Brisbane, more boys and young men are being taught about respect and consent to gender-based violence, but better programs and online tools will help.
In my 20s I joined a march of 400 men through the streets of Melbourne Australia under banners emphasizing our commitment to ending men's violence against women.
More than thirty years ago, that was the first time men joined forces with women to take collective action to end gender-based violence, but these days such activities are not so strange. This marked 16 days of activism against violence, with more men playing a role in ending men's violence against women and girls.
The number of men participating in efforts such as the White Ribbon Campaign has increased, initiatives focused on including men and boys have grown over the past decade, and there are organizations and networks involving men around the world.More men are speaking out when they hear victim blaming comments, talking to their sons about building healthy relationships, and joining campaigns against domestic and sexual violence. These men are There are common pathways into why people make a commitment to end violence.
Some men hear the experiences of women who have been victims of violence, whether from a female friend or relative or a public survivor advocate, and feel that no one should have to go through this.
Some men have political and moral commitments, whether to simple values or fairness or to ideals of justice and equality, and they see men's violence as fundamentally different from these. Some men are exposed to feminist ideas, whether through mothers or at school or university.Other men grew up with alternative role models, such as fathers and uncles who modeled respect and nonviolence.
Still others feel constrained by traditional, rigid masculinity and support women's efforts to challenge gender norms and inequalities that foster violence against women.
Finally, some men are victims of violence themselves and this fosters a deep dislike of violence and abuse. Men's anti-violence advocacy has existed for at least four decades. My first experience of this work was in the early 1990s with the grassroots network Men Against Sexual Assault: organizing rallies and marches, running workshops with boys and young men, and trying to challenge gendered social norms.However, over the past few years there has been a huge increase in interest in involving men and boys in violence prevention.
Violence prevention programs for men and boys have grown rapidly. These include primary prevention programs, which aim to prevent initial crime and victimization and, for general groups of men or boys, a secondary and tertiary prevention programs, which aim to prevent early crime and victimisation. Are involved in violence or are at risk of doing so.
There is increasing focus on involving men in the prevention and reduction of specific forms of violence and abuse, including sexual violence and sexual harassment in the workplace.
Work is becoming smarter, with increasing attention to diversity and inequalities among men, for example.There is widespread community support: a 2020 survey in Australia found that just under 80 percent agreed that "there are things all men can do to help prevent violence against women". Only four percent disagreed.
There is growing evidence that well-designed interventions can make positive changes.
Policy and financing support is also increasing. In Australia's national prevention frameworks and policies, greater focus has been placed on challenging harmful forms of masculinity and involving men and boys in prevention.These trends are also visible around the world, where greater attention is paid to including men and boys in violence prevention policy programming and advocacy.
This does not mean that the only or most important way to prevent and reduce gender-based violence is to work with men and boys. But it does mean that it must be part of our efforts.
The most common violence prevention strategies targeted at men include educating boys and young men. In schools and elsewhere, programs invite men to think critically about norms of masculinity, teach about healthy and respectful relationships, and encourage nonviolence and gender equality.Well-designed educational programs – multi-sessional, interactive and participatory, aimed at tackling gender-based drivers of violence and abuse, taught by skilled teachers – can reduce violent attitudes and even actual rates of crime. Can also reduce.
Other educational efforts are targeted at fathers, male faith and community leaders, and others in particular workplaces.
The second strategy involves community development and mobilization. Although these are less common than education, they are just as important. Mobilizing men as anti-violence advocates, working in partnership with women and women's rights groups, can achieve both individual and collective change. A powerful way to promote.Community-level strategies that target modifiable characteristics of the community – structural, economic, political, cultural or environmental – are needed to reduce the risk of violent crime and victimization.
Communications and social marketing are the third type of strategy. These range from efforts ranging from print, radio, TV or Internet materials to multi-component community campaigns that involve grassroots programs and mobilization. Communication campaigns to change broader social norms of male dominance in families, male sexual authority, etc. are valued – which influences the use of violence by some men.
Although engaging men and boys in ending gender-based violence is firmly on the agenda of an increasing number of countries, there is still much to be done.We need to increase the work, because most of it is small and scattered. We need to focus it less on changing individuals and their relationships and more on changing the organizations and structures that shape them. We need to increase the capacity of teachers and practitioners to work effectively with men and boys. Needed. We need clear standards for effective practice in work with men and boys, although checklists, funding guidelines and other principles are beginning to emerge.
We must make greater use of online tools and spaces to include men and boys and we must intervene in sexist online communities, through which some boys and men are radicalized into misogyny and violence against women.Women and girls, as well as men and boys, have an important role to play in ending gender-based violence. Prevention efforts can include men and boys by: promoting non-violence and gender equality, Using positive influence on boys and men, and shifting patriarchal masculine norms and cultures that are the root of gender-based violence. (360info.org) PY
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In my 20s I joined a march of 400 men through the streets of Melbourne Australia under banners emphasizing our commitment to ending men's violence against women.
More than thirty years ago, that was the first time men joined forces with women to take collective action to end gender-based violence, but these days such activities are not so strange. This marked 16 days of activism against violence, with more men playing a role in ending men's violence against women and girls.
The number of men participating in efforts such as the White Ribbon Campaign has increased, initiatives focused on including men and boys have grown over the past decade, and there are organizations and networks involving men around the world.More men are speaking out when they hear victim blaming comments, talking to their sons about building healthy relationships, and joining campaigns against domestic and sexual violence. These men are There are common pathways into why people make a commitment to end violence.
Some men hear the experiences of women who have been victims of violence, whether from a female friend or relative or a public survivor advocate, and feel that no one should have to go through this.
Some men have political and moral commitments, whether to simple values or fairness or to ideals of justice and equality, and they see men's violence as fundamentally different from these. Some men are exposed to feminist ideas, whether through mothers or at school or university.Other men grew up with alternative role models, such as fathers and uncles who modeled respect and nonviolence.
Still others feel constrained by traditional, rigid masculinity and support women's efforts to challenge gender norms and inequalities that foster violence against women.
Finally, some men are victims of violence themselves and this fosters a deep dislike of violence and abuse. Men's anti-violence advocacy has existed for at least four decades. My first experience of this work was in the early 1990s with the grassroots network Men Against Sexual Assault: organizing rallies and marches, running workshops with boys and young men, and trying to challenge gendered social norms.However, over the past few years there has been a huge increase in interest in involving men and boys in violence prevention.
Violence prevention programs for men and boys have grown rapidly. These include primary prevention programs, which aim to prevent initial crime and victimization and, for general groups of men or boys, a secondary and tertiary prevention programs, which aim to prevent early crime and victimisation. Are involved in violence or are at risk of doing so.
There is increasing focus on involving men in the prevention and reduction of specific forms of violence and abuse, including sexual violence and sexual harassment in the workplace.
Work is becoming smarter, with increasing attention to diversity and inequalities among men, for example.There is widespread community support: a 2020 survey in Australia found that just under 80 percent agreed that "there are things all men can do to help prevent violence against women". Only four percent disagreed.
There is growing evidence that well-designed interventions can make positive changes.
Policy and financing support is also increasing. In Australia's national prevention frameworks and policies, greater focus has been placed on challenging harmful forms of masculinity and involving men and boys in prevention.These trends are also visible around the world, where greater attention is paid to including men and boys in violence prevention policy programming and advocacy.
This does not mean that the only or most important way to prevent and reduce gender-based violence is to work with men and boys. But it does mean that it must be part of our efforts.
The most common violence prevention strategies targeted at men include educating boys and young men. In schools and elsewhere, programs invite men to think critically about norms of masculinity, teach about healthy and respectful relationships, and encourage nonviolence and gender equality.Well-designed educational programs – multi-sessional, interactive and participatory, aimed at tackling gender-based drivers of violence and abuse, taught by skilled teachers – can reduce violent attitudes and even actual rates of crime. Can also reduce.
Other educational efforts are targeted at fathers, male faith and community leaders, and others in particular workplaces.
The second strategy involves community development and mobilization. Although these are less common than education, they are just as important. Mobilizing men as anti-violence advocates, working in partnership with women and women's rights groups, can achieve both individual and collective change. A powerful way to promote.Community-level strategies that target modifiable characteristics of the community – structural, economic, political, cultural or environmental – are needed to reduce the risk of violent crime and victimization.
Communications and social marketing are the third type of strategy. These range from efforts ranging from print, radio, TV or Internet materials to multi-component community campaigns that involve grassroots programs and mobilization. Communication campaigns to change broader social norms of male dominance in families, male sexual authority, etc. are valued – which influences the use of violence by some men.
Although engaging men and boys in ending gender-based violence is firmly on the agenda of an increasing number of countries, there is still much to be done.We need to increase the work, because most of it is small and scattered. We need to focus it less on changing individuals and their relationships and more on changing the organizations and structures that shape them. We need to increase the capacity of teachers and practitioners to work effectively with men and boys. Needed. We need clear standards for effective practice in work with men and boys, although checklists, funding guidelines and other principles are beginning to emerge.
We must make greater use of online tools and spaces to include men and boys and we must intervene in sexist online communities, through which some boys and men are radicalized into misogyny and violence against women.Women and girls, as well as men and boys, have an important role to play in ending gender-based violence. Prevention efforts can include men and boys by: promoting non-violence and gender equality, Using positive influence on boys and men, and shifting patriarchal masculine norms and cultures that are the root of gender-based violence. (360info.org) PY
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