Men Stopping Violence Content Topic Results

This report describes the processes and lessons learned from the TIMM initiative to help state coalitions working to end domestic violence create or improve programs that educate and engage men in prevention and intervention.

Men Stopping Violence (MSV), a metro Atlanta-based organization that works to end male violence against women, uses an ecological, community-based accountability model as the foundation of its analysis of the problem of male violence against women and of its work with individuals and in communities.

The goal was of this evaluation was to "test our theory that battering is a logical outgrowth of social norms that promote contempt for women; that the true function of a BIP is to influence those norms in a way that promotes greater safety and justice for battered women; and that its success is appropriately measured in those terms." Includes a description of goals and objectives, activities and outcomes, outcome measurements, key findings, and lessons learned.

How a community understands the source of battering in many ways determines the type of program it will support. This article includes common explanations and a discussion of sexism as the root of the problem.

This article describes similarities and differences between addiction and battering, explores the relationship between the two, and discusses MSV's approach to addressing these co-occurring issues with batterers who abuse substances.

This commentary offers one woman’s response to men in the movement to end domestic violence.

This document presents and discusses basic organizing principles for engaging men in ending violence against women. These principles include have been developed, reviewed and refined over two decades and include keeping women’s voices and experiences central to the work, exploring racial justice, intersectionality of violence, and eliminating patriarchy.