The following excerpt is from an April 13, 2010 article published by The Independent. To read the article in its entirety, please click here.
NEIU Professor Brett Stockdill returned from his trip to Guatemala to speak with the university about their issue of domestic violence and what is being done currently to combat it on March 30.
Violence has been embedded into the country’s culture, going back to the civil war, said Stockdill. The past has played a big role in the current manifestation of violence throughout the country, primarily domestic abuse.
A group called Nuevos Horizontes, however, is attempting to give women a new start. They are an agency dedicated to sheltering, caring and supporting women who left their families due to violence. Nuevos Horizontes has seven different groups to the organization such as legal, community service, psychological care, medical care, shelter, childcare and job training.
Stockdill visited Guatemala to study, research and volunteer. He spent seven weeks with the group and during his time there, conducted several interviews with the workers there.
“The interview responses parallel some of the tensions within scholars and activism against violence,” said Stockdill . He acquired a diverse range of people for his interviews from ages 20 to 40…
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