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Signs of Hope in Istanbul
As I was just in Istanbul for a few days of work – during an unusual March week of wet snow and pummeling winds – I wanted to tell you about the type of thing that should fill us all with a bit of...
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SlutWalk: Anger, Celebration & the Conversation We Need to Have
SlutWalks are spreading around the globe. So too is the controversy around the name and the image it’s creating. I was proud to be invited to address the inaugural SlutWalk in Toronto on April 3. The...
View ArticleMen must abandon notion they are violent by nature
In my darker moments I think it was inevitable. A young man, wired with hate and fear, pulled the trigger on 14 women’s lives. It was inevitable not because men are naturally violent. There was...
View ArticleBetter Fathering Will Help End Violence
This article first appeared in Finnish in Pelastakaa Lapset in the summer of 1998 Many countries in the western world seemed to have rediscovered fatherhood. We see fathers in movies and on television,...
View ArticleThe 7 P’s of Men’s Violence
For a moment my eyes turned away from the workshop participants and out through the windows of the small conference room and towards the Himalayas, north of Kathmandu. I was there, leading a workshop,...
View ArticleThe White Ribbon Campaign – Breaking Men’s Silence To End Men’s Violence –...
If it were between countries, we’d call it a war. If it were a disease, we’d call it an epidemic. If it were an oil spill, we’d call it a disaster. But it is happening to women, and it’s just an...
View ArticleBuilding a Movement of Men Working to End Violence Against Women
In Development 44.3: “Violence against Women and the Culture of Masculinity,” September 2001, pp. 9-14. Abstract: Michael Kaufman discusses the need to both address and involve men in ending violence...
View ArticleBetter Fathering Will Help End Violence
Many countries in the western world seemed to have rediscovered fatherhood. We see fathers in movies and on television, in advertisements and newspaper articles: men are cooing to babies, playing with...
View ArticleAn Act of Collective Love: Why Men Are Working to End Violence Against Women
From Canada to Korea, Brazil to China, Spain to South Africa, Pakistan to the United States, men are finally challenging a grave epidemic and a terrible form of terrorism. It is not a disease, nor what...
View ArticleLetter from India
There is a collection of brothels at the side of the highway an hour outside of Agra. Young women, some really just girls, stand at the roadside doorways, hoping their make up and smiles will bring in...
View ArticleLetter from Jerez de la Frontera, Spain
It’s a small city of 200,000, known as the home of sherry and a centre for flamenco. It’s also a wonderful example of how a city government can promote initiatives to transform the roles of men and...
View ArticleLetter from Istanbul, Turkey
This city rises up the hillsides on both sides of the Bosporus, the wide channel from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean, the divide between Europe and Asia. It is a city of domed mosques and pencil...
View ArticleLetter from Italy
In the end it was the boys. I was in Parma, the sixth of ten cities during my two weeks in Italy, itself the fourth and final country on this speaking trip. The events in Italy were starting to blur:...
View ArticleLetter from Riga, Latvia
There are many deep shadows along the cobbled streets of Riga. Shadows not only from the low sun on these short days of early winter, but the ones that cut much deeper from the years of Nazi and Soviet...
View ArticleLetter from Rio de Janeiro
I looked around the meeting hall, full of energy, full of some courageous women and men working in dangerous and challenging circumstances, and others, just like myself, who simply believed we could...
View ArticleDecember 6, 1989: The Day Canada Changed Forever
On December 6, 1989, Canada changed forever. Until that day, thousands of women in our country suffered violence with little recourse. A woman beaten was a woman ignored. A woman raped was a woman who...
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Amazing White Ribbon Campaigns in Australia, New Zealand, South Pacific … and...
First a quick story. In early December, I was getting on an Air New Zealand flight from Brisbane to Auckland and there was a group who looked like they were from some South Pacific island. Men and...
View ArticleIn Norway, Gender Equality DOES Extend to the Bedroom
From time to time, I invite colleagues to write a guest blog. Jorgen Lorentzen and Oystein Holter are both prominent in Norway as profeminist men working to promote gender equality and end all forms of...
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White Ribbon: Taking Action Around the World to End Violence Against Women,...
The first of a week-long series with White Ribbon stories & links from around the world… And check out The Guardian article by Gary Barker and me, “We Must Enlist Men and Boys in the Fight to End...
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White Ribbon: Taking Action Around the World to End Violence Against Women –...
The fifth of a series with White Ribbon stories & links from around the world. Scroll down or click for: 1: Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific, Part 2: The Americas, Part 3: Europe, Part...
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There’s no such thing as a ‘real man’
A version of this post originally appeared in The Telegraph (London, UK) on January 30, 2014 It’s been many years since I’ve heard anyone utter the words, “Act ladylike.” But it’s hard to go more than...
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Violence does not come naturally to men and boys
The vast majority of people who kill and commit acts of violence are men, but it would be wrong to assume that men are hardwired to harm others, says Gary Barker in this guest blog pegged to the UK...
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