application deadline for postgraduate TRAINING COURSE ON “PREVENTING AND RESPONDING TO GENDER BASED VIOLENCE” organized by SANT’ANNA SCHOOL LAW, POLITICS AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE is june 11, 2018

A new training program developed by the DIRPOLIS Institute (Law, Politics and Development) at Sant’Anna School on “Preventing and Responding to Gender Based Violence” will be held on June 13-16. Online applications are accepted until 11 June 2018 (noon).

The goal of the program, under the scientific supervision of Sant’Anna School professors of political philosophy and criminal law, Anna Loretoni and Gaetana Morgante, is to brief participants about the tools to address gender violence and abuse prevention more proactively and effectively. Senior trainers and academics will share lessons learned in the critical area of gender equality promotion and gender violence prevention. DiRe - Donne in rete contro la violenza association, Pisa City Council authorithy and Provincia di Pisa supported the initiative aimed at providing participants with 32 teaching hours (2 CFU and 20 credits for lawyers).

This training program attempts to tackle gender-based violence and makes Virtual Reality a choice to explore gender-based issues. Sant’anna School Professor Massimo Bergamasco used immersive virtual reality to induce a full body illusion that allows stalkers wearing robotic exoskeletons (in the X-CAVE environment), to be in the body of a victim of abuse. Researchers will provide evidence that embodied perspective taking through VR has the potential to improve rehabilitation programs for offenders by enhancing emotional recognition skills. Theoretical models of aggression and deviant behaviors will be carried out to recreate in the laboratory a situation capable of inducing intense feelings of fear or distress in participants.

This course will provide lawyers, social workers, advocates, practitioners, students, and humanities graduates with a strong foundation for interventions to prevent interpersonal and gender based violence.

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