Research Institute on Population and Social Policies

September 25, 2023

VIVA project at ECDV and ESPAnet

In September, the research group involved in the VIVA project (Evaluation and Analysis of interventions to prevent and combat violence against women) participated in important opportunities for discussion with the scientific community, in which it shared perspectives and results from which start for the next qualitative investigations on the empowerment of women victims of violence and on Centers for perpetrators of violence.

Two posters were presented at the European Conference on Domestic Violence (ECDV) in Reykjavik.

The first - Networking to prevent and combat male violence against women edited by Francesca Proia, Maria Dentale, Pietro Demurtas, Alice Mauri – reports data relating to the analysis of the Italian anti-violence system as a complex and diversified universe.

Fig. 1 The poster Networking to prevent and combat male violence against women


The second one - Defining the effectiveness of perpetrator programs from a practice-based perspective curated by Pietro Demurtas and Caterina Peroni – shows some of the results of theinvestigation just concluded on Centers for Men Perpetrators of Violence (CUAV).

Fig. 2 The poster Defining the effectiveness of perpetrator programs from a practice-based perspective

As part of the XVI ESPAnet Italia Conference, Beatrice Busi and Angela Toffanin also presented a contribution on conditionality in economic, labor and social empowerment measures in anti-violence policies.

Go to the project website VIVA.

Curated by Monia Torre, with the scientific support of Pietro Demurtas, Alice Mauri, Angela Toffanin.