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Help us come up with a catchy name for this tool! All suggestions welcome...

It started as the ASSHOLE BAROMETER... :/

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What does a balanced, free-from-violence relationship look like? Share your thoughts.

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The Level - is your relationship in balance?

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The Level - is your relationship in balance?

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In conversation with a group of women, we began to explore the complexity of finding balance in relationships - although the barometer is helpful, it doesn't capture the dimensions that we find when navigating the issue of violence against women and girls. The image below captures some of the thoughts from that conversation in an attempt to explore balance and imbalance.

Please share any thoughts, comments, ideas and inputs with us by adding a comment box of your own.

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Is this just about violence in RELATIONSHIPS?

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Is this just about violence in RELATIONSHIPS?

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To start with... but you can click anywhere to add your thoughts on how violence against women and girls shows up in other aspects of life (workplaces, schools, the street...) - with your input we can make a really comprehensive and inclusive tool.

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Is this only about violence against WOMEN and GIRLS?

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Is this only about violence against WOMEN and GIRLS?

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We recognise that violence also affects boys and men, but in the first instance we want to focus on women and girls as it is more predominant.

Recent global prevalence figures indicate that about 1 in 3 (35%) of women worldwide have experienced either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence in their lifetime. (WHO)

But we welcome thoughts from anyone, and feel free to add thoughts on how violence against boys and men shows up.

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The following list of "food for thought" questions are meant to help you think about your current relationship and whether there are any signs of violence or escalating violence. Reflect on the questions one by one, maybe do this with a supportive friend who can help you think about what your next steps might be if you need to take action.
Please add comments in separate boxes anywhere on this page.

THINKING ABOUT YOUR CURRENT RELATIONSHIP:

1. Are any of your interactions making you feel uncomfortable?

2. What happened last time you had a disagreement? Do you feel your partner overreacted?

3. Was your partner unwilling to deal with their reactions? Are they open to talking about it?

4. Have you ever changed your behavior (where you go, the way you dress, etc.) because of the relationship? Do you feel the need to make excuses to for your partner?

5. When was the last time you did something for yourself that made you happy?

6. Has your partner ever stopped you from doing something? Do you feel isolated and alone?

7. Have you ever felt ashamed because of something your partner has said to you or done? Has your confidence level changed since you’ve been with your partner?

8. Do you feel like your safety is threatened? Are you scared of your partner?

9. Has your partner been physically violent towards you?

10. Where is this going? How do you think this story ends?

Image from: caninetraining.com.au

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WELCOME to The Peace Level - we want your input!

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WELCOME to The Peace Level - we want your input!

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TRIGGER WARNING: This page contains details about violence against women and girls, violence in relationships - we recognise that this can be difficult to tackle, but wanted to create a space to have the conversation. We encourage you to contribute as much or as little as you want, to proceed gently and take care of yourself. Please be constructive and respectful on this page - we will do our best to remove inappropriate content, but invite everyone to take part in making this a safe and respectful community. Thank you.

What is the Peace Level?
The Peace Level is a first draft at creating a tool that helps both men and women to identify the behaviours, thoughts and feelings associated with violence against women and girls - we hope that this will help us to better understand how violence shows up, to find ways to talk about and address it before it escalates, and stop violence in it's tracks. This page is a work in progress and we are looking for input from anyone who has an interest in contributing - we want to co-create this tool with you, and then to launch a first version in early 2017.

How can I get involved?
The objective is to make the Barometer and the Levels below as reflective of real experiences as possible, and to create a simple tool for identifying and tackling violence against women and girls - we want your help to make this tool as useful and impactful as possible. Have a look at the different posts on this page (you can scroll down to see more) and press the + in the right hand corner of your screen to add your comments - you can post anywhere on the page. We want questions, comments, edits, builds, feedback, ideas, new dimensions, your experiences, examples, thoughts and feelings about this. You can add them anywhere on the screen.

Community Agreements:
- We will only use inclusive and respectful language
- We bring a spirit of collaboration to this page, and value the diversity of each others expressions
- We will not delete or edit other people's posts - we will add our views separately and in constructive ways.

For more information on violence against women you can go to the WHO website: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs239/en/
Support for dealing with violence against women and girls varies from country to country, but the EDV Global Foundation has a good resource of global partners here: http://www.gfedv.org/reducing.php