How can we turn men and boys into violence prevention allies? Lessons from Sweden’s 10-year strategy

As EU Member States put the Directive on Violence Against Women into practice, they are asked to do something many have never done before: build coordinated, multi-layered prevention strategies that tackle violence before it reaches the criminal justice system. For Peter Söderström, violence-prevention expert at the Swedish Gender Equality Agency, that means starting from an uncomfortable fact. “The vast majority of violence is perpetrated by us men. It’s all forms of violence: men’s violence against women and children, men’s violence against other men, and also men’s violence against...