In the United States, several training programs now exist and operate to provide experience and education to law enforcement on effective strategies and responses to domestic violence. Recently, these experiences and lessons from the United States were taken abroad by the U.S. State Department's Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) to the Central Asian Republic of Kazakhstan in an effort to train police on the development of effective strategies in responding to domestic violence. This training project was administered by the Florida State University's School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. The project takes a train-the-trainer approach where participants learn to become trainers within their own communities. Several problems were addressed that stood in the way of effective law enforcement responses in Kazakhstan. Drawing on the lessons learned in responses to domestic violence in North America, the U.S. trainers and the Kazakhstani police have reached out to women's activists and non-governmental organizations to assist in providing training to law enforcement. Regardless of the unique challenges defining domestic violence in diverse cultural settings, law enforcement responses to the problem require the cooperation and coordination of local stakeholders. References