title: Deconstructing male violence against women: the men stopping violence community-accountability model.
abstract: Men Stopping Violence (MSV), a 24-year-old metro Atlanta-based organization that works to end male violence against women, uses an ecological, community-based accountability model as the foundation of its analysis of the problem of male violence against women and of its work with individuals and in communities. The MSV community-accountability model of male violence against women offers a view of the cultural and historical mechanisms that support violence against women. The model, and the strategies and programs that have grown out of it, demonstrate the potential for disrupting traditions of abuse and dominance at the individual, familial, local, national, and global levels.
authors.affiliation: Men Stopping Violence.
authors.forename: Ulester
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Douglas
authors.forename: Dick
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bathrick
authors.forename: Phyllis Alesia
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Perry
mesh_terms: D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D005260:Female; D005845:Georgia; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D017146:Models, Organizational; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012050:Rehabilitation, Vocational; D012922:Social Change; D012931:Social Environment; D012944:Social Support; D013179:Spouse Abuse / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D014504:Urban Health