HARASSMENT PREVENTION AND RESPONSE (Military Focus)
The Department of Defense does not tolerate or condone harassment. Harassment jeopardizes combat readiness and mission accomplishment, weakens trust within the ranks, and erodes unit cohesion. To learn more about the principles related to Harassment Prevention and various resources available to learn more about harassing behaviors please see below.
Harassment can be oral, visual, written, physical, or electronic. Harassment can occur through electronic communications, including social media, other forms of communication, and in person. Harassing behavior may include, but is not limited to: unwanted physical contact, offensive jokes, epithets or name-calling, ridicule or mockery, insults or put-downs, displays of offensive objects or imagery, offensive non-verbal gestures, stereotyping, intimidating acts, veiled threats of violence, threatening or provoking remarks, racial or other slurs, derogatory remarks about a person’s accent or disability, or displays of racially offensive symbols.
Behavior that is unwelcome or offensive to a reasonable person and that interferes with work performance or creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive work environment is prohibited. All allegations of harassment must be evaluated under the totality of the circumstances, to include an assessment of the nature of the conduct and the context in which the conduct occurred. In some circumstances, a single incident of harassing behavior is prohibited harassment whereas, in other circumstances, repeated or recurring harassing behavior may be required to constitute prohibited harassment.
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Harassment Prevention Tools Video (Awareness Overview)
The development of some items found within this tab. These changes include the Domain title changes from 'Relationship' to 'Interpersonal' and 'Community' to 'Organizational.' Additionally, the revision of DODI 1020.03 reinterpreted where some behaviors were located by definition and added the new behavior 'Stalking.'
Older developed items will not be modified to reflect the new changes. Future items developed will include/reorganize the terminology and behaviors appropriately. If you notice a disconnect, or if there is a question/concern on which is correct, refer to the updated DODI 1020.03 for more information.