This course provides a strong case and rationale on why we need to engage men in our violence prevention and gender justice efforts. It also highlights key barriers of what is getting in men’s way to participate and how we can overcome these barriers. The course provides pragmatic strategies to get ourselves ready to work with men while outlining evidence-based actions on how we can effectively engage men that includes learning how to frame the calls for action.
This course was developed to support practitioners, policy makers and advocates interested in using research to better engage and mobilize men in violence prevention and gender justice efforts. This course will be of interest to people who are getting started in their work with men and want to apply research-based practices to their violence prevention and gender justice efforts.
By the end of this course, participants will better understand:
1. The case for why we must engage men in our violence prevention and gender justice efforts
2. Barriers that are getting in men’s way to participate in violence prevention efforts
3. Effective ways to engage men
4. Getting ourselves ready to work with men
5. Learning how to frame the calls for action
We would like to acknowledge the research team at Shift: The Project to End Domestic Violence at the University of Calgary as there have been many people that have contributed to our thinking and design of this course. We would like to thank Lana Wells (course designer and facilitator), Elizabeth Dozois, Dr. Laura Pascoe, Dr. Caroline Claussen, and Elena Esina. We would also like to thank the community experts who reviewed the course including Jake Stika and Abbas Mancey as well as the NGM community of practice that we tested the content with.
Thank you to Women and Gender Equality for their funding to support the development of this course.
We also want to thank YOU for investing your time to learning how we can work with men to stop the perpetration of violence before it starts.
