While issues that have a sexual or racial connotations are the ones that most people will think about in relation with a CoC, there are other issues, e.g. abuse of power, that are important to consider for a CoC.
However, if coming to an agreement on how to implement the rules related sexual and racial misdonduct (how to behave, how to report and how to handle a report), I wonder how much more difficult this discussion will become when we discuss what abuse of power means (it is easier to label an abusive person a jerk and that’s it.) Perhaps an abusive person does not behave as such during the whole meeting, but he is enough of a psychopath to allienate and/or frighten others in a different context. So, if I know that someone attending a convention exercised a sexual misconduct or an abuse of power over me to the point to become traumatized for months afterwards, but the act happened in a different environment (not at the convention), should I make a report during the convention just because he and I are there and I'm feeling unconfortable? Should I make the report elsewhere (where?) because as someone said in another email we are a “close-knit community” (are we?) Or the only cases to be considered will be those that happen during the event? Laura Rozenberg
