MConnecting Inf Peaascceu Tlianlkitsi:e s aonrdm (aNl oannd)V Fioolremnacle - Exploring Determinants of (Non)Violence in the Bangsamoro

Connecting InMfaosrmcualiln aitnieds F aonrdm (aNl oPne)aVcieo lTeanlckes 11 The series is brief is based on a larger research project on masculinities, violence, and peacebuilding conducted in 2022 and 2023 by GIWPS and local partners in Aceh and Maluku in Indonesia and the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) in the Philippines.4 A survey was administered to approximately 2,00. [...] Based on our findings, we offer policy recommendations to the BARMM, the government of the Philippines, and other national governments; to the designers of gender-focused programming, and to civil society actors. [...] As analyzed in more detail in Beyond Engaging Men, ongoing forms of organized violence in the BARMM can help explain why we find relatively higher rates Our findings show that violence is not a of support for using violence to universal feature of ideal manhood and defend one’s community, family, that support for violence appears to be and reputation among both men and women there. [...] The proliferation of armed groups and threats of rido, combined with easy access to guns and made-to-order weapons (especially in the SPMS box), increase insecurity and the militarization of everyday life. [...] In collaboration with local leaders, CSOs should create participatory programs that integrate a masculinities lens, enabling men and women to speak about the role of violence in expectations for being a man and violence in their communities more broadly and to jointly author plans to address this violence.