He co-founded the White Ribbon Campaign in 1991, the largest network of men working to ending violence against women worldwide.
[1] He is a senior fellow of Instituto Promundo, an NGO based in Rio de Janeiro and Washington, D.C.[2] Michael Kaufman was born in Cleveland, Ohio.
Michael Kaufman has worked as a lecturer and advisor to international NGOs, governments, universities and colleges, trade unions, and corporations.
He has worked extensively with the United Nations, including with UNESCO, UNICEF, UN Women, UNDP, UNFPA, and IFAD.
[9] Michael Kaufman's widely published 1987 article, “The Construction of Masculinity and the Triad of Men’s Violence”[10] postulated that our dominant forms of masculinity were constructed through ongoing, socially-sanctioned, and mutually reinforcing forms of violence: against women, against other men, and internalized against oneself.