Second Seminar on Masculinities celebrated
SANTO DOMINGO. With the aim of promoting alternative ways for men to live their masculinity in the Dominican context, the Center for Gender Studies of Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (CEG-INTEC) held its Second Seminar on Masculinities: Building New Meanings.
This activity was held in the La Fiesta room of the Hotel Barceló Santo Domingo (formerly Lina) and was aimed at educators, communicators, members of the Local Networks for a Life without Violence and NGOs that work to eradicate violence.
As facilitators of the seminar were Héctor Guillermo Núñez González, anthropologist specialized in gender and masculinities and Rutilio Delgado, Popular Educator, Secretary of the Fray Bartolomé de las Casas Center (CBC), in El Salvador. The CBC has published in coordination with the Ministry of Women and the Poveda Cultural Center of the Dominican Republic two manuals on Education and Masculinities and the guide on Masculinities of the Ministry of Women.
As a national counterpart, the seminar was attended by specialists from the Attorney General's Office, UN Women and CEG-INTEC.
Among the topics that will be discussed in the seminar include "New realities", "Challenges of men", "Strategies that help men to change sexist patterns" and "Men's Health", among others.
The program seeks to coordinate awareness-raising actions on masculinity, fatherhood and gender relations, involving decision-making bodies from the municipal and national role. Also explore the present ideal about masculinities and promote the formation of a small nucleus of men who reflect on alternative ways of assuming co-responsibility in care, affectivity, paternal role and love relationships not based on violence.
Suscribe academic collaboration agreement
CEG-INTEC and the Bartolomé de las Casas Center Foundation (CBC) agreed to carry out teaching, research, training, culture dissemination and service extension activities in all areas of reciprocal interest.
The agreement includes the extension to a new level of the training / gender training plan for teachers, the development of a national chapter on masculinity, and the creation of exchange spaces for students and the development of stays for appropriation of a methodology of psychotherapeutic intervention for aggressor and violent men.
Also participation in seminars, courses, workshops and other academic activities, research activities and joint publications, scholarship programs, internships for INTEC graduates and institutional visits for undergraduate, postgraduate and permanent education students.
The agreement was signed between the general coordinator of the Center Bartolome de las Casas - San Salvador, Larry Madrigal and the rector of INTEC, Rolando M. Guzmán during a meeting in the office of the latter.
The CBC is a non-profit Public utility Foundation that intends to promote integral human development, through its Masculinities programs, for its part also declared; promotes the defense of the rights of women and men to enable a full exercise of citizenship.