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Chart: Honour related violence

This chart shows the different motives for honour related violence and the ways they are interrelated, ranging from social sanctions and reactions to insults to actions to restore lost honour. Of course, bloodrevenge and honour killings are included too as forms of honour related violence. Also available in Dutch.

Chart: Routes Towards Engagement And Marriage (North Africa, the Middle East and South West Asia)

This chart shows the roads that most people in the Middle East, regardless of religion, follow to their engagement and marriage. With the chart as a reference, it will be more easy to find adequate questions to ask your client regarding their case and come earlier to the essence of their problem.
Furthermore, the chart will help you discuss more efficiently your client's case with your colleagues. For example, the chart shows in which instances it is possible to speak of a forced marriage.
In the right hands, this chart is an invaluable aid for all those who are dealing with problems around marriages of people in the Middle East, North Africa and South West Asia. Further available in Dutch, Turkish and Arabic.

Şema: Nişanlanma ve evlenmeye götüren yollar

(Turkish) Bu şema, Orta Doğu'da nişanlanma ve evlenmeye varmak için genelde, yani din inanca bakılmadan, izlenen yolları gösterir.
Şemadan hareket etseniz, tüm adımlarla ilgili sorulması gereken sorular kolayca aklınıza gelir. Aynı zamanda şemayı beraber çalıştığınız kişilere göstererek sorunun özünü onlara çabuk kavratırsınız. Örneğin, şemadan zorunlu evliliğin ne olduğu çabuk anlaşılır.
Şema, Orta Doğu asıllı ailelerdeki eş seçme, nişlanlanma ve evlenmeyle ilgili sorunları hem anlamak hem de izah etmek için size çok faydalı olur.

(Arabic version)

Elopement

The goal of an elopement is to force the relatives of a girl or a woman to agree to a marriage with a specific candidate. Often the candidate has earlier been rejected or his marriage proposals are (justly or unjustly) deemed hopeless.

With the help of this chart it you will more easily understand which stages an elopement takes and in which situations things are more likely to get out of hand.

Kız kaçması

(Turkish version) Kız kaçması nişanlanma ve evlenmenin süreci özel bir yolu. Kaçmanın hedefi, kadın/kız tarafına çiftin evlenmelerini kabul ettirmektir. Kaçıran kişinin genellikle önceden istemi reddedilmiş veyahut gidip kadını/kızı istemesi (haksız ya haklı olarak) temelsiz sayılan bir delikanlı.

Bu şemayı izleyerek kaçmada izlenen adımları kolayca takip eder, hangi durumlarda tehlikle oluştuğunu çabuk kavrarsınız.

الخطف

(Arabic version)

مقصد الخطف (أو السرقة) هو اجبار عالئلة الفتاة على تزويجها الفتاة الى الخاطب. تصف هده اللوحة الخطف بارادة الطرفين. ان الخاطف كثيرا ما شخص ردت عائلة الفتاة طلبه يدها او شخص يعتبر طلبه محالا.

Chart: Divorce initiated by the wife (North Africa, the Middle East and South West Asia)

This chart shows the decisions that most people in the Middle East, regardless of religion, have to take when they want to file for divorce. Along the process, the goal gradually changes from solving the problem to a divorce. With the chart as a reference, it will be more easy to find adequate questions to ask your client regarding their case and come earlier to the essence of their problem.
Furthermore, the chart will help you discuss more efficiently your client's case with your colleagues.
In the right hands, this chart is an invaluable aid for all those who are dealing with problems around divorces of people in the Middle East, North Africa and South West Asia. Further available in Dutch.

Categories Of Conflicts Regarding Honour Related Violence

The chart of Categories Of Conflicts Regarding Honour Related Violence we developed in 2007 has been used much in the Netherlands. This chart allows you to evaluate - together with your client - the gravity of a given case. Is here family honour at stake, or is there another problem (that potentially can be just as dangerous)?

The chart shows in which case a situation could escalate, but whether it will, and, if so, in which way, depends on still other factors that differ from one case to the other. So use the chart prudently.

Categories Of Conflicts Regarding Honour Related Violence

There is much discussion about forced marriages, without there being a clear method to determine a forced marriage. This chart intends to cover this gap. By means of the chart you first establish whether there is actually a marriage, or plans for a marriage (for without a marriage or plans, there cannot be a forced marriage). Then, secondly, you determine whether, in a given case, there are forms of coercion. For coercion in a general sense there exist objective criteria that, e.g., also apply to abduction, rape and forced labor.