Racism, Class and Masculinity:

The Global Dimensions of 
Gender-Based Violence

CSW 2001 Panel
Sponsored by
INSTRAW & UNICEF  

Friday, 9 March, 11am to 1pm

UN Dag Hammarskjold Auditorium

INSTRAW and UNICEF are hosting a panel to discuss the interface between racism, class and men’s violence against women. The panelists will address issues such as how structural pressures and cultural norms affect men’s socialization into violence, how these pressures and norms vary across groups, time and place, and what recommendations are there for combating these processes.

Opening Statement:  Eleni Stamiris, Director-INSTRAW

Film Screening – “I Am A Man: Black Masculinity in America” by Byron Hurt
 We will screen ten minutes of highlights to open the event and Mr. Hurt will be available for questions and answers at the panel. 

Panelists:
Ruth Hayward: Senior Advisor, Ending Violence Against Women- UNICEF
Matthew Gutmann: Professor of the Social Sciences – International Affairs at Brown University.
Alan Greig: Author, activist and independent consultant working on issues of men, masculinity and gender equality.
Diana Mahabir Wyatt: Chair of the Trinidad Tobago Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
Follow-up Bulletin Board Discussion
INSTRAW will host a bulletin board discussion through GAINS on the topics discussed in this panel.

For more information: www.un-instraw.org/mens-roles.html

Background of Speakers for ‘Racism, Class and Masculinities: The Global Dimension of Gender Based Violence’.

Byron Hurt,
Byron Hurt is the former quarterback of the Northeastern University football team and is  the producer of the award-winning documentary film, I Am A Man: Black Masculinity in America. I Am A Man features the voices of  black men from various socio-economic backgrounds, along with interviews with some of Black America’s most celebrated progressive academics, social critics and authors.  The result is an engaging, candid dialogue on black masculine identity in contemporary U.S. society.

Ruth Hayward,
author of  the recent book Breaking the Earthenware Jar – Lessons form South Asia to End Violence against Women and Girls.  Ruth Hayward will discuss her experience in bringing men together who have worked towards ending male violence in the South Asia region.

Matthew Gutmann,
Anthropologist and author of numerous publications on identity and masculinities in Latin America, including the widely acclaimed The Meanings of Being Macho: Being a Man in Mexico City.   Working with incorporating men into gender and development. Mr. Gutmann will discuss the part played by culture in gender based violence in Latin America, as well as pointing out how this type of violence includes both violence by men against women and against other men.

Alan Greig
Mr. Grieg is an independent consultant, working at the intersections of HIV prevention, harm reduction and gender equality.  For the past 10 years, Alan has worked with non governmental and community-based organizations in countries of the economic North and South to locate HIV prevention and harm reduction programs within a broader agenda of social justice.  As a white, straight, northern European middle class male, Alan is confronted with the tensions between privilege and justice, identity and community, and the margin and the center.  He draws inspiration from the writings of Gilles Deleuze, Gayatri Spivak and Adam Phillips, and from the struggle against all those who seek "to again take the world from us."

Diana Mahabir Wyatt,
Has spent 25 years working in the field of domestic violence through counseling, supporting victims, providing shelter and advocacy. Furthermore she worked for 11 years in the Trinidadian senate making laws to protect women and children and to counter-act institutional social violence in other ways. Diana Mahibir Wyatt is currently the chair of the Tirinidad Tobago Coalition Against Domestic Violence. She will bring in her extensive experience in this field, concentrating on the Caribbean culture.