Engaging Men in the Fight against Gender Violence

Henny Slegh, University Of Kigali, Rwanda Annemiek Richters, University Of Kigali, Rwanda Zoe Marks, University Of Oxford, UK Sara Meger, University Of Melbourne, Australia Kerrie Thornhill, University Of Oxford, UK Josephine Ahikire, Makerere University, Uganda Christopher Isike, University Of Zululand, South Africa Admire Mare, Rhodes University, South Africa Sabine Hirschauer, University Of Virginia, USA

• 1. Masculinities, Gender and Violence: A Framework for Analysis; Jane Freedman and Sarah Jacobson 2. What Do Men Think? The Role of Cultural (Mis)conceptions in Perpetuating Male Violence Against Women in Neo-colonial Africa; Christopher Isike 3. Militarized Masculinities and the Political Economy of Wartime Sexual Violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo; Sara Meger 4. "You must sit on the old mat to ply the new one": Rethinking Threatened Masculinities and Post-conflict Gender Violence in Liberia; Kerrie Thornhill 5. Listening to Perpetrators: Connecting Wartime Violence with Post-Conflict Interventions; Zoe Marks 6. Masculinity and Gender-based Violence in Rwanda: The Potential Contribution of Community-based Strategies to make a Change; Henny Slegh and Annemiek Richters 7. About the Notion of Hope: Simelela: A Model of a South African Rape Crisis Center; Sabine C. Hirschauer 8. The Way Forward in Engaging Men and Boys in Prevention of Violence; Jane Freedman