Facing Patriarchy: From a Violent Gender Order to a Culture of Peace

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Notes

1 Socio-ecological models come in different forms but are essentially similar in placing individual human beings as the centre of an analysis, surrounded by layers of context. Sometimes suggestively referred to as ‘the onion model’, this usually presents the individual at the centre (at the micro-level), then enveloped by a family or intimate relationships, in turn surrounded by ‘communities’, sometimes also surrounded by ‘social norms’, but then in turn usually enveloped by institutions (providing goods and services), all of which is set within a wider (macro-level) context of political systems and laws, etc. In gender and development, this then lends itself well to thinking of ‘levels of strategies’ ranging across: individual education/support, relational work, community work/collective organising, public awareness work, institutional strengthening/reform, and political strategies.