Riane Eisler

Official website of futurist, social-systems scientist, and cultural historian Riane Eisler

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Ending Violence Against Women and Girls Award Ceremony in Geneva

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Riane Eisler is co-chair of the Commission on Ending Violence Against Women and Girls of the World Future Council (of which she is a Commissioner). The Commission is announcing the awards for Best Policies to End Violence Against Women at the 2014 IPU Assembly (formerly known as the Inter-Parliamentary Conference), co-sponsored by the World Future Council. The IPU is the principal statutory body that expresses the views of the Inter-Parliamentary Union on political issues, bringing together parliamentarians to study international problems and make recommendations for action. This year the IPU adopted a strong consensus outcome document on ending violence against women.

Please see the booklet “Ending Violence Against Women and Girls”, which is also available in Spanish and French. The booklet provides information on the design, implementation, and benefits of the winning policies, as well as recommendations for policy makers. It was launched at the FPA ceremony and has already proven very popular: it has been distributed to all delegates at the IPU plenary, it will be distributed at UN HQ, and the WFC has already received orders for larger quantities by institutions who want to distribute it among their own audiences, for example from the Council of Europe and the Spanish government.

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Transforming Interprofessional Partnerships

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By Riane Eisler and Teddie Potter

Transforming Interprofessional Partnerships: A New Framework for Nursing and Partnership-Based Healthcare by Riane Eisler and Teddie Potter provides nurses and other healthcare workers practical tools to build a more effective, caring, and sustainable health care system and shows how to build real interprofessional teams and be full partners with patients, families, communities, and one another.

Transforming Interprofessional Partnerships: A New Framework for Nursing and Partnership-Based Healthcare provides nurses and other health care professionals tools to reexamine the current state of interdisciplinary partnerships and build a more effective, caring, and sustainable health care system, Riane Eisler, systems scientist and human rights attorney, and Teddie Potter, nurse advocate for collaborative care models and inclusivity and diversity in health care, present a structure to shift health care relationships from hierarchies of domination and isolated professions to high-functioning, collaborative teams ready to be full partners with patients, families, communities, and one another. This comprehensive text will benefit nurses by defining and illustrating full partnership in practice, education and research to improve communication and interprofessional collaboration. This book was selected as a winner of the prestigious American Journal of Nursing Book Awards in 2014, in the Professional Development and Issues category.

Reviews & Accolades

“Teddie Potter and Riane Eisler’s collaboration on this text is inspiring, bringing together Eisler’s vision for a caring economy and Potter’s vision for an evolved health care system. This text is greatly needed and should serve as a template for partnership across all disciplines of health care. The old patriarchal dominator system of our current biomedical model is obviously and painfully inefficient, impractical, and ineffective. Sure, it can handle acute health care needs, but its record at handling the most pervasive problem in our world today, chronic disease, is horrendous and shameful. Further, health care’s treatment of mothers is ghastly and inexcusable, with the US owning the highest infant and maternal mortality rate of all developed nations. It is long since time for change in our American health care system, and here, Eisler and Potter show us how.” —Ginger Garner

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Protecting the Majority of Humanity: Toward an Integrated Approach to Crimes against Present and Future Generations

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In the wake of the World Health Organization’s report showing that violence against women and girls is a global health problem of epidemic proportions, the publication of Riane Eisler’s chapter Protecting the Majority of Humanity: Toward an Integrated Approach to Crimes against Present and Future Generations in the new Cambridge University book Sustainable Development, International Criminal Justice, and Treaty Implementation edited by Sebastien Jodoin and Marie-Claire Cordonier Seggeris both timely and practical. Continuing her work of placing the rights, problems, and aspirations of the majority of humanity — women and children — on the international agenda as integral to a sustainable and just future for all, Eisler proposes that the international legal foundations of the Rome Statute and R2P (Right to Protect) can, and should, be used to end traditions of violence that not only take the lives of millions of women and children but also have very adverse impacts on economic and social health.

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Riane Eisler at Congressional Briefing – We Have to Make the Economic Argument

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The Caring Economy Campaign (CEC) of the Center for Partnership Studies (CPS), together with CEC coalition members, held a Congressional Briefing on Capitol Hill on “The Economic Return from Investing in Care Work and Early Childhood Education.” The event was introduced by Congressman Jim Moran of Virginia, and featured Dr. Riane Eisler. It highlighted the new CPS-Urban Institute report: National Indicators and Social Wealth, summarizing a two-day meeting in Washington, D.C. of experts on national indicators from the U.S. Department of Commerce, other government agencies, think tanks, and leading universities. National Indicators and Social Wealth recommends “a coordinated effort that can change the way we think about and measure our economy, providing more realistic tools to navigate a very different social, political and economic reality than existed at the birth of the GDP.”

A panel discussion followed Dr. Eisler’s presentation moderated by René Redwood, featuring Dr. W. Steven Barnett co-director of the National Institute of Early Education Research (NIEER), Dr. Sara Meléndez, a prominent Latina leader and advisor to the Caring Economy Campaign, and Shireen Mitchell, Co-Chair of the National Council of Women’s Organizations (NCWO) and founder of Digital Sisters. The briefing also featured the new report from NIEER: Getting the Facts Right on Pre-K and the President’s Pre-K Proposal. Co-sponsors of this briefing include NCWO, NIEER, Digital Sisters, National Association of Mother’s Centers, Center for Economic Policy Research, Gender Action, Family Values @ Work, and True Child.