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Perpetrators of Gender-based Violence Online
The World Wide Web Foundation, established in 2009 by Rosemary Leith and inventor of the web, Sir
Tim Berners-Lee, strives to foster an open, safe, trusted, and empowering web for everyone. A leading
barrier in realizing this vision is the prevalence and persistence of Online Gender-Based Violence. In
partnership with Women’s Rights Online (WRO), a global network of leading gender justice and digital
rights organizations, they have used the proven model of the Technology Policy Design Labs (TPDL)1, to
convene human centered design approaches to better diagnose the scope of the problems and build
multi-stakeholder solutions.
The Perpetrator research team2 developed a research methodology to identify and collect existing data
from different actors3 from across the globe. The first phase marked the initial stage of an ongoing effort
to better understand the current state of research on OGBV perpetrators by collecting and revising 50+
relevant documents from different regions of the world4. From the data collection process, we subsequently moved to a series of TPDL workshops, each dedicated to developing a research roadmap5 to identify research gaps and generate knowledge on the perpetrators of OGBV6. You can find all the systematized information of the TPDL discussions here. These materials collectively fed the development
of this final document.
We acknowledge that women, men, and all genders experience OGBV, yet the majority of targets are
women, girls and other marginalized communities, and it is this demographic that is the focus of our study. Moreover, we have identified a critical gap in existing research and discourse surrounding OGBV: while there is a wealth of information collected from the perspective of survivors, there is little attention given to identifying perpetrators, their motivations, and how to mitigate their impact. By comprehensively examining the dynamics and motivations of perpetrators and the enabling forces that drive perpetrator