Violence against women and violence against children: field intersections, gaps, and tensions.

The encouragement for interdisciplinary collaboration has not always been the norm. This brief explores the intersections, gaps, and tensions between VAC and VAW work. 

The encouragement for interdisciplinary collaboration, however, has not always been the norm. Historically, research, programs, and policies on VAW and VAC have been implemented separately. This historical divide continues to drive separate funding streams, strategies, terminologies, rights treaties, and bodies of research. Given the substantial evidence of the intersections of VAW and VAC, collaboration between fields is necessary to achieve the SDGs by 2030.