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Community Accountability
Executive
Director
Director, Client
Services
Moderator
Usha Ramachandran
Roopa Mohan
Shantha Balaswami
Today’s Goal
Let’s talk about accountability.
Definitions
Community
Accountability
networks of the people we interact with everyday
the ability to recognize and be responsible for violence
What is community accountability
How to hold us accountable
Communities
more knowledge
more skills
more willingness
to prevent and intervene in violence
Why we ignore interpersonal violence
Glorification
Quiet Survivors
Disbelief
Intimacy and Complexity
Social Pressures
Self preservation
Denial
Desensitized
Blaming the victim
Consequences of violence
Communit
y
Personal
Unsafe neighborhoods
Social instability
Mental health issues
Intergenerational violence
Involvement
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Men and women have to become allies.
Men need to be able to reflect on the role of masculinity, socialization and
power and control.
Gender based violence needs to be recognized as a community wide issue.
Change efforts focussing only on women will not succeed.
Important to recognize that many men are open and willing to use their
influence to encourage women’s equality.
Involvement
*Individuals, families, friendship networks, communities and cultures have
to think of creative and community based ways to resolve violence.
*Communities need to remain flexible to make changes and create new
strategies when needed.
*Solutions to violence need to be built to last over the course of the
intervention, over our lifetimes and throughout future generations.
Involvement
Listening
Changing
Taking Responsibility
Learning
Let’s Work Together
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Strength in numbers, our community here is 3.4 million
strong!
Creative Interventions
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Immediate and long-term
Traditional methods do not necessarily work.
Need to collectively think out of the box.
Organizing community--a road map
Accountability process:
Identify behavior
Looking for patterns
Unlearning old behavior
Learning new behavior
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How to intervene
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It takes a community.
Connecting them to resources.
Continuum of process.
Staircase of Change for Communities
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immediate intervention
recognize the violence around us
recognize the consequences
make repairs
change deep-rooted attitudes
become whole, safe and healthy
Case Studies
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Break into groups.
Share with group.