SVRI Forum 2026

SVRI Forum 2026 | Advancing research and practice to end violence against women and children | Bangkok, 5–9 October 2026

I am honoured to have been selected to present my research at the SVRI Forum 2026 in Bangkok this October. The SVRI Forum is the Sexual Violence Research Initiative’s flagship event and the world’s leading abstract-driven conference on research, evidence, and solutions to prevent and respond to violence against women (VAW), violence against children (VAC), and other forms of gender-based violence (GBV).

Held every two years, this action-driven event brings together over 1,500 global stakeholders, researchers, practitioners, survivors, policymakers, funders, and activists to share cutting-edge research, challenge the status quo, and co-create solutions for a world free from violence.

This year, it is co-hosted by the SVRI and the Prevention Collective, comprised of the UN Joint Programme on Gender-Based Violence Prevention in Southeast Asia, implemented by UN Women and UNFPA, and the Southeast Asia GBV Prevention Platform, both supported by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Being selected from among many submissions is a wonderful opportunity, but for me, the significance goes beyond presenting research. It is an opportunity to bring a question that has shaped much of my work into a global conversation: what does justice look like when survivors are truly placed at its heart?

My research on survivor-centred justice examines the place of survivors within justice processes and the importance of their legal recognition, voice and agency. Too often, survivors are spoken about, consulted or supported, while the structures and decisions that shape justice remain largely in the hands of others.

Survivor-centred justice asks us to go further.

It cannot simply mean doing more for survivors. It means building justice with them recognising survivors not only as recipients of justice, but as people whose experiences, knowledge and perspectives should help shape what justice becomes.

At the SVRI Forum, I will share some of the central findings from my research and my book, Survivor-Centred Justice. I also look forward to listening, learning and connecting with survivors, researchers, practitioners and organisations working to make responses to violence more humane, meaningful and accountable.

This conversation is also at the heart of Pursue Peace. Through Pursue Peace, I hope to continue creating spaces where survivor voices, research and practice can come together and where justice begins not only with institutions and processes, but with the people whose lives have been affected.

I look forward to continuing the conversation in Bangkok.