Training format
In person
Venue
Strule Arts Centre, Omagh
Event time
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Brief description
A moderated panel discusses 5 books, changing the conversation on coercive control, highlighting its links to domestic homicide and the role men can play in domestic abuse prevention.
The 5 selected books are a mixture of memoir, fiction and books by experts and practitioners in the field. They include:
- In Control, Dangerous Relationships and how they end in Murder’ by Professor Jane Monckton Smith, an academic focusing on the link between coercive control and domestic homicide
- ‘Invisible Chains’ by psychologist Dr Lisa Aronson Fontes
- ‘Deadly Silence: A Sister’s Battle to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of Clodagh and Her Sons by Alan Hawe’ by award-winning author and activist Jacqueline Connolly
- ‘The Names’ is an acclaimed debut fiction novel by author Florence Knapp
- ‘Every Man’ by Dr Jackson Katz, a leading figure in the movement to engage men and boys in the prevention of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence
These books are part of a wider donation of 80 books on domestic, sexual, and gender-based abuse, donated by Haven Horizons to Libraries across Ireland.