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Comparative studies of triggers to violence in different social groups.

Background

Core to the FCO’s work is preparing for and responding to new and sometimes unexpected natural and political events whether opportunity or crisis. Research findings on current and emerging trends to improve future forecasting, or metrics to evaluate the success or otherwise of interventions, would be of interest.

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Source

This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:

FCO Areas of Research Interest 2017 2018

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  • Causal pathways from violent conflict to violence against children: Evidence from multi-country secondary data

    Violence against children (VAC) is a global challenge. The prevalence of VAC is particularly acute in low-income settings, and more so in regions affected by different forms of violent conflict (VC). The picture emerging...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Greenwich

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project examines the causal pathways from violent conflict to violence against children, which is relevant to understanding triggers to violence in different social groups.

  • CANVAS (Children, attitudes, norms, violence, and society): do social meanings of violence affect development of adverse outcomes?

    Are violent acts harmful when they are not perceived as 'violence'? Violence in childhood is a pervasive human rights, health and development challenge. But there is a large international variation in what behavioural ac...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project explores the impact of social norms and attitudes towards violence on children, which partially addresses the question about triggers to violence in different social groups.

  • Networked violence: A relational approach to explain serious violence in the UK

    Violence has been on the rise in the United Kingdom, generating a detrimental impact on the well-being of individuals and communities. Preventing serious violence is a crucial - yet difficult - task that calls for innova...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Cambridge

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project investigates the relational mechanisms underpinning serious violence in the UK, which partially addresses the question about triggers to violence in different social groups.

  • Investigating links between adverse and protective childhood contexts and violence later in life: Analysis of cohort data in England, Brazil & Uganda

    Over one billion children experience physical, sexual or emotional violence every year and social inequalities in violence are large. The contexts children live, learn and play in can shape their health, employment, and ...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Oxford

  • What Motivates Ethnic Conflict? Evidence from Ethnically Motivated Violence in the UK

    Ethnically motivated violence and harassment harm people and communities. Understanding the reasons behind ethnically motivated violence and harassment is key to designing policy to impact on ethnic violence and improve ...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: University College London

  • Explaining and Sustaining the Decline in Stranger, Acquaintance and Domestic Violence

    Violent incidents make up nearly a quarter of crimes recorded in the Crime Survey for England and Wales. The effects are not just those of emotional and physical harm to the individual victim but spread much wider in ter...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: Nottingham Trent University

  • Interrogating the value of theatre-based methodologies as a research tool for addressing the effects of violence on young people's education pathways

    Overview Brazil faces excessively high rates of violence, with homicide rates similar to conflict zones. These extreme rates of violence impact on everyday interactions and relations, and on all public institutions, incl...

    Funded by: GCRF

    Lead research organisation: University of Leeds

    Why might this be relevant?

    Partially relevant as it focuses on violence impact on education pathways, but not specifically on triggers to violence in different social groups.

  • Violence, Health and Society

    Violence causes harms to health, especially long-lasting harms to mental health. Mental health is significantly impacted by violence. These harms to mental health can be more long-lasting than the immediate harms to phys...

    Funded by: MRC

    Lead research organisation: City, University of London

  • Community violence and adolescent mental health in Brazil

    In Brazil, child and adolescent mental health problems account for a substantial proportion of its burden of disease. Brazil also has strikingly high levels of community violence, both when compared to high-income countr...

    Funded by: MRC

    Lead research organisation: University College London

    Why might this be relevant?

    Fully relevant as it specifically addresses community violence and mental health in Brazil, which is related to triggers to violence in different social groups.

  • Screening Violence:A Transnational Study of Post-Conflict Imaginaries

    Screening Violence is an innovative engagement with communities that have experienced prolonged and entrenched violence of different kinds from guerrilla warfare, to state sponsored persecution of particular groups, to m...

    Funded by: AHRC

    Lead research organisation: Newcastle University

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