The Global Network for Violence Prevention (GNVP) is a network of academic researchers and practitioners in the area of child protection from different parts of the world. The mission of the network is to prevent violence against children in their families, schools and communities through the adaptation, evaluation and dissemination of the preventative intervention Interaction Competencies with Children (ICC). With ICC, we are trying to reduce violence against children in low-resource contexts in which violent discipline is culturally accepted and by that, increase children’s well-being, their social and cognitive functioning and learning achievements.
Our vision is to contribute globally to a societal change towards violence-free upbringing and education of children through the development, evaluation and dissemination of evidence-based interventions.
Interaction competencies with children (ICC) aims at preventing violence against children, increasing positive adult-child interactions, and fostering healthy adult-child relationships. It is based on attachment, behavioral, and social learning theories and on the parenting guidelines of the American Academy of Pediatrics (1999) as well as on the work of Dreikurs et al. (2004). It is developed for settings in which violent discipline is socially accepted and widespread. To date the intervention Interaction Competencies with Children is available for caregivers in institutional care (ICC-C), teachers (ICC-T), and parents (ICC-P).