Policy Brief - Leveraging the potential of religious teachings and grassroots religious teachers and clerics to combat intimate partner violence

Leveraging the potential of religious teachings and grassroots religious teachers and clerics to combat intimate partner violence in international development contexts Executive Summary The current policy brief highlights the significant potential that religious teachings and religious teachers and clerics can have in combating intimate partner violence (IPV) and how this could be leveraged by mea. [...] Victims and to openly oppose norms, practices and survivors of IPV often rationalise and inter- attitudes that can contribute to the pret their experiences with partner abuse continuation of IPV and are often inclined to through their religious lens, and perpetrators maintain the status quo in the realm of gender often understand their behaviour towards relations and marriage.4 intimate partners a. [...] attitudes and practices and can help ◀ 2 ▶ Policy Brief: Leveraging the potential of religious teachings and grassroots religious teachers and clerics to combat intimate partner violence in international development contexts practitioners to identify how negative effects community and individual worldviews and can be counteracted and positive effects normative systems. [...] the following results: abuse realities and attitudes in the • the theological content achieved the community and the role of religious highest level of engagement and teachings by grassroots clergy in granted credibility to the training in the these realities. [...] Wong on the Role of Religion in the Experience of (Eds.), Revisiting Gender Training: The Ma- IPV and Faith-Based Responses in Community king and Remaking of Gender Knowledge, and Counseling Settings.