If we want to prevent this violence from happening at its roots, we need to absolutely focus on early intervention, education and engagement. We must absolutely focus on engaging directly with boys and young men, and also with men who are using violence. That means intervening earlier in the process.
I need to share with you that laws and tools like that are not sufficient. We must work on helping men better address their conflict, their anger, their traumas and their own resentments because men coming out of these sentences, conditions and restrictions are often even more angry and even more resolved to enact revenge and use violence. That is very problematic. It means that what we are trying to do to prevent the escalation of that violence is not working well.
We need to do things differently. We need to work with those men using different kinds of approaches.
I would agree that three sessions of counselling is not sufficient. A 12-week program for men who have used violence is not sufficient because we continue to see the escalation of femicides and the increase in these numbers. We need to look for better intervention and better approaches.