"Women and armed violence. War strategies against women in non war scenarios”
36 month project (01/09/2006-01/12/2009), funded by Fundação Ford
Research team NEP/OGiVA: Tatiana Moura, Sílvia Roque, Grazielle Costa
This project aims to challenge hermeuthical constructions of war and peace through the analysis of practices commonly perceived as “war strategies” an and its impacts on the lives of women. Taking stock from a previous study on women and girls in armed violence contexts in Rio de Janeiro, in which is concluded that violence perpetrated by armed groups and gender violence not only presupposes the resort to strategies similar to those used in conventional war settings, but also has repercussions that bare resemblance to those experienced in war scenarios. Hence, this comparative study aims to analyse the insecurities and violence continuums which women endure in three Latin American cities, characterised by high rates of armed violence and signifiant presence of armed groups: Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Medellín (Colombia), an San Salvador (El Salvador).
Newsletter P@x 12 (August 2009), "Women and armed violences in non war scenarios"
Comunications
Roque, Sílvia (2009), “Estratégias de guerra contra mulheres em contextos de não guerra - Rio de Janeiro, San Salvador, Medellín”, Summer Course “O Sexo das Violências”, NEP/OGIVA, Centro de Estudos Sociais, Coimbra, 10 September.
Moura, Tatiana (2008), “Inseguranças da guerra e da paz: continuuns, espirais e identidades”, Seminar "Segurança e Insegurança em debate", Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2-4 September.
Moura, Tatiana; Roque, Silvia (2008), “Women and armed violences. War strategies against women in non-war contexts. The cases of Rio de Janeiro and San Salvador”, Gender and Region Workshop, Institute for Gender and Women's Studies, American University of Cairo, 14-16 February.
Roque, Sílvia (2008), “Trajectories of violence in El Salvador", EDEN Intensive Program “Rethinking Peace and Security: New Dimensions, Strategies and Actors”, HumanitarianNet, Centro de Estudos Sociais, Coimbra University, 10 July.
Tatiana Moura (2008), "(In)visibilities of armed violence. The case of Rio de Janeiro", EDEN Intensive Program “Rethinking Peace and Security: New Dimensions, Strategies and Actors”, HumanitarianNet, Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra University, 10 July. Tatiana Moura and Sílvia Roque (2009), “Mulheres e violências armadas. Estratégias de guerra contra mulheres em contextos de não guerra. Os casos do Rio de Janeiro (Brasil) e San Salvador (El Salvador)”, pannel “Guerra e Paz: Violências, Memórias e Identidades Colectivas”, X Congresso Luso-Afro de Ciências Sociais, Minho University, Braga, 4-7 February.
Moura, Tatiana (2008), “Inseguranças da guerra e da paz: continuuns, espirais e identidades”, Seminar "Segurança e Insegurança em debate", Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2-4 September.
Moura, Tatiana; Roque, Silvia (2008), “Women and armed violences. War strategies against women in non-war contexts. The cases of Rio de Janeiro and San Salvador”, Gender and Region Workshop, Institute for Gender and Women's Studies, American University of Cairo, 14-16 February.
Roque, Sílvia (2008), “Trajectories of violence in El Salvador", EDEN Intensive Program “Rethinking Peace and Security: New Dimensions, Strategies and Actors”, HumanitarianNet, Centro de Estudos Sociais, Coimbra University, 10 July.
Tatiana Moura (2008), "(In)visibilities of armed violence. The case of Rio de Janeiro", EDEN Intensive Program “Rethinking Peace and Security: New Dimensions, Strategies and Actors”, HumanitarianNet, Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra University, 10 July.
“Violence and small arms: the Portuguese case”
24 month project (01/01/2007-01/09/09), funded by FCT
Research team (NEP/OGiVA): José Manuel Pureza, Tatiana Moura, Sílvia Roque, Rita Santos
This project aims to contribute to the multidimensional characterisation of small arms dissemination in Portugal, as well as the identification of good practices and policy recommendations on armed violence prevention and reduction. Specifically, the project intends to map legal and illegal supply of firearms, to identify its users/bearers and their motivations (according to sex, age and social class), as well as to investigate the differentiated impacts of armed violence and analyse existing prevention and combat strategies, promoted by both the State and civil society.
Organisation of the seminar "Silences of gun violence. Women and gun violence in Portugal, Mozambique and Brazil", Peace Studies Group/Observatory on Gender and Armed Violence and Acção para a Justiça e Paz (AJP), Casa da Esquina, Coimbra, 24th May 2010.
Organisation of the final seminar of the research project "Violence and Small armas: the Portuguese case", CEntro de Estudos Sociais-Lisboa, 20 May 2010.
Organisation of the international seminar "Violence and Small arms: the Portuguese case", Centro de Estudos Sociais, University of Coimbra, 30 - 31 October 2008.
Organisation of the Summer Course "O Sexo das Violências" ["The sexes of violences"], Centro de Estudos Sociais, University of Coimbra, Portugal, 9 - 12 September 2009.
Other activities
During June and July, NEP/OGiVA participated in the international campaign "Disarm Domestic Violence!", run by the IANSA (International Action Network on Small Arms) Women's Network. This participation involved data collection on the Portuguese reality, namely through the conduction of interviews with specialists on public security, health, social services and NGO which work on victims' support, as well as the apllication of questionnaires on small arms and domestic violence perceptions in victims centres, in partnership with the Portuguese Association of Victim Support (APAV). For more information: http://www.iansa-women.org/
Publications
Santos, Rita; Moura, Tatiana; Roque, Sílvia (2010), "UNSCR 1325: is it only about war? Armed violence in non-war contexts", Oficina do CES, 340, March.
Santos, Rita (2010), "Invisibilidades de la violencia armada. La violencia domestica armada en Río de Janeiro (Brasil) y Portugal" in Maria Jimenez (org.), Desarmando la Violencia Familiar y de Género: por una Cultura de Paz. Cuidad de Mexico: Dirección de Atención y Prevención de la Violencia Familiar D. F.
Moura, Tatiana; Santos, Rita (2010), "Seguranças públicas, inseguranças privadas: violência doméstica e armas de fogo", in Susana Durão (org.), Polícia, Segurança e Ordem Pública. Perspectivas portuguesas e brasileiras. Lisboa: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais (in print). Santos, Rita; Roque, Sílvia; Moura, Tatiana (2008), "SCR 1325 National Plans: some perspectives", IANSA Women's Network bulletin, Women At Work: Preventing Gun Violence, 16.
Comunications
Santos, Rita; Roque, Silvia; Moura, Tatiana (2010), "UNSCR 1325: is it only about war? Armed violence in non-war contexts", presented at the international research workshop "The behavioural and cultural foundations and consequences of violence'",Instituto de Ciências Sociais (ICS), Lisbon University, Portugal, 7-8 June 2010.
Santos, Rita; Moura, Tatiana (2009), "Violencia doméstica armada: perspectivas globales y apuntes sobre el caso de Brazil y Portugal", presented at the 8º International Seminar on Family Violence in D.F. Mexico, "Desarmando la Violencia Familiar y de Género: por una Cultura de Paz", Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, UNAM, Mexico, 26-27 November 2009.
Santos, Rita (2009), "Masculinidades e armas ligeiras em Portugal", presented at the Summer Course "The sex of violences", Centro de Estudos Sociais, Coimbra, POrtugal, 10 September.
Sarah, Masters; Moura, Tatiana; Santos, Rita (2009), "Masculinities and firearms", presented at the international symposium "Engaging men and boys for gender equality," Rio de Janeiro, 1 April.
Photo exhibition
À vista desarmada: Violência e Armas ligeiras em Portugal [Disarming sight: Violence and small arms in Portugal], by Hélio Gomes, Casa da Esquina, Coimbra, Portugal, 12 September.
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