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Home: K to 12: Respect Protect Connect Program: Information for educators

This is an extract from the Respect Protect Connect workshop manual, by Timothy O'Leary and Russell Pratt.

Within Australian society, there is concern at the level of violence reported in our newspapers and on our radios and televisions. Most of us would have, at some time or other, seen messages condemning violence as unacceptable.

The majority of perpetrators of violence are men. It is, therefore, men, whether violent or not, who are most confronted by society's changing attitudes towards violence as an expression of masculinity. Helping men, both young and old, to redefine masculinity in terms of non violent, non-aggressive behaviours is both challenging and essential.

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