Core Value
Commitment and Responsibility
Professional Development:
As an individual or as part of continuing professional development of personnel, there are some resources which can be valuable in supporting the development and capacity building around this Core Murad Code Value.
The Murad Code website which includes the Murad Code in several different languages, as well as several resources, webinars, tools and guidance which can help you understand and apply the Code. Listen to survivors, practitioners and others discuss its importance and how they have used the Code themselves. https://www.muradcode.com/
IICI (Murad Code Project), “In Our Own Words: Survivor Perspectives for Those Gathering and Using Information About Systematic and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence” (2026), available at https://www.muradcode.com/survivor-perspectives-resource
UK Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict (PSVI) International Alliance, “Survivor-Centred Approach: Best Practices from Members of the International Alliance on Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict” (2025), available at https://clixby.app/uploads/block_files/d9b2167a497fccd059e2f8b44b2f42de.pdf
For different sectors:
IICI (Murad Code Project), “Open-Source Practitioner’s Guide to the Murad Code” (2025), available at https://www.muradcode.com/open-source-practitioners-guide
Dart Centre Europe, “Reporting on Sexual Violence in Conflict Guidelines” (2021), available at https://www.coveringcrsv.org/
Rutgers University, Journalism Initiative on Gender Peace and Security (JIG), “Silence and Omissions: A Media Guide for Covering GBV”, Chapter 1 Survivor-Centered Approach and Chapter 8 Training, Ethics and Glossary Resources (2020), available at https://gbvjournalism.org/book/table-of-contents