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This article sets out some key methodological principles in developing a European research framework for studying men's violences. This involves attention to gendered analysis and gendered power relations; gender collaboration; interconnections between social arenas; ethical and political sensitivities; examining and problematising roots and explanations of men's violences; building on and reviewing the contribution of Critical Studies on Men; use ofmultiple methods, methodologies and epistemological frames; and, addressing intersections of multiple dimensions of power and disadvantage. Together, these principles and perspectives assist in developing a comparative and transnational orientation, by attending to cultural variations, convergences and divergences in time and space, and intersecting forms of power relations in the study ofmen's violences in a European context.

On January 29, 2021, in Rochester, New York, three adult police officers handcuffed and pepper-sprayed a 9-year-old Black girl before forcing her into a police car. [2] As the girl refused to get into the car, resisting and screaming for her father, one of the police officers was caught on body camera chastising her, "You're acting like a child." The girl immediately responded, "I am a child!" Police were dispatched to a domestic dispute before they encountered the girl. Her pepper spraying and being forced into the police car follows a series of more tragic cases in the United States, including that of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was shot and killed by the police in Cleveland for playing with a toy gun, and 17-year-old-Trayvon Martin, who was simply walking in a Florida neighborhood when he was violently assaulted and killed by a community watchman. Like these cases, the incident in Rochester garnered condemnation against the police officers. Black Lives Matter protests denouncing systemic police violence quickly erupted in the aftermath of the video releases, and the three police officers involved have been suspended.

"The Trouble with the Congo suggests a new explanation for international peacebuilding failures in civil wars. Drawing from more than 330 interviews and a year and a half of field research, it develops a case study of the international intervention during the Democratic Republic of the Congo's unsuccessful transition from war to peace and democracy (2003-2006). Grassroots rivalries over land, resources, and political power motivated widespread violence. However, a dominant peacebuilding culture shaped the intervention strategy in a way that precluded action on local conflicts, ultimately dooming the international efforts to end the deadliest conflict since World War II. Most international actors interpreted continued fighting as the consequence of national and regional tensions alone. UN staff and diplomats viewed intervention at the macro levels as their only legitimate responsibility. The dominant culture constructed local peacebuilding as such an unimportant, unfamiliar, and unmanageable task that neither shocking events nor resistance from select individuals could convince international actors to reevaluate their understanding of violence and intervention"--

Examines crime and war not only in the conventional but also the unconventional sense of these words. In so doing, it brings together three related areas of scholarly inquiry: crime, political violence, and international law. Crime transcends nation-state boundaries in three major forms -- as transfer and exchange within and between criminal networks, as intentional lawbreaking by licit commercial enterprises, and as breaches of international obligation by governments and government agents. These illicit practices can usefully be categorized as market crimes committed for purely economic ends, as moral crimes that infringe social norms including the norms that govern political legitimacy, and as international crimes defined substantively by international laws. Transnational crime, the cross-border crimes of commoners, and international crime, the crimes of states, are treated by international law experts as distinct spheres of inquiry and application. Yet both spheres are inextricably connected at the systemic level of international relations.

The Colombian government and some nongovernmental organizations (NGO) are interested in helping women who have been victims of forced displacement, by the violence in Colombia, to develop entrepreneurial activities that will help them to improve family income and in that way reinsert them in the social tissue. These institutions were not ready to provide the required training and for that reason they contacted the Centre for Entrepreneurship Development at Universidad Icesi to design and implement a programme specifically oriented to the women. This article describes the process, the variables, the difficulties, the activities, the learned lessons and some results when a specific program for Afro-Colombian women was implemented. The experience confirms Gibb's idea that there areno unique solutions in entrepreneurship education and that every programme designers have to carefully consider the characteristics of the population to be covered and the conditions of the environment. Keywords: entrepreneurship, NGO, social tissue, institutions and difficulties

The Colombian government and some nongovernmental organizations (NGO) are interested in helping women who have been victims of forced displacement, by the violence in Colombia, to develop entrepreneurial activities that will help them to improve family income and in that way reinsert them in the social tissue. These institutions were not ready to provide the required training and for that reason they contacted the Centre for Entrepreneurship Development at Universidad Icesi to design and implement a programme specifically oriented to the women. This article describes the process, the variables, the difficulties, the activities, the learned lessons and some results when a specific program for Afro-Colombian women was implemented. The experience confirms Gibb's idea that there areno unique solutions in entrepreneurship education and that every programme designers have to carefully consider the characteristics of the population to be covered and the conditions of the environment. Keywords: entrepreneurship, NGO, social tissue, institutions and difficulties

Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG) is endemic in South Sudan. Approaches to end VAWG are barely making a dent in prevalence figures. Global evidence tells us that ending VAWG in conflict-ridden contexts is challenging on many levels. Our research points to the need for social and gender norm change approaches to be better contextualised within the political economy and through applying a nuanced critique of the role of culture in normalising many forms of VAWG. In addition, greater involvement of young people is critical as a behavioural tipping point is beginning to emerge in this group. At national level, a lack of political commitment emerges as a key challenge in ending VAWG. Drawing on the findings from 20 qualitative interviews with national civil society organisation (CSO) and non-governmental organisation's (NGO) stakeholders, the article argues that current approaches to ending VAWG in South Sudan (and arguably elsewhere) must be reframed along a continuum of change. Activities must be supported at all levels from national through to the grassroots and be founded in a complex picture of the values and beliefs that sustain VAWG.