Cornerstone Family Violence Prevention Centre
Academy and Archive of Autobiography
International Feminist Network

Present

Love and Violence: The End of The Fairytale

International Conference

Monday May 12, 2014

Cobourg, Ontario, Canada
Best Western: 9:00am

The issue of violence in my personal life and how the issue has developed in the Beijing Conference and in the UN Framework.
Peggy Antrobus (Barbados/Canada):
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Why violence against women continues in countries where gender equality has advanced so much? Some answers from Scandinavia and Canada.
Lone Alice Johansen (Norway)
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Michael Kaufman (White Ribbon/Canada)
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What is the impact of multiculturality on abuse?
Liz Stone (Aboriginal Community)
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Azza Anis (Canada/Sudan)
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Love and relationships: is there an invisible violence in the “Dream of Love”?
Lea Melandri, Paola Melchiori, (Italy)
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Gail Quinlan (Nova Vita/Canada)
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Tuesday May 13, 2014

Cobourg, Ontario, Canada
Best Western: 9:00am

Bearing witness: what men can do (Listening closely to the experience of women)
Ian de Geer (Niagara)
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How we manage to respond as individuals and Officers representing the Law to abuse and how Law responds
Staff Sergeant Isobel Granger (Canada/ South Africa)
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Police Chief Cory McMullan, (the Russell Williams case)
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Multicultural issues in the Shafia case
Detective Staff Sgt Christopher Scott (Kingston. Ontario)
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