Preventing and responding to violence, violation, and discrimination is no easy task, but we’re more than up to the challenge. With over forty years of combined experience, we provide an unparalleled level of expertise, creativity and talent.
The analysis developed over the past 50 years of feminist anti-violence work provides us with the foundation for our approach. The focus on teaching victims (in particular women) how to protect themselves through self-defense and physical/environmental safety, is valuable for risk reduction but doesn’t address the fundamental causes of sexual and relationship violence. We End Violence uses a multi-tiered approach that focuses on the cultural attitudes and behaviors that allow violence, violation and discrimination to flourish. Thus, we view violence prevention as a process that includes identifying, understanding, and disrupting the elements of human culture that facilitate all forms of violence.
We discuss painful issues like sexual violence, bullying, sexual harassment and relationship violence in a format that is easily accessible to different audiences. Through intellectually and emotionally stimulating dialogue, We End Violence provides insight about hard topics that is both easy to access and action/solution oriented.
We End Violence derives its name from the belief that, in order to prevent violence, WE, as a community, must take action. Thus, We End Violence believes that there is no one person or strategy that can prevent violence on their own, which is why our business focuses on the creation and maintenance of alliances, in particular alliances between privileged and oppressed social groups. We not only use, but model this strategy as a means of demonstrating that working together across our differences is not only possible, but productive, enjoyable, and necessary if we are to end violence.
It is important to know that while We End Violence does not believe that men are the sole cause or source of violence, we do believe that any real hope for bringing an end to violence must start with a challenge to men and masculinity. For this reason, We End Violence provides many different programs and resources that focus on engaging men and boys to meet that challenge, and to help masculinity evolve into a force that prevents and heals, rather than encourages violence.
However, unlike other prevention groups, We End Violence makes it clear that in the end, this challenge to men extends to everyone—because there can be no end to violence until every person accepts their responsibility to end it. Only together can we end violence.
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