Creating innovative and just responses to violence

Disrupting Violence Beacon is a strategic Griffith University research initiative focused on understanding and responding to violence in all forms.

Violence is a pressing global problem that is, according to current research, characterised by gendered, racialised and inter-generational harms, as well as complex cycles of trauma and inequality within families, communities and nations.

The scope of Disrupting Violence Beacon’s output will include sustainable interdisciplinary collaborations, international partnerships and projects that contribute transformative responses to human security.

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Sustainable Development Goals

The Disrupting Violence Beacon is aligned with the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals ( SDGs ) and committed to tackling global challenges around gender equality, reducing inequalities, and peace, justice and strong institutions.

Our focus

The Disrupting Violence Beacon initiative aims to help build institutions and systems that improve people’s security and access to justice by focusing on areas where existing research is lacking, including:
  • Risk and protective factors: understanding violence through the lens of community and inter-generational cycles of violence—addressing risk, causation, resilience, and protective factors.
  • Knowledge translation: innovative translation of new research into policy, interventions and prevention, with a focus on new solutions with community implementation.
  • Just responses to violence: increasing access to justice while helping build just international and domestic institutions that do not further entrench violence.

Through research and work on Advisory Boards and Committees, the Disrupting Violence Beacon provides expert advice to local, state and federal governments, and non-government organisations on addressing violence in all its forms.

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Acknowledgement of Country

Griffith University acknowledges the people who are the traditional custodians of the land, pays respect to the Elders, past and present, and extends that respect to other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

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