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YOUNG MEN AND VIOLENCE: Building voices of resistance

YOUNG MEN AND VIOLENCE: Building voices of resistance. Gary Barker, PhD, International Director Promundo Brazil – Rwanda – US – Burundi – Portugal www.promundo.org.br. Topics. Reflect about key vulnerabilities of young men and how those affect violence

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YOUNG MEN AND VIOLENCE: Building voices of resistance

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  1. YOUNG MEN AND VIOLENCE: Building voices of resistance Gary Barker, PhD, International Director Promundo Brazil – Rwanda – US – Burundi – Portugal www.promundo.org.br

  2. Topics • Reflect about key vulnerabilities of young men and how those affect violence • Understanding the resistance to violence that we see every day • How to talk about what boys and men really care about and build their natural resistance to violence

  3. What does being a young man have to do with violence? • Leading causes of death for young men: traffic accidents, homicide, suicide • 450,000 homicide deaths annually, 50,000 deaths from conflicts, 80,000 from suicide • 80% of these are men • When we talk about lethal violence we are talking mostly about young men

  4. Brazil’s Missing Men(IBGE, 2011): Effects of persistent, high rates of homicide and traffic accidents (in millions)

  5. Few make it through boyhood unscathed (International Men and Gender Equality Survey or IMAGES – Promundo and ICRW)

  6. The making of defensive, bullying boys: Boys who are victims of violence in the home have lower self-esteem

  7. Men’s use of physical violence against female partner - IMAGES

  8. Correlates of Men’s use of violence against a female partner - IMAGES

  9. Men’s use of sexual violence linked to childhood sexual victimization (Men 15-59, IMAGES, 2011, ICRW and Promundo)

  10. The multiple ways violence pays forward: Witnessing violence and delinquency

  11. What explains the resistance to violence? • Involved, gender-equitable parents or caregivers • Close connections with someone who openly resisted violence • Supportive peer groups – resistance in groups easier than doing it alone • Higher reflective abilities – thinking about “what if” • Other male identities • Caring about or for someone else or something bigger than you

  12. Education Sector: Program H/M in schools • Structured consciousness raising” about gender and violence using a Paulo Freire approach • Activism and community campaigns led by youth “resistors” • Training of teachers via online training portal reaching 2000 teachers in 3 states in Brazil

  13. Results of Program H/M: 22 countries • 9 quasi-experimental evaluation studies found: • Reduction in violence-supportive attitudes among young men; • Decrease in bullying behavior (Bosnia), sexual harassment (India), and physical violence against female partners (Brazil); • Increased condom use (Brazil, Chile, India); • Reduced disruptive classroom behavior (Brazil, Balkans); • All compared to no change or negative change in control groups

  14. Program F: Using Football to Change Norms Related to Sexual Exploitation

  15. Living Peace: Trauma support, voices of resistance in post-conflict settings

  16. Why the campaign? • Approximately 4 out of 5 men will be fathers at some point in their lives • New global campaign in more than 25 countries to tap into the intergenerational transfer of caring

  17. What does a resistance approach look like? • Mapping the resistance – individuals, practices, sources of non-violence in communities • Engaging the resistors and the survivors and building on their resistance • Working from an assumption of shared desire for non-violence • Reinforcement of all of these with policy and services structure changes • Psychosocial support boys (and girls) and women and men who have witnessed or experience violence • Talking about issues that men and boys care about and care for – from “I don’t care” to “I care”

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