The Praying for Peace Project was a one year funded initiative coordinated by the Greater London Domestic Violence Project (GLDVPO to further develop and support faith communities in responding to domestic violence and to encourage domestic violence services to be more responsive to faith issues.
As part of the Praying for Peace Project, GLDVP has produced Domestic Violence and Faith: a toolkit for Faith Leaders, Faith Organisations and Members of Faith Communities to provide faith leaders, workers and community members with the knowledge and resources to address domestic violence.
The toolkit aims to provide the tools to:
- Effectively and appropriately support those affected by domestic violence, and/or
- Try to respond effectively to perpetrators, and/or
- Address social tolerance of domestic violence.
The toolkit was launched on 1 April 2008 at a multifaith dialogue event on domestic violence.
To order your hardcopy toolkit you can download and complete this order form (Word, 198kb).
The toolkit is available to download below:
- Praying for Peace toolkit: cover (PDF, 37kb)
- Praying for Peace toolkit: contents (PDF, 16kb)
- Praying for Peace toolkit: appendix (PDF, 119kb)
- Praying for Peace toolkit: acknowledgements (PDF, 14kb)
- Praying for Peace toolkit chapter 1: Domestic violence: An issue for faith communities (PDF, 40kb)
- Praying for Peace toolkit chapter 2: About the toolkit (PDF, 22kb)
- Praying for Peace toolkit chapter 3: Introduction to domestic violence (PDF, 150kb)
- Praying for Peace toolkit chapter 4: Supporting survivors of domestic violence (PDF, 85 kb)
- Praying for Peace toolkit chapter 5: Challenging perpetrators of domestic violence and assisting them to access help for their violent behaviour (PDF, 65kb)
- Praying for Peace toolkit chapter 6: Introduction to domestic violence and children/young people (PDF, 128kb)
- Praying for Peace toolkit chapter 7: Supporting children and young people affected by domestic violence (PDF, 81kb)
- Praying for Peace toolkit chapter 8: Prevention, awareness raising and education within faith communities (PDF, 248kb)
- Praying for Peace toolkit chapter 9: Training and building partnerships (PDF, 28 kb)
- Praying for Peace toolkit chapter 10: Employment/staffing issues (PDF, 34kb)
- Praying for Peace toolkit chapter 11: Equality and diversity issues (PDF, 28kb)
- Praying for Peace toolkit chapter 12: Survivor’s legal rights and the law on domestic violence (PDF, 46kb)
- Praying for Peace toolkit chapter 13: Service directory (PDF, 62kb)
- Praying for Peace toolkit chapter 14: Faith based resources and tools for faith leaders (PDF, 58kb)
- Praying for Peace toolkit chapter 15: Glossary (PDF, 27kb)