title: Context, Challenges, and Tensions in Global Efforts to Engage Men in the Prevention of Violence against Women: An Ecological Analysis.
abstract: As gender-based violence prevention programs around the world increasingly include efforts to engage men and boys as antiviolence allies, both the profound benefits and the inherent complexities of these efforts are emerging. Acknowledging and exploring tensions associated with engaging men is an important element of thoughtfully fostering men's antiviolence ally movements so as to both respectfully invite men into anti-violence work and create effective, gender-equitable prevention programming. To this end, this study presents descriptive findings regarding challenges associated with men's engagement programming from in-depth interviews with twenty-nine representatives of organizations that engage men and boys in preventing violence against women and girls in Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania, and North and South America. Programs reported negotiating complex issues related to gender, the intersectional nature of men's identities, and establishing legitimacy and sustainability within communities while maintaining ideological focus and consistency. Additionally, programs reported that these tensions manifest across ecological layers of analysis, and impact both the participation of individual men and the programs' experiences in community and national contexts.
authors.affiliation: Social Work Program, University of Washington, Tacoma, WA, USA.
authors.forename: Erin A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Casey
authors.affiliation: School of Social Work, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN, USA.
authors.forename: Juliana
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Carlson
authors.affiliation: School of Social Work, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
authors.forename: Cathlyn
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Fraguela-Rios
authors.affiliation: Augsburg College Minneapolis, MN, USA.
authors.forename: Ericka
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kimball
authors.affiliation: School of Social Work, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
authors.forename: Tova B
authors.initials: TB
authors.lastname: Neugut
authors.affiliation: School of Social Work, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
authors.forename: Richard M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Tolman
authors.affiliation: School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Jeffrey L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Edleson
keywords: engaging men; globalization; prevention; violence against women