Piloting an Educational Response to Violence in Uganda: Prospects for a New Curriculum

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dc.contributor.authorMutto, Milton
dc.contributor.authorKahn, Kathleen
dc.contributor.authorLett, Ronald
dc.contributor.authorLawoko, Stephen
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-25T13:57:34Z
dc.date.available2022-05-25T13:57:34Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.description.abstractThis pilot study assessed Mato-Oput5 (hereafter the curriculum), a new peace education curriculum, for indications of beneficial efficacy, specifically the capacity to reduce negative attitudes towards conflict and violence, and injury and violence rates. A cluster randomised control design was used. Three of the six purposively selected schools were exposed to the curriculum. Mato-Oput5 is a value-based, formalised curriculum taught by specifically trained teachers. Its learning areas include conflict, conscience, violence, non-violence, impulse control, anger management, kindness, forgiveness, empathy and reconciliation. The results showed the baseline and post-intervention bio-demographic characteristics of the treatment arms to be comparable, thus suggesting baseline group equivalence and randomisation success. The follow-up loss was 9%. The mean pre- and post-intervention intentional incident rates of the intervention and control groups were 270/1000 and 370/1000, and 190/1000 and 350/1000, respectively: these differences were not significant. The intervention had no effect on post-intervention intentional incident rates. There were indications of beneficial efficacy in the curriculum, especially its ability to cause attitude shifts in support of non-violence. Statistically significant behavioural effects were not detected although a downward rate trend was seen in the intervention group.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMutto, M., Kahn, K., Lett, R., & Lawoko, S. (2009). Piloting an educational response to violence in Uganda: Prospects for a new curriculum. African Safety Promotion: A Journal of Injury and Violence Prevention , 7 (2).en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.ajol.info/index.php/asp/article/view/54594
dc.identifier.urihttps://nru.uncst.go.ug/handle/123456789/3340
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherA Journal of Injury and Violence Preventionen_US
dc.subjectPeace educationen_US
dc.subjectCurriculumen_US
dc.subjectMato-Oputen_US
dc.subjectConflict resolutionen_US
dc.subjectViolence preventionen_US
dc.titlePiloting an Educational Response to Violence in Uganda: Prospects for a New Curriculumen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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