Changing cultural and social norms that support violence

Changing cultural and social norms that support violence Series of briefings on violence prevention This briefing for advocates, programme designers and implementers and others is one of a seven-part series on the evidence for interventions to prevent interpersonal and self-directed violence . The other six briefings look at reducing access to lethal means;. increasing safe, stable and nurturing relationships between children and their parents and caregivers; develop ing life skills in children and adolescents; reducing availabil- ity and misuse of alcohol; promoting gender equality; and victim identification, care and support . For a searchable evidence base on interventions to prevent violence , please go to: For a library of violence prevention publications, including the other briefings in this series, please go to: WHO Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Changing cultural and social norms supportive of violent behaviour.

Cultural and social norms are rules or expectations of behaviour within a specific cultural or social group. Often unspoken, these norms offer social standards of appropriate and inappropriate be-haviour, governing what is (and is not) acceptable and co-ordinating our interactions with others (6).

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