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The ‘MUVI-Developing strategies to work with men who use violence in intimate relationships’ project, approved and funded by the European Commission’s Daphne 2006 Programme, was presented by Bologna Municipality together with the Shelter for Women against Violence (Casa delle donne per non subire violenza). The project partners are the Alternative to Violence Centre, ATV (Oslo), Innovation, Transfer and Development, ITD (Barcelona), the Greek training centre DIMITRA and AEDA, Athens municipality’s Development Agency. The MUVI project aims to raise awareness among the public and among those who work in the social field on the problem of men’s violent behaviour against women in intimate relationships. The idea of men taking responsibility for violent behaviour is promoted, the question of how to deal directly with the perpetrators of this violence is explored and the possibility of introducing therapeutic or educational programmes for them is verified. The project’s perspective, involving the idea of prevention, control and reduction of violence through the implementation of therapeutic or educational programmes for the perpetrators of violence is relatively new in the Italian and Greek context, although it is common in various other European and American states. In Spain it is highly debated perspective. Such programmes are used as an alternative to imprisonment and/or in response to a direct request from those who use violence. Many questions are raised by the implementation of these programmes and the main aim of MUVI is to look into them carefully in order to come up with answers. The project activities and partnership with the Alternative to Violence Centre in Oslo, operative for years and one of Europe’s most significant realities in the field, will provide theoretical and practical knowledge of fundamental importance for developing strategies in states such as Greece and Italy where only traditional methods are used to deal with male violence in intimate relationships. Spain, as a Mediterranean country where numerous initiatives have sprung up in recent years in the field, provides an interesting contrast.
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