TED Talk: How We Turned the Tide on Domestic Violence by Esta Soler

This TED talk by Esta Soler highlights four steps taken to combat intimate partner violence: Community organizing, lobbying, engaging and educating the public, and engaging men, specifically.

When Esta Soler lobbied for a bill outlawing domestic violence in 1984, one politician called it the ‘Take the Fun Out of Marriage Act.’ ‘If only I had Twitter then,’ she mused. In this sweeping, optimistic talk, Soler charts 30 years of tactics and technologies — from the Polaroid camera to social media — that led to a 64% drop in domestic violence in the U.S.

SOURCE: TED • AUTHOR: Esta Soler • LAST UPDATED: December 1, 2013