Globally, 90% of firearms homicides are committed by men, and men also make up the vast majority of the victims. The highest rates of homicide are mainly found in cities in the Americas, including the Caribbean, and southern Africa., mainly in cities. “Men killing men” disproportionately affects young people in the Global South who live in precarious economic circumstances. This has been the consistent demographic of lethal armed violence for decades.
Violence
How can we engage male students and staff on campus in violence prevention?
I want you to think for a moment about the young men you see every day on your campus. The young men in your classrooms, in the cafetaria, in the college residences, and so on.
Citation: Flood, M. (2025). Online violence prevention education for students. Queensland University of Technology, unpublished.
Note that these notes also may be downloaded in PDF here.
What actions are needed to drive the engagement of men and boys in combating online gender-based violence? In these notes prepared for a UN Women event in Seoul, Korea, Professor Flood offers recommendations for programming and research to drive the engagement of men and boys in reducing and preventing online gender-based violence
Programming:
Zero Tolerance and White Ribbon Scotland have published findings from their research on how to frame masculinity, gender equality, and men’s violence against women to change men’s thinking and encourage action.
Ending gender-based violence requires preventing it occurring in the first place.
Importantly, this requires work with men and boys, including to challenge the stereotypes and cultures that underpin the drivers of gender-based violence.
This brief is intended to outline policy, regulatory and legislative opportunities for promoting more positive and expansive forms of masculinity and working with men and boys to prevent gender-based violence.
Opportunities outlined in this brief include:
The End Violence Against Women Coalition has published a report setting out the evidence base for how best to engage men and boys in ending violence against women and girls.
The following describes initiatives and strategies that can be adopted by Government that will build capacity in Australia to effectively engage men and boys in violence prevention. Note that these initiatives are focused on primary prevention rather than initiatives aimed at men and boys at risk of using violence (secondary prevention / intervention) or already using violence (tertiary prevention / intervention).
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This report presents invaluable guidance in working with men and boys to end men's violence against women and build gender equality, organised in terms of five thematic priorities: