Involving Men in Ending Violence against Women

'Involving Men in Ending Violence Against Women is a welcome critical reflection on the reasons for involving men and boys in development programming to end violence against women, and to advance gender equality more broadly. Looking beyond the theory, Joyce Wu sets out to examine the realities of mens roles in practice, the challenges and the imperfect outcomes, and the assumptions in the aid context about appropriate roles for men in combatting violence against women. In doing so she highlights the extent to which emphasis put on involving men and boys is depoliticising the womens empowerment agenda in multiple ways. She also articulates how the trend hugely underestimates, and therefore undermines, the work of womens organisations in the field of VAW who have been involving men for years in ways that are strategic, long term, and embedded in societies.' Kate Bishop (Principal Consultant Gender Based Violence, Social Development Direct), Gender & Development

Joyce Wu is a Research Fellow at the Australian National University, Australia

List of Acronyms and Abbreviations List of Figures, Tables, and Maps Chapter 1. Introduction 1.1 How I Got Involved 1.2 What is "Violence against Women"? 1.3 How Violence against Women Became a Development Issue 1.4 Feminist Contributions to Understanding and Responding to Mens Violence against Women 1.5 Mens Role in Ending Violence against Women 1.6 Mens Responsibility to End Violence against Women the Ethical Argument 1.7 Mens Interests in Ending Violence against Women The Incentive Argument 1.8 Rationale for the Focus on Conflict and Post-Conflict Contexts 1.9 Business as Usual: Violence against women during conflict and post-conflict situations 1.10 Book Structure Chapter 2. The Alliance between Men and Anti-Violence against Women Initiatives, and Researching About It in Conflict Settings 2.1 Strategies for Involving Men: Framing the recruitment message to increase mens interests in violence against women programs 2.2 Going Native: Using local cultural or religious frameworks to encourage mens participation in violence against women programs 2.3 Framing mens anti-violence against women initiatives within conflict and post-conflict situations 2.4 Fieldwork Preparation 2.5 Fieldwork Locations and Security Matters 2.5 Partnering with Host Organisations and Minimising Security Risks 2.6 The Rationale for Qualitative Research Method and Feminist Perspective Analysis 2.7 Critical Self-Reflection as a Researcher and Outsider 2.8 Interviewing Experiences 2.9 Conclusion Chapter 3. From Cockfighting to Martial Arts: The Timor Leste Story 3.1 Violence against Women in Timor Leste: The forms and extent of the situation 3.2 Causes and Contributing Factors towards Violence against Women in Timor Leste since 2000 3.2.1 Cultural Beliefs and Practices 3.2.2 The Role of the Catholic Church in Womens Status and Gender Relations 3.3 Stakeholders and Organisations Working on Anti-Violence against Women in Timor Leste 3.4 Activities and Organisations that Work with Men and Boys in Violence against Women Initiatives 3.5 Reality Check: A researcher caught in the troubled waters of aid politics and own expectations * 3.6 Re-thinking the Research Focus 3.7 Tension between Partners and Stakeholders and Aid Politics 3.8 Impact of the Catholic Church upon Gender Programs 3.9 Cultural Norms and Practices which Discriminate against Women Observation from Oecussi 3.10 Violence and Culture: Case studies of martial art school and manu futu 3.11 Case Studies of Individual Mens Activism on Gender Equality 3.12 Conclusion Chapter 4. "Please tell the world about us": Fieldwork findings from Pakistan 4.1 Violence against Women in Pakistan: Extent and current legislation 4.2 Causes and Contributing Factors towards Violence against Women in Pakistan: Cultural beliefs and practices 4.3 Stakeholders and Organisations Working on Violence against Women in Pakistan 4.4 Dilemmas for NGOs "doing gender" in Pakistan and the Contradiction of Identity Politics and Values 4.4.1 Weak Response from Law Enforcement 4.4.2 Parallel Legal Systems and Their Impact upon Women 4.4.3 Hostility Towards Gender Equality and Womens Rights 4.4.4. Balancing Between Womens Issues and Involving Men 4.5 Resistor of Male Dominance or Gender-Sensitive Patriarchy?: A case study from the Humqadam Project 4.6 Case Study from Oxfam Great Britains We Can Campaign 4.6.1 Funding and Ownership of We Can 4.6.2 The Premise of We Can 4.6.3 From Smoking Addiction to Violence against Women: The transtheoretical model, its applications, and its limitations 4.6.4 Recruitment Strategies Used by We Can Partner Organisations 4.6.5 The Gender Dimension of Change Makers Activism 4.6.6 We Can Campaigns Challenges and Issues 4.6.7 Social Divisions amongst Change Makers 4.6.8 Inequality among the Change Makers 4.6.9 Oxfam Great Britains Evaluation of We Can Campaign i