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Conference on Coercive
Control 2018 - Bristol
The Conference this year is at the University of
Bristol and the theme: Making The Invisible Visible
Why is coercive control so
difficult to identify and
evidence?
How can we increase
understanding of abuse that
is hidden in plain sight?
How can we recognise the
red flags so we can walk away
sooner?
How can we learn where to
look when there is so much
misinformation?
This conference looks at
abuse that falls below the
radar. Because that is
EXACTLY where
perpetrators want it to
remain.
This is the 3rd national Conference on
Coercive Control and the aim is to achieve a
greater understanding of abuse that remains
hidden in plain sight.
What does this mean?
It means the victim knows their abuser, what
makes them tick and also the tactics they use
to undermine, subjugate, isolate and control
but it is not always apparent to outsiders.
It is important to understand how this
happens and the extent of it as, all too often,
the abuser will provoke the victim into a
negative responses and then claim that
THEY, the abuser, is the victim.
We need to be able to identify and evidence
when this happens as, all too often, the
natural tendency is to dismiss the abuse as a
spat, a dispute, a tiff. All too often it is
dismissed as toxic or hostile or volatile with
the hidden subtext that both parties are
culpable, rather than one who is provoking,
prodding, goading, belittling, demeaning,
degrading the other.
This year's speakers will be looking at and
around coercive control in order to shine a
light on an oft misunderstood and
misreprentated form of manipulation.
2018 is the Year For Making The Invisible Visible