Citation

Mitchell KS, Freitag JL. Violence Against Women 2011; 17(8): 990-1013.

Affiliation

University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801211417152

PMID

21868440

Abstract

This article introduces the "Forum Theatre for Bystanders" (FTB) approach to gender violence prevention as practiced by social change groups at several midwestern universities in the United States. Largely informed by Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed and contemporary research on bystander theory, the Forum Theatre for Bystanders model offers a community-based approach that increases bystander responsibility and reduces victim blaming. The authors describe this model in detail and offer examples from their work to demonstrate its usefulness and efficacy.

Language: en