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Violence Against Children in Afghanistan: Community Perspectives

, 2018
Violence against children (VAC) is a significant international problem and, in Afghanistan, is particularly complex given the country has suffered armed conflict and extreme poverty for more than 30 years.
Jawad, QS, Mohammad S. Naimi, Lakhani, A, O'Leary, Patrick, Hassan Khan, Jawad, Qazi, Patrick J. O’Leary, Kristen Hope, de Souza, L, Naimi, Mohammad, Khan, Hassan, Osborne, Jodie, Naimi, MS, Jodie M. Osborne, de Souza, Luana, Khan, H, Cameron, CM, Osborne, JM, Lakhani, Ali, Cate M. Cameron, Luana de Souza, Ali Lakhani, Sabir Majidi, Qazi S. Jawad, Cameron, Catherine, Hope, Kristen, Hope, K, Majidi, Sabir, Majidi, S, O’Leary, PJ   +29 more
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Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi, Casianus Gemoh, Denise Chapman, Edmund Hypolite, Simon Angok, Melanie Baak, Joel Windle   +6 more
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Midwifery service managers’ readiness for prevention of obstetric violence in Nigeria: A community readiness model

Heliyon
Obstetric violence is a public health problem that needs to be prevented at all levels to improve maternal and newborn health outcomes. The midwifery service managers, as custodians of patient care in maternity centres are in a prime position to develop ...
Adetunmise Oluseyi Olajide, Sinegugu Evidence Duma   +1 more
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Developing a monitoring and evaluation system for the ceasefire gang violence programme in Hanover Park, Cape Town

, 2014
Includes bibliographical references.This study is a formative evaluation of the Ceasefire gang violence programme in Hanover Park, Cape Town, South Africa. The primary audience of this evaluation is the Ceasefire programme management.
Mahamed, Mahamed Rage
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Qualitative evaluation of the Mentors in Violence Prevention pilot in Scottish high schools

, 2016
Objective The Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) program originated in the US and adopts a bystander approach to gender-based violence prevention by harnessing group processes using a peer-learning model.
Williams, Damien John, Neville, Fergus Gilmour   +1 more
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
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Infertile Jordanian Women’s Self-Perception About Societal Violence: An Interpretative Phenomenological Study

International Journal of Women's Health
Hala Bawadi,1 Zaid M Al-Hamdan,2 Cari Jo Clark,3 Rachel Hall-Clifford,4 Jehan Mahmoud Hamadneh,5 Emad Elddeen Al-Sharu6 1Maternal and Child Health Nursing Department, the University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan; 2Faculty of Nursing, Jordan University of ...
Bawadi H, Al-Hamdan ZM, Clark CJ, Hall-Clifford R, Hamadneh JM, Al-Sharu EE   +5 more
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Preventing and responding to gender-based violence in middle and low-income countries : a global review and analysis [PDF]

Worldwide, patterns of violence against women differ markedly from violence against men. For example, women are more likely than men to be sexually assaulted or killed by someone they know.
Morrison, Andrew, Ellsberg, Mary, Bott, Sarah   +2 more
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The Relationship Between Community Violence and Trauma: How Violence Affects Learning, Health, and Behavior [PDF]

, 2017
Research on trauma is frequently featured in mainstream news outlets, pointing to its connection to a range of behavioral and health outcomes. While trauma can have multiple interpretations, for the purposes of this report, it is the result of ...
Jennifer Lynn-Whaley, Josh Sugarmann
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Leveraging Intermediaries to Strengthen the Community Violence Intervention Field

, 2023
National community violence intervention leaders and advocates have spent years fighting for an investment in this field commensurate with the magnitude of the issue. Particularly as gun violence increased in the wake of the pandemic, sizable dollars are
Paul Carrillo, Jordan Costa, Brittany Nieto   +2 more
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