Lunch Hour Lectures: Preventing violence against women: what can we learn from extreme settings?

While violence against women is a problem all over the world, in some countries it is widely accepted as a normal part of women's everyday lives. These ‘extreme settings’ are often excluded from research as outliers, but in fact, they have a lot to teach us about the psychology of violent behaviour and how it can be prevented. This lecture explores what we know about the reasons why violence against women is often accepted and how it is related to gender inequalities, armed conflict, child abuse and other forms of violence. It also examines how we can use knowledge of extreme settings to start to challenge this acceptance. This is discussed in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic and current evidence of the rising rates of violence against women globally. We urgently need new approaches to violence prevention that effectively address violent behaviours and extreme settings may hold many of the answers for how to do this. Date: Tuesday 23 February 2021 Speaker: Dr Jenevieve Mannell, Associate Professor, UCL’s Institute for Global Health Free to attend, live stream or watch online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY7vFbAmvRA&t=11s More info : events.ucl.ac.uk/lhl Join the conversation on Twitter at #UCLMinds #MadeAtUCL