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The Institutes

Since 2013, SSI has held six Institutes in person, with online events in between.

Each Institute has taken up questions from the place where it met. Four of the six were held in Kampala, Uganda, where SSI began.

  1. 2025

    SSI VI: Across genders, across continents. Kampala, 2025

    Theme: Across genders, across continents

    Three days in Kampala on trauma, healing, health care, humanitarian response and law, with survivor-led groups taking part throughout.

  2. 2023
    Black-and-white photograph of a young man in a padded jacket standing outdoors

    Workshop for service providers, Seoul, 2023

    A two-day workshop for South Korean service providers with Tacteen Naeil and ECPAT International, following up the Global Boys Initiative South Korea report.

  3. 2022
    Two men greeting each other with their foreheads touching, with other participants standing behind them

    SSI V: Kampala, 2022

    Theme: Building common ground

    The first in-person meeting after the pandemic, held in Kampala on the theme Building Common Ground.

  4. 2020

    Planned Institute, United Kingdom, 2020

    A meeting planned in the UK for 2020 did not go ahead because of the COVID-19 pandemic. SSI held a series of online webinars in 2022 instead.

  5. 2019

    SSI IV: Kampala, 2019

    Theme: Bridging the sexual violence and torture divide

    Returned to Kampala to look at the divide between sexual violence and torture.

  6. 2017

    SSI III: Christchurch, 2017

    Theme: Colonialism, systemic racism and institutional abuse

    Hosted by a Māori cultural institution; looked at how colonialism contributed to the legacy of sexual violence.

  7. 2015

    SSI II: Phnom Penh, 2015

    Theme: Sexual violence under the Khmer Rouge, and child sexual abuse against boys

    Held in Phnom Penh, with participants from 35 countries.

  8. 2013

    SSI I: Kampala, 2013

    Theme: Conflict-related sexual violence

    The first in-person Institute, focused on conflict-related sexual violence.

No next Institute has been announced [to confirm with RLP].