at: https://arts.monash.edu/gender-and-family-violence/research-briefs

Our two page briefs are designed to provide a snapshot of key terms and definitions, legislation, services and research towards preventing family violence. The briefs are provided in PDF format. To access this information in additional accessible formats, please email monashgfv@gmail.com Access more of our research briefs on our website at: https://arts.monash.edu/gender-and-family-violence/research-briefs