Strasbourg, 5 April 2000            EG/SEM/VIO (99) 21
Palais de l’Europe  - Strasbourg  - 7-8 October 1999

SEMINAR

MEN AND VIOLENCE
AGAINST WOMEN

PROCEEDINGS

Division Equality between Women and Men
Directorate General of Human Rights
Council of Europe
67075 Strasbourg Cedex

Tel: 00 33 3 88 41 28 36    Fax: 00 33 3 90 21 49 18

[1]              Albania, Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, San Marino, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, "The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia", Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom

Contents
Introduction

Opening address by Mr Pierre-Henri IMBERT, Director of Human Rights

Introduction by Ms Caroline MECHIN (France), Chair of the Steering Committee for Equality between Women and Men (CDEG)

“METHODOLOGICAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES”
Comparing methodologies used to study violence against women
by Ms Sylvia WALBY, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Representations of intimate male violence in the United States and Poland
by Ms Renate, University of Maine, USA and
Ms Anna KWIATKOWSKA, University of Bialystok, Poland
Gendering research on men’s violence to known women
by Ms Jalna HANMER, Leeds Metropolitan University, United Kingdom and Mr Jeff HEARN, Tampere University, Finland and Manchester University, United Kingdom

“VIOLENCE IN THE FORMATION OF GENDERED MALE IDENTITIES”
>>  Explaining the inclination to use violence
by Ms Carol HAGEMANN-WHITE and Ms Christiane MICUS, University of Osnabrück, Germany
>>  Explanations for male violence, psychoanalysis, feminist theory and the new men’s movement
by Ms Ursula MÜLLER, University of Bielefeld, Germany
>>  Growing up in the proximity of violence: Teenagers’ stories of violence in the home
by Ms Katarina WEINEHALL, University of Umeå, Sweden
>>  Teenage boys as violent actors in today’s Romanian communities
by Ms Anca DUMITRESCU and Ms Elena PENTELEICIUC, University of Bucharest, Romania
>>  Socio-Economic Roots for Cases of Male Violence against Women in Russia
by Ms Vera GRACHEVA, Russian Federation

“TRANSITIONS IN ADULTHOOD AND MEN’S VIOLENCE”
>>  The contribution of the military and military discourse to the construction of masculinity in society
by Ms Uta KLEIN, University of Münster, Germany
>>  Men’s violence against women and children in situations of armed conflict
by Ms Dubrovka KOCIJAN HERCIGONJA, Zagreb, Croatia
>>  The approach of the World Health Organisation Regional Office for Europe to the issue of gender-based violence (abstract) by Ms Kirsten Staehr JOHANSEN, WHO-EURO, Denmark
>>  Older men and elder abuse
by Ms Bridget PENHALE, University of Hull, United Kingdom

“CROSS-CUTTING THEMES: MEDIA DEBATES, COSTS OF VIOLENCE, IMPLEMENTATION”
>>  Male violence: the economic costs
by Mr Alberto GODENZI and Ms Carrie YODANIS, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
>>  But where are the men? Central State public policies to combat violence against women in post-authoritarian Spain (1975-1999) by Ms Celia VALIENTE, University of Madrid, Spain
>>  Police methods to counteract violence against women
by Ms Helene GÖRTZEN, Stockholm County Police Authority, Sweden
>>  Assumptions and implications: Notes on Greenlander men “in transition”
by Mr Bo WAGNER SØRENSEN, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
>>  Conclusions of the Seminar presented by the General Rapporteur
Ms Renate KLEIN, University of Maine, USA

Recommendations of the Seminar
Appendix I:      Programme
Appendix II:   List of participants