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The Gender and Development Programme of the CARICOM Secretariat today headed a workshop with an interesting concept. It's called Rethinking Masculinity, Understanding Gender Equality As A Means of Ending Violence in Schools, and by extension the community. 

The workshop comes out of a study which the CARICOM Secretariat commissioned in 2012 in Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago.  It surveyed 1000 students aged 15-21, as well as their parents and teachers to find out what's behind male pattern violence which is a huge social problem in the region.  

Workshops are benign held in five countries and Belize had its turn today. We learned more from coordinator and CARICOM staffer Ann Marie Williams:

CARICOM will now establish a virtual network for shared collaboration among participants, of interventions being used to create a culture of peace in schools and community thereby reducing gender based violence.