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.

This quasi-experimental mixed method research attempts to investigate the effects of integrating peace education into the mathematics curriculum. A sample of 4 classes from 4 sample secondary schools in representative areas of Jamaica was selected. The treatment involved integrating peace education into a unit of mathematics lessons on statistics. The quantitative data were obtained through pre-test and post-test on mathematics. Qualitative data were obtained through interviews, student questionnaire surveys, classroom observation, and student and teachers’ reflections.