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• Five FGDs with a total of 29 community youth (18–29 years), 16 males and 13

females.

• One FGD held at a PMI Retreat with eight young men who were directly or
indirectly involved in violence.

• Four CRs held in separate sections of two communities, one urban and one

peri-urban, with a total of 69 persons—50 males and 19 females. The majority
of those attending (70.0 per cent) were estimated to be less than 30 years

old.

b. Elite semi-structured interviews with:
 A female senior high school Guidance Counsellor who has worked for 14

years in a Kingston inner city school (Vauxhall High);
 An experienced male youth worker who has worked with youth all over the

country and is now with the Peace Management Initiative (PMI) East,
supervising Violence Interrupters in St. Catherine and speaking to youth in

juvenile centres;
 An elderly and much loved female community advisor, known as “Mada,”

former primary school teacher for 37 years and now Justice of the Peace
(J.P.), Restorative Justice Facilitator and Violence Interrupter from Farm/

Effortville, one of the most volatile communities in Clarendon;
 The male director for the last five years of the Safety and Security Division in

the Ministry of Education (seconded from the Jamaica Constabulary Force
(JCF); and

 The male assistant commissioner of police at the head of the Community
Safety and Security Branch in the JCF (see Annex 9 for more details).

The student instrument was pre-tested, and the following changes were made:

1. The following were omitted.
a. A body-mapping exercise that had worked well with primary school children

and had been suggested by the CSJP. This exercise was found to be time-

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