How we make a difference
Challenging community institutions through interventions and prevention...
Gender-based violence is a pernicious global human rights problem that needs to be challenged by changing laws and organizational practices to enhance the safety of victims. We believe that it is critical to challenge governments, law enforcement, the criminal and civil justice systems, NGOs, human service providers and community organizations to implement policies and procedures in a coordinated manner that hold offenders accountable for their behavior and creates a community deterrence.
We also believe that intervention to end gender-based violence and injustice isn't enough to change this long-standing historical social problem. We imagine a world free of oppression, entitlement, objectification of others and the use of violence to settle conflicts. We envision a day when men end their silence, become leaders and engage other men and boys on the importance of ending domestic and sexual violence, the demand for sex-trafficking and sexual harassment of women and girls.
Our mission is to continue working in collaboration with other human rights organizations around the world challenging our many cultures to end gender-based violence, racism, discrimination and oppression through training and social change strategies. The culture won't change until men change.....
Increasing women in policing....
We maintain that gender equity in law enforcement has a direct and proven affect in reducing intimate partner violence by improving police interventions with victims and deescalating incidents. Research clearly demonstrates that when there is a critical mass of women in law enforcement victims of gender-based violence are more likely to report crimes, feel heard and understood, are ultimately safer and take advantage of referrals offered in a community after an intervention.
We believe that the global recruitment of women in law enforcement will make a fundamental difference in defusing violent confrontations before events become deadly. Female officers are less inclined to use deadly force and have a less authoritarian approach in police work. In post-conflict zones internationally, more female peace-keeping officers reduce rape and mistreatment of people in conflict zones. In communities of color and impoverished neighborhoods where there is high distrust of law enforcement, more women police officers reduce police brutality and help establish trust and cooperation through community policing.
Education for Critical Thinking in collaboration with The National Center for Women and Policing are working to recruit more women in policing nationally and internationally by working with policymakers, police chiefs, and political leaders to diversify law enforcement agencies through training, organizational audits, models for best and promising practices, consultation and technical assistance and providing conferences on changing the culture in law enforcement. Law enforcement won't change unless leaders change......
Gender-based violence is a pernicious global human rights problem that needs to be challenged by changing laws and organizational practices to enhance the safety of victims. We believe that it is critical to challenge governments, law enforcement, the criminal and civil justice systems, NGOs, human service providers and community organizations to implement policies and procedures in a coordinated manner that hold offenders accountable for their behavior and creates a community deterrence.
We also believe that intervention to end gender-based violence and injustice isn't enough to change this long-standing historical social problem. We imagine a world free of oppression, entitlement, objectification of others and the use of violence to settle conflicts. We envision a day when men end their silence, become leaders and engage other men and boys on the importance of ending domestic and sexual violence, the demand for sex-trafficking and sexual harassment of women and girls.
Our mission is to continue working in collaboration with other human rights organizations around the world challenging our many cultures to end gender-based violence, racism, discrimination and oppression through training and social change strategies. The culture won't change until men change.....
Increasing women in policing....
We maintain that gender equity in law enforcement has a direct and proven affect in reducing intimate partner violence by improving police interventions with victims and deescalating incidents. Research clearly demonstrates that when there is a critical mass of women in law enforcement victims of gender-based violence are more likely to report crimes, feel heard and understood, are ultimately safer and take advantage of referrals offered in a community after an intervention.
We believe that the global recruitment of women in law enforcement will make a fundamental difference in defusing violent confrontations before events become deadly. Female officers are less inclined to use deadly force and have a less authoritarian approach in police work. In post-conflict zones internationally, more female peace-keeping officers reduce rape and mistreatment of people in conflict zones. In communities of color and impoverished neighborhoods where there is high distrust of law enforcement, more women police officers reduce police brutality and help establish trust and cooperation through community policing.
Education for Critical Thinking in collaboration with The National Center for Women and Policing are working to recruit more women in policing nationally and internationally by working with policymakers, police chiefs, and political leaders to diversify law enforcement agencies through training, organizational audits, models for best and promising practices, consultation and technical assistance and providing conferences on changing the culture in law enforcement. Law enforcement won't change unless leaders change......