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Caribbean Journal of Education

INTERVIEW: The Change from Within Programme – Creating a Culture of Peace in Schools through Social Affirmation

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110-124
Publication Date: 
December 2019
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In Earl Lovelace’s celebrated novel, “The Dragon Can’t Dance”, the issue of male violence is explored. The novel reveals how a society’s failure to acknowledge others, to exclude some – in this case the disadvantaged folk (the working class), can lead to their feeling invisible and insignificant. As a result, the human need to be recognized and to be seen can drive the excluded to acts of violence as they assert their right to visibility. More recently, Fatima Bhutto’s best seller, “The Runaways”, explores a similar situation. In this novel, Bhutto shows how the society’s excluded become the radicalized youth involved in global violent movements such as ISIS. An understanding of these “truths”, of the connection between violence and disrespect, may be seen to underpin the Change from Within (CFW) programme’s approach to school violence. 

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