 My name is Ruth Kisam. I am the senior advisor for the US Institute of Peace in Papua New Guinea. My name is Chua Betinig, and I am the country program manager for USIP in Papua New Guinea. Most of the services, especially in Papua New Guinea, when it's provided, it's focused on the survivors of violence and less on the perpetrators of violence. The male behavior change program takes a different approach, looking at the other side of the coin, and that is to work with the perpetrators, the male, and help them to realize the negative attitude and behaviors that they have towards women, and make adjustment changes so they can create equal space for women to participate with them in everything that they do in life. I think one of the things that a lot of people need to realize about Papua New Guinea is that we've got both patriarchal as well as matrilineal cultures that we have where in matrilineal society women own land. In the patriarchal society it's the men, but it's usually the men, even in those matrilineal society it's the men that make the decision, and that has been a very contentious point for us as women, emerging women leaders to work within that space because a lot of voices have been suppressed, and I think that's what Suaba is facing now, where how can she bring those voices, how can she bring men into the conversation, so they are able to realize that they really need to have the voices of women in the tables that they sit so that they can make decisions that are more harmonious to good community living. I've trained already 40 youths. What I've noticed, the positive impact that I've noticed from this training is just right before the training ended, a handful of men, boys, young men, in the training came out and said oh we have some special skills here. One said I have been training mechanic and I can help other boys in the training who wants to learn about fixing vehicles. The other one said oh I have the skill of bricklaying and if any boys here wants to go out and learn how to make brick walls I can take you through. His team went out, collected stones from the river bank, nearby river bank, they brought them in and they built a stone wall for a church in their community. When we look at this group of people, all we see is negative, we see them as criminals, we see them as troublemakers, drug addicts, homebrew addicts, we have all sorts of negative labels on them but after taking them through the training they came out with almost all the positive things that they have in life that they want to contribute to the community. Getting men to own this subject is really important because that goes to the heart of what needs to be sustainable. And when a man talks, everyone in the community listens and for us it's not about who we get up there to talk, it's how can the message be driven to people so that everyone comes together and the end result is taken. And that's why getting Zuhabe to actually work with young men that have been involved in conflict, that have been involved with criminal activities but really want that opportunity to change. And that's the thing that she is giving them the chance and if we get that much men in, the replicating effect that it's going to have on other communities is going to be powerful.