Paul Kivel

Paul Kivel is an American writer, educator, and activist. Kivel co-founded the Oakland Men's Project, a community education center focused on preventing male violence, and has been called "an innovative leader in violence prevention." For most of his career, Kivel has focused on writing, education programs, and training programs designed to prevent male violence and youth violence, combat discrimination, and promote social justice. He has also founded the Challenging Christian Hegemony Project, which aims to combat the Christian values and belief which Kivel claims "dominate all aspects of our society through the social, political, economic, and cultural power they wield."

Selected works

• Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice (New Society Publishers, 2002)

• Men's Work: How to Stop the Violence That Tears Our Lives Apart (Hazelden Publishing, 2010)

• Making the Peace: A 15-session Violence Prevention Curriculum for Young People (With Allan Creighton, Oakland Men's Project, 1997)

• You Call this a Democracy?: Who Benefits, who Pays and who Really Decides? (Apex Press, 2004)

• Men's Work: Facilitator's Guide, (Hazelden Educational Materials, 1993)

External links

• Challenging Christian Hegemony (homepage)
• Celebrating the Oakland Men's Project (California Coalition Against [...] Assault)
• Biography of Kivil (New Society Publishers)