P2P-Men & masculinities; Diana Ismailova: https://vimeo.com/146952599 Ideas wall
- Need to differentiate messages targeting men and messages targeting women.
- The gender justice movement should remain women-lead despite the necessity to work with men.
- It is challenging to find true or meaningful way of engaging with men and boys.
- The way boys are being socialized has to be questioned.
- Male gender champions approach can deny agency to women and reward for just expected standards.
- Women are also shaped by patriarchy and need to transform their own attitudes and behaviors related to masculinity norms.
- Engaging with men in a human-rights-based approach.
- Including/welcoming men and boys can create tensions related to acknowledging their privilege and responsibilities.
- Work with men needs to transcend the work on privilege and responsibilities.
- We need to pay attention to the risk of increase in domestic violence when working on women’s economic empowerment.
- It is essential to challenge heteronormativity.
- Challenges to feminism and gender equality are coming from men’s rights activists.
Key-strategies to overcome potential resistance to the concept of positive masculinity- Involve women’s rights organizations to work with men and boys.
- Anticipate potentially controversial points or obstacles for men to join: men presenting themselves as victims of the system as well triggering their violence, men joining the project deemed as “losers” by peers, project being considered as promoting homosexuality.
- Conduct a baseline to outline how men take care of women, identify topics of concerns for men and areas in which they can have a positive role.
- Understand the way men think and deconstruct negative behaviors.
- Remain careful on the vocabulary we use and especially words like “protection” or “defending women” as a risk of perpetuating traditional stereotypes and masculinity.
- Create spaces within which men can share and identify positive behaviors.
- Identify and learn from experiences in other areas of a same country or region in which gender-based violence is rejected.
- Identify clearly what changes are expected in men’s and boys’ behaviors regarding gender-based violence.
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Interrogations- Should we question the role of biology in our work (boys being born “a certain way”) and how it influences the way men and boys receive messages?
- How do we work with men and boys as allies without reinforcing patriarchy and recreating inequalities?
- In what instances/contexts is it perhaps more effective to be confrontational (or not), when working with men?

ResourcesJewkes_et al-2014-LANCET-From Work with Men and Boys to Changes of Social Norms
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Skills Building Session “SASA Community Mobilization”. NatsnetGhebrebrhan_RaisingVoices-P2PNatsnetGhebrebrhan_RaisingVoices-P2P Skills Building Session. “E-learing, ICT, teens” DrAissaToure_OneWorld-P2PDrAissaToure_OneWorld-P2P Joselyn Bigirwa, jbigirwa@oxfam.org.uk Marketplace. “Multi-stakeholder”. Joselyn Bigirwa_Multistakeholder program Uganda_P2PJoselyn Bigirwa_Multistak...holder program Uganda_P2P SVRI presentation. “Women’s political participation” Saleema Munir - Women's Political Leadership Pakistan - SVRI presentationSaleema Munir - Women's P...istan - SVRI presentation Monica Bau, mbau@oxfamintermon.org Marketplace/SVRI. “Indigenous women, traditional leaders” Monica Bau - Indigenous Women Guatemala - SVRI forumMonica Bau - Indigenous W...en Guatemala - SVRI forum Doreen Fernando, doreenf@oxfam.org.au SVRI. “STAV project Solomon, community mobilization” Doreen Fernando - STAV Solomon Islands - SVRI presentationDoreen Fernando - STAV So...lands - SVRI presentation Conor Molloy, Conor.Molloy@oxfamnovib.nl Marketplace/SVRI. “Edutainment” Conor Malloy- Bangladesh Edutainment- SVRI forumConor Malloy- Bangladesh Edutainment- SVRI forum SVRI. “Conceptual framework” Laura Haylock - Oxfam's Conceptual Framework on Changing Social Norms - SVRI and P2PLaura Haylock - Oxfam's C...cial Norms - SVRI and P2P Diana Ismailova, Dismailova@oxfam.org.uk “Engaging Men” DianaIsmailova_Tajikistan _Men Engage_P2PDianaIsmailova_Tajikistan _Men Engage_P2P Think Tank. “Barriers to positive masculinity”.
Julie Thekkudan, julie@oxfamindia.org Think Thank. “Translating online change to change on the ground”.
Brigitte Topinanty, btdionadji@oxfam.org.uk Think Tank. “Theatre for advocacy with traditional leaders and government”.
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