ABSTRACT
This chapter first provides a discussion on key strategies used by the international development community to involve men in work on violence against women, as well as the benefits and disadvantages of each strategy. Within the context of conflict and post-conflict settings, research has shown that men’s roles and experiences are more complex than the stereotypical assumption that all men can be perpetrators of violence (especially sexual and gender-based). The second half of the chapter shares insights into how fieldwork research in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Timor Leste was planned, as well as how my identity as a Chinese-Australian woman generated different responses from male interview participants.
