The Centre for Research & Education on Violence Against Women & Children launched a lecture series in 2021 to honour Dr. Peter Jaffe, a psychologist and professor emeritus at the Faculty of Education. This hybrid event will be available via livestream or in-person. The keynote lecture will be delivered in English but for our online audience, French simultaneous interpretation will be available as well as closed captioning in both languages.
In 1986, Peter Jaffe with colleagues authored a seminal analysis of children’s experiences of living with domestic violence. Their work made visible the need to focus on preventing, responding and advocating for children in this context. More than 30 years later, we need to ask ourselves how successful has research, policy and practice in this area been? Have we failed these children? What would be the hallmarks of success? This lecture raises these questions exploring both the hurdles and the facilitators in the actions to respond to children and young people living with domestic violence and charting a path for the future.