The National Council on Identity Policy (NCIDP)

The National Council on Identity Policy (NCIDP) was born of the struggles of one tenacious survivor of domestic violence and stalking. The NCIDP continues her work with the help of many.

The National Council on Identity Policy (NCIDP) is about, for, and by women surviving violence.

The NCIDP recognizes that men can be victims of domestic violence, stalking, terrorizing, rape, and more. However, the average woman escaping domestic violence and stalking is typically far more disadvantaged in such an escape by socioeconomic biases and institutionalized violence. This disadvantage is compounded tremendously by any minority status that a woman may have, and cases of violence, and the effects of violence, impact minority women with grave disproportionality. Consequently, although the issues raised by the NCIDP can affect anyone, including those not directly impacted by intimate violence, many of the personal stories that the NCIDP adopts into its "Case Studies" are the stories of minority women.

The National Council on Identity Policy is a grass-roots women's organization without political affiliations, and does not subscribe to other bodies of political ideology. The NCIDP believes in, and focuses on, the fight against violence, particularly intimate violence and institutionalized violence, as it most affects those who must survive it.

The work of The National Council on Identity Policy centers on the anthropological study of the laws and rights that most help women to survive violence, those of privacy and control over their own identities, and is rounded out with intensive studies of psychosocial and socioeconomic factors surrounding violence.

The Legal Anthropologists and Legal Analysts at the The National Council on Identity Policy have been variously described as, "the nation's foremost experts on identity law and identity rights", and, "dangerous".

The birth of The National Council on Identity Policy is repeated in the header of every page as a critical facet that remains enveloped at the heart of the mission of the NCIDP.

Society currently well recognizes rape, domestic violence, stalking, kidnapping, and attempted murder as some of the most heinous personal crimes committed upon survivors. The founder of the NCIDP experienced all of those types of crime, and multiple incidents of many of them. This without involving herself in crime, or violence or gang activity, or even addiction or illegal drugs of any kind, throughout her life.

The mission of the NCIDP continues to be shaped by such experiences. In most NCIDP file cases, the victim had already survived multiple incidents of perpetrations from among those crimes listed in the paragraph above.

Still, The National Council on Identity Policy has also encountered individuals who share an interest in the issues that the NCIDP raises, but for reasons apart from the survival of violence. The NCIDP supports all who confront these issues as the NCIDP describes them: the NCIDP considers to be absolutely inane for anyone to "need" any specific "reason" for exercising their fundamental rights in a nation of "liberty", and that the broader the exercise of such rights, the easier the exercise of such rights will be for those who do have such need and reason. Consequently, the NCIDP has incorporated the broader perspectives of such other demographic groups with shared interest, when practicable. Yet the NCIDP considers paramount the organizational memory of its own roots in these issues.