About US
Alberta Men’s Network is a community committed to nonviolence and working across the gender spectrum to create healthy families and communities. We support healthy masculinities by identifying and working within a human rights, feminist, anti-colonial, and antiracist framework. AMN works to promote healthy and positive masculinities by recognizing and working to end all forms of oppression, including patriarchy and gender inequity, colonization, racism, white privilege, economic inequality, gender and sexual stigma, ableism, and other forms of dehumanization.
Current Projects
We are currently recruiting fathers for below projects:
Fathers in Focus
Healing Through Fatherhood
To learn more,
click on Current projects
Transforming Masculinities Project
Transforming Masculinities is an international community-based research project led by a team of collaborators in the Caribbean, Canada, Pakistan, and Nepal. Partner organizations: UCalgary Social Work, University of Peshawar, The University of the West Indies, Haashar Association, University of the Fraser Valley, Alberta Network of Immigrant Women, CariMan, Alberta Men's Network, and Southwestern Centre for Research and PhD Studies. This research seeks to understand the factors that influence men’s decisions to become involved in intimate partner violence (IPV) prevention and gender equity initiatives, and the transformative impacts of this involvement.
Our international collaboration offers a unique opportunity to create a community of practice (CoP) that includes an interdisciplinary group of academics, practitioners, community advocates, partners, and activists. The project includes a four-part, online community learning series, Transforming Masculinities: Men in Gender Justice, where teams from each represented country present on gender justice work occurring within their specific geographic and socio-cultural contexts. Attendees of these online events will offer their feedback through participation in a survey, allowing the CoP to be expanded though the questions, input and participation of stakeholders from around the world.
Organizing team:
Dr. Liza Lorenzetti, Dr. Aamir Jamal, Pam Beebe, Dr. Christine Walsh, Kamal Sehgal, Jeff Halvorsen, Janelle Lee Pong, Sarah Thomas, & Abbas Mancey; Dr. Gabrielle Hosein, Dr. Peter Weller, & Kevin Liverpool; Dr. Rita Dhungel; Dr. Muhammad Ibrar, Asif Khan, Ahmad Waqar, Anees Khan, Dr. Bidur Dhungel, and Namrata Gautam.
Featured News
The Manbox Art Project has been highlighted by our partners at the University of Calgary in their alumni magazine, see the video and read the full story below:
Treaty 7 Land Acknowledgement
Alberta Men’s Network acknowledges that we organize, work, live and build community on the traditional homelands of the Blackfoot Confederacy: the Siksika, Kainai and Piikani; their Treaty 7 cosignatories: the Tsuut’ina and Îyâxe Nakoda Nations; the Métis (MNA Region 3) and those who call Calgary (Mohkinstsis) home. We recognize, as settlers and guests, that we are on Indigenous homelands and express our gratitude and appreciation for the Indigenous people who live here and have shared their knowledge. We are committed to taking action on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s 94 Calls to Action (2015) and the Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls: Reclaiming Power and Place (2019).