Our Impact
Centring Structural and Cultural Violences
A peacebuilding framework recognizes that experiences of structural and cultural violence are always linked to direct experiences of violence. When applied to intimate partner and family violence this framework lifts this violence from the private to the public sphere. Positioning this violence as a public issue means we, as a society, are responsible for creating the conditions for peace in all relationships. This includes responding to calls to decolonize our institutions, the provision of basic living incomes, gender equity and accessible housing. As a team, we apply a feminist intersectional lens that is violence and trauma responsive, and family centred.
Producing Quality Research
Ross, N.; Brown, C. & Johnstone, M. (2022). Dismantling Addiction Services: Neoliberal, Biomedical and Degendered Constraints on Social Work Practice. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction Service, 1-14.
Ross, N. & Bookchin, S. (2020) Perils of Conversation: #MeToo and Opportunities for Peacebuilding. Gender in Management, 35(4), 391-404.
Ross, N. (2021) Pandemic Disruptions: The Subversion of Neoliberalism. Journal of Qualitative Social Work, 20(1-2), 350-356.
Ross, N. (2019) Imagining a Non-Violent World: ‘The Be the Peace, Make a Change Project’: A Rural Community Peacebuilding Initiative to End Gender-Based Violence. Peace & Conflict Studies, 26(1),1-23.
Ross, N., Morrison, J., Cukier, S., & Smith, T. (2015) Consuming Carcinogens: Women and Alcohol. In D. Scott (Ed.) Our Chemical Selves: Gender, Toxics, and Environmental Health (pp. 29-104). UBC Press.
Ryan, C., Silvio, D., Borden, T. & Ross, N., Senior Author (2022). A review of pro-arrest, pro-charge and pro-prosecution policies as a response to domestic violence in Canada. Journal of Social Work, 22(1), 211-238.
Ross, N. & Ryan, C. (2021) A Review of Pro-Arrest, Pro-Charge and Pro-Prosecution Policies: Redefining Responses to Domestic Violence. http://hdl.handle.net/10222/80242
Creatively Sharing Findings
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