SVRI Forum2026
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Monday 5 October
Pre-conference dayPre-conference morning workshops
Pre-conference afternoon workshops
Tuesday 6 October
Day 1Participant-driven events
Plenary Session I: Opening plenary
Still Here: Evidence, Solidarity, and the Long Game
The Climate-Violence Nexus
Understanding and responding to perpetration
From Proof to Practice: Scaling What Works
When Violence Kills: Research on Femicide and Lethality
A decade of change: How rugby in the Pacific became a platform for preventing violence against women and girls
Children, Sexual Violence, and the Path to Response
Community, Systems, and Scale: Practical Approaches to IPV and Beyond
To be confirmed
Designing, Testing, and Refining IPV Prevention Programmes
Violence Within Violence: GBV in Conflict and Crisis Settings
Beyond the Application: Donor Insights and Dialogue on Partnering to Support Research on Sexual Violence and Human Trafficking
Research With, Not On: Methods and Ethics in Violence Research
Dialogic Session: Review of Research Trends in Science across SVRI Forums
Responding in Crisis: GBV Programming in Humanitarian Settings
From Policy to Practice: National Strategies to Address VAW
To be confirmed
Accountability on Trial: Evidence on How Justice Systems Respond to Sexual Violence
Understanding and Preventing Sexual Violence: Evidence Across Settings
Campus Under Scrutiny: GBV in Higher Education Institutions
Disability, Violence, and the Right to Be Heard
Reaching Survivors: Innovations in Support and Care
Over Time: Tracking IPV Across Populations and Contexts
Accountable to Survivors: Safeguarding in Practice
To be confirmed
Participant-driven events
Wednesday 7 October
Day 2Participant-driven events
Plenary Session II
Taking Proven Programmes to Scale: Lessons from the Field
The Missing Risk Factor: Men's Drinking, Gendered Harm, and Policy Pathways to Prevent Violence against Women and Children
Dialogic Session: Who Funds the Field, and How: Reimagining Finance for GBV Work
Why Men Use Violence: Perspectives on Male Perpetration
Schools as Sites of Prevention: Evidence on Education-Based Interventions
When Climate Hits: GBV Response in Pacific Island Communities
Violence Against Children: Prevalence, Patterns, and Structural Drivers
Norms, Rights, and Girls' Lives: Research on Harmful Practices
To be confirmed
Plenary Hall closed (Gala setup)
Holding Ground: Feminist Responses to Anti-Gender Backlash
Rigour and Responsibility: Methods in Violence Prevention Research and Practice
Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence: Harms, Responses, and Engagement Across Digital Contexts
From Shelter to State: Building Systems That Support Survivors
Law in Practice: Evidence on Justice Responses to VAW
GBV, Harassment, and Accountability in the Workplace
To be confirmed
Plenary Hall closed (Gala setup)
Stopping Child Sexual Abuse before it Happens: Practical Ways to Work with Adults and Adolescents at Risk of Causing Harm
Does Economic Empowerment Reduce IPV? Evidence from the Field
Beyond Punishment: Survivor-Centred Justice and Alternatives to Carceral Responses
TFGBV in China: Law, Platforms, Advocacy, and Survivor-Centred Responses
Violence, Health, and the Long-Term Consequences of GBV
Violence, Identity, and Survival: GBV and LGBTQ+ Communities
To be confirmed
Thursday 8 October
Day 3Inside the Digital Threat: Research on Child Sexual Abuse Perpetration Online
Stronger Families, Safer Children: Evidence on Parenting Interventions
Scaling What Works: Evidence-Based Prevention across Education, Families, and Communities
TFGBV, Power, and Political Participation
How We Measure Violence: Validation and Innovation in IPV Tools
Violence Against LGBTIQ+ Communities: Evidence from Asia and Beyond
Violence Across Generations: Longitudinal Evidence from LMICs
To be confirmed
Foundations: Strengthening the Evidence Base
Systems Under Strain: Funding, Conflict and Humanitarian Settings
Children, Adolescents and Educational Settings
Mixed Forms of Violence and Harmful Practices
Marginalised Groups and Intersecting Harms
Prevention and Tech-Enabled Violence
Survivor-Centred Response
To be confirmed
Plenary Session III
When the Climate Changes, Who Gets Hurt: GBV and Environmental Stress
Plenary Session IV: Closing & prize-giving
Participant-driven events
Friday 9 October
Day 4The closing plenary and prize-giving take place on Thursday. Friday is reserved for participant-driven events.