http://thecommongroundblog.com/2011/07/05/scfg-launches-vrai-djo-campaign-to-combat-gender-based-violence-in-drc/ Conflict transformation, one story at a time Fri, 16 Dec 2011 23:17:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://thecommongroundblog.com/2011/07/05/scfg-launches-vrai-djo-campaign-to-combat-gender-based-violence-in-drc/#comment-5653 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:17:34 +0000 http://thecommongroundblog.com/?p=5900#comment-5653 [...] Our Vrai Djo campaign shows positive examples of male behavior and depicts them as having a role to play in preventing violence. As Lena told MCSR, “The Vrai Djo video spots were also not about showing a man doing something wrong. Instead, we showed a man in a series of situations resembling common interactions with women, and doing the right thing, doing it naturally, doing it confidently, doing it strongly.” [...]

]]> http://thecommongroundblog.com/2011/07/05/scfg-launches-vrai-djo-campaign-to-combat-gender-based-violence-in-drc/#comment-5331 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:17:54 +0000 http://thecommongroundblog.com/?p=5900#comment-5331 [...] In DRC we’ve started a unique campaign that engages men as active participants in increasing respect of women and models positive male behavior. Quite often, men’s behavior and attitudes harm and undermine women, but by demonizing men or not speaking to them directly, we lose the chance to transform that behavior. The campaign is “Est-il un vrai djo?” (Is he a real man?)  and we’ve spoken of the work further in a recent article for Huffington Post: Against the odds, we at SFCG have been reaching out to men in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the subject of a recent UN report on mass rape and human rights violations, running retraining programs for the Congolese army and airing short films aimed at changing attitudes toward women and transforming expectations for male behavior. This campaign, the first of its kind, asks viewers to think critically about traditional attitudes toward women showing various scenarios in daily life and asking in Lingala, “Vrai djo?” “Is this a real man?” [...]

]]> http://thecommongroundblog.com/2011/07/05/scfg-launches-vrai-djo-campaign-to-combat-gender-based-violence-in-drc/#comment-5247 Thu, 07 Jul 2011 00:08:56 +0000 http://thecommongroundblog.com/?p=5900#comment-5247 [...] coauthor recently sent me these videos from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, featuring a famous Congolese rapper in various roles [...]

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