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المهمة والرؤية

  • Our vision is a world where Gender-Based Violence is not tolerated and survivors of trauma are empowered and supported
  • Our mission is to expose, challenge and eliminate the culture that allows abuse and inhibits healing and thriving
  • Our values are connection, respect, humility, diversity, creativity, compassion and social change

MiStory Objectives

Explore the interaction between culture, engagement, healing, and recovery

  • Innovate research tools and techniques that fully and accurately capture survivors’ experiences of trauma recovery.  
  • Systematically compare data to illuminate sociocultural differences and similarities in the experiences of trauma and trauma recovery.

Collaborate with individuals, universities, and organizations across the globe

  • Develop an international database that can be used across levels of society to support prevention, interventions, culture change and system reform around GBV.
  •  Use theories to develop interventions that promote recovery and healing engagement.

Expand our science, our scientists, and our approach to trauma recovery

  • Develop an international cadre of scholars that can work at the cutting-edge of GBV research and intervention.
  • Develop and test theories that can be used to explain and predict trauma recovery outcomes, including help seeking, and RHEA.

MiStory Strategies

2019 – 2021 Emphasis Areas

  • Shared sense of identity
  • Flexible administrative structure
  • International visibility
  • Responsive procedures and guidelines
  • Receive small and local funding
  • Complete shared research project
  • Support career development of students and postdocs
  • Identify shared and country specific research questions
  • Identify potential collaborators

2021 – 2023 Emphasis Areas

  • Create ways to meet interested scholars
  • Develop a body of publications sharing measures, methods, and findings
  • Receive large scale funding
  • Carry out second round of projects initiated by collaborators
  • Develop regional research hubs

2019-2021 Actions

  • Establish shared norms and values
  • Broaden administrative engagement through subcommittees
  • Apply for funding to support students and postdocs
  • Apply for funding to support collaborative meetings
  • Apply for funding to support translation and in-country team activities (data collection, transportation, transcription)
  • Apply for funding to support regional hub development
  • Train students at multiple levels and countries
  • Develop and use country-specific and organization-wide dissemination plan
  • Standardize, validate and publish tools and techniques
  • Develop a shared database
  • Refine analysis techniques (Qualitative and Mixed)

2021-2023 Actions

  • Carry out an international congress focusing on sociocultural aspects of GBV prevention, intervention, social change, and system reform
  • Develop a series of white papers related to emerging understandings about sociocultural aspects of GBV prevention, intervention, social change, and system reform