As EU Member States put the Directive on Violence Against Women into practice, they are asked to do something many have never done before: build coordinated, multi-layered prevention strategies that tackle violence before it reaches the criminal justice system. For Peter Söderström, violence-prevention expert at the Swedish Gender Equality Agency, that means starting from an uncomfortable fact. “The vast majority of violence is perpetrated by us men. It’s all forms of violence: men’s violence against women and children, men’s violence against other men, and also men’s violence against…
As EU Member States put the Directive on Violence Against Women into practice, they are asked to do something many have never done before: build coordinated, multi-layered prevention strategies that tackle violence before it reaches the criminal justice system. For Peter Söderström, violence-prevention expert at the Swedish Gender Equality Agency, that means starting from an uncomfortable fact. “The vast majority of violence is perpetrated by us men. It’s all forms of violence: men’s violence against women and children, men’s violence against other men, and also men’s violence against… Read More
