ViVa – Monitoring, Assessment and Analysis of the Measures to Prevent and Fight Violence against Women
PUBLICATIONS
ViVa Contributions in National and International Journals
Covid-19: riflessioni sull’emergenza, e oltre (2020)
La Rivista delle Politiche Sociali
The Anti-Violence Centres During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Demurtas P., Peroni C. e Mauri A.
The containment measures related to the Covid-19 pandemic have alerted national and international institutions and organizations of the risks in term of exposure at domestic violence for women due to the forced cohabitation imposed by the lockdown. At the same time, lockdown caused limitations in the operation of specialized services. In order to understand the effects produced by the lockdown on AntiViolence Centre (AVC) activities and on the requests addressed to them by women, the CNR-Irpps performed a survey, which began on 8 April and ended on 4 May 2020, corresponding to the end of so-called Phase 1.
Violence against women: the role of the ViVa Project in anti-violence interventions in Italy, 161-176.
Toffanin A.M., Pietrobelli M. e Misiti M.
Policies to tackle male violence against women require a gender approach, capable of recognising the socio-cultural roots of the phenomenon and understanding the violence consequences for women and on society. Such an approach requires innovative and multidimensional instruments of intervention. The article aims to investigate the evolution of antiviolence policies in Italy, within the ViVa Project that, adopting a gender approach, analyzes the policies and measures adopted, through research-action activities, as well as monitoring and evaluation.
Monitoring the interventions against violence against women: critical issues and proposals, 177-191.
Gagliardi F., Molteni L.
The Istanbul Convention provides that the member states ensure systematic and continuous monitoring of anti-violence interventions, in order to determine the correspondence of the interventions to the needs of the victims and to the policies objectives.
Starting from some Italian critical issues, the contribution briefly outlines the proposal that the authors, within the ViVa Project, have developed to support the Department for Equal Opportunities in the development of a central monitoring system for interventions implemented under the National Strategic Plan on Male Violence Against Women 2017-2020.
So close, so far. Specialized support services and perpetrator treatment programmes, 193-210
Demurtas P.
The different actors daily active in preventing and fighting violence against women share a common goal, but often they employ very different approaches to intervention. On the one hand, anti-violence centers and shelters support women; on the other hand, perpetrators treatment programs empower promote a change in men’s behavior. This contribution discusses the preliminary data of the survey “The anti-violence centers at the time of the coronavirus”, carried out by the CNR in April, which highlights the effects of the health emergency on the activity support for women victims of violence and the main requests that the operators address to political decision-makers are described.
Policies on Violence Against Women in a Comparative Perspective
Journal of Mediterranean Knowledge, Vo. 5 n.1 (2020)
VAW Policy Regimes in Italy: An Analysis Across Regional Governments and Women’s Centres
Toffanin A.M., Pietrobelli M., Gadda A. e Misiti M.
The paper analyses the extent of bureaucratisation processes in the context of violence against women (VAW) policies in Italy. Specifically, through a comparative analysis of VAW policies in three regions (namely, Emilia-Romagna, Apulia, and Lombardy), the paper aims to depict anti-violence centre (AVC) advocates and workers’ representations of VAW policies in their daily practices. In this paper we will focus on the regulation processes of the selected regional administrations, while trying to answer to the following questions:
To what extent has a policy that originated from feminist movement activities and practices ended up in very strict bureaucratisation processes? What are the consequences of this processes on the activities and practices of AVCs, from the perspectives of the centres’ advocates and workers?
Gender & Development
vol. 28 n.2, 377-392, (2020)
Violence against women in Italy after Beijing 1995: the relationship between women’s movement(s), feminist practices and state policies.
Toffanin A.M., Pietrobelli M., Busi B., e Misiti M.
Italy, as well as other United Nations Member States, took up the global call to end all forms of violence against women and girls (VAW) embraced in the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. Through this contribution, we aim to explore the tensions and synergies between the agendas of local women’s rights movement(s) and government strategies to implement Beijing. Based on original quantitative and qualitative data collected between 2018 and 2019, we will analyse the extent to which feminist thoughts have (or have not) been recognised by Italian institutions in the past 25 years in relation to the approaches adopted to combat VAW.