"Men Enough!"

A conference to explore working with men to end violence against women

The conference took place on Friday 11th May 2007 at Glasgow City Chambers.

Many who work both with men who are violent and with their partners and children agree that it is essential to engage with men at different stages in their lives in order to prevent them from going on to terrorise others and in the process ruin their own lives.

The aim of the confernece was to bring people together to develop strategies to engage with men in our communities.  It was aimed at professionals, politicians, activists and those who want to ensure the safety of women and children and work towards ending the violence that men can do, but who agree that this cannot be achieved by ignoring men or refusing to engage with them.

You can download the programme and presentations from the day through the links below:

• Download programme
• Violence and Society: making sense of madness and badness
• Why we need to engage directly with men
• Lessons learned: the experience of Domestic Violence Intervention Project in London

In the afternoon there was an interactive session which asked the participants the following questions.  The answers are divided up into men and women's responses (click on the links below to view the responses):

• How can men in the community engage with each other to challenge violence against women?
• How do men become part of the solution?
• What resources do I need?
• What can I do?
• What am I doing now?
• What do I still need to do?
• What campaigns would I support?
• What needs to change?
• What have I learned?
• How could men and women work together more effectively?
• Graffiti Wall

Participants were asked to complete an evaluation form at the end of the day.  You can download a copy of the report below:

• Evaluation Report

If you would like further information about this event please email: info@mhfs.org.uk