Web resource:	https://aifs.gov.au:443/acssa/docs/Flood_Vioprev_HT.pdf
Type:	Conference Paper
Title:	Changing men: best practice in violence prevention work with men
Other Titles:	Home truths conference, 15 - 17 September 2004, Sheraton Towers, Southgate[cut]
Authors:	Flood, Michael
Keywords:	Peer education;Prevention;Sexual assault;Perpetrators
Categories:	Prevention
Year:	2004
Publisher:	CASA House, The Royal Women's Hospital
Notes:	This paper presents features considered as best practice in violence prevention work with men, using strategies that undermine the beliefs and values which support violence and challenging patriarchal power relations. It discusses primary prevention and how to engage boys and men in undermining sexual assault and domestic violence, by looking at educational strategies that are face-to-face: education programmes, workshops, peer education, and training. It finds that evaluations are often lacking, poor or discouraging, and raises the common weaknesses in these evaluations. It mentions a range of education programmes that have made positive changes to men’s attitudes, as well as behaviour, in the context of sexual assault. Four key features of effective prevention programmes include: comprehensiveness; intensity; relevance to the audience; and based on positive messages. Based on a literature review, it suggests that using men as facilitators and peer educators, as well as female facilitators and educators of both sexes, could be effective in engaging men to make the intervention relevant. Literature also indicates that by minimising defensiveness, and building on non-violent behaviours and values, intervention could also be effective. It also examines the pedagogies associated with different frameworks to help men change in the context of sexual violence, and offers brief comments on some of the key ones: encouraging victim empathy; teaching skills in non-violence and consent; enabling men as bystanders; and the social norms approach of undermining men’s conformity to sexist peer norms. It concludes by calling for 3 areas of improvements to the methodology of violence prevention work: using pre- and post-intervention assessments, and short- and long-term assessments to evaluate effectiveness; assessing both attitudes and behaviours based on additional assessments such as observation, information from partners; and developing both a more sophisticated way of examining and analysing change by looking for diversity and contradiction, in order to understand why some men re-offend and others may not, and also different strategies for ‘at risk’ men.
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/20864
Physical description:	12p
Appears in Collections:	Conference Papers

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