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| DR.
HORACE LEVY |
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| Horace
Levy |
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Since
1999, Horace Levy has been teaching third-level students Community
Organization and Social Planning/Project Design in the Department
of Sociology, Psychology and Social Work, his second stint at the
University of the West Indies. Between 2002 and the present, he has
also been an active member of the Peace Management Initiative (PMI)
established by the Ministry of National Security to defuse community
violence.
The PMI has carried out its mandate through mediation, counselling
and development in some 60 communities or community segments in 15
areas of the Kingston Metropolitan Region and adjoining sections of
St Catherine. Previously Mr. Levy was for many years the Director
of the Social Action Centre, an NGO with a pedigree stretching back
through the sugar worker cooperatives to the housing cooperatives
and the credit unions initiated by the Jesuits, John Peter Sullivan
and Gerard McLaughlin.
For a decade he also chaired the Board of S-Corner Clinic, an NGO
established three years earlier on St Joseph Road, off the Waltham
Park Road, in Bennett Land, a section of Whitfield Town, and in 1995
led a joint project of the University of the West Indies and the World
Bank to study poverty and violence in five under-served communities
of Kingston, Spanish Town and Montego Bay. The results of this study
have been published under the title They Cry ‘Respect’:
Urban Violence and Poverty in Jamaica. He has published in the Caribbean
Journal of Social Work. |
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