21 SHAT BHAI CHOMPA A sociodrama in an urban slum of Dhaka City Ashfique Rizwan, Rukhshan Fahmi, Tanzir Ahmed Tushar, Abdul Jabbar, Arifur Rahman Apu, A. S. M. Easir Arafat, Atonu Rabbani, and Malabika Sarker Sociodrama was originally developed by the founder of psychodrama and sociometry, J. L. Moreno in the USA during and after the Second World War (Kellerman, 2007; Fleury et al., 2015). It is a group process and action method that deals with intergroup relations and collective ideologies (Moreno, 1978). Moreover, it uses a process where social situations are enacted by the participants spontaneously upon mutual agreement, with a major focus on social or community issues (Moreno, 1978; Garcia and Sternberg, 2000). In this study, we applied sociodrama as an educational tool (Garcia and Sternberg, 2000) to the young men from the slum and analyzed the effect of a sociodrama named Shat Bhai Chompa (meaning seven brothers and (sister) Chompa), which was adapted from a folk tale from Bangladesh (Figure 21.1).The aim of this sociodrama was to create a positive attitude in young men towards women where the young men from an urban slum enacted the role of brother, sister, sister’s husband and father-in-law and improvised the drama based on their local context. The beginning of sociodrama and psychodrama in Bangladesh dates back to 2003 when Dr Herb Propper came to Bangladesh from the USA and introduced this method to different NGOs and university students. He envisioned that this could be an effective tool for creating social awareness among the large urban slum population (Propper, 2011). According to the census carried out by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) 2014, more than half a million people reside in the slum areas of Dhaka city.These slum dwellers lack many basic amenities, such as safe water and sanitation.Vulnerability to different health risks is common for slum resi- dents (Mannan, 2018). Poor, urban youth have a tendency to engage in early sex, early marriage, drugs, and violence (Dryfoos, 1991). Interventions carried out so far in the local slum context have focused on women; attention towards men is substantially limited (Hadi, 1997). In most societies throughout the world, men as a group enjoy social and institutional priv- ileges over women and have greater decision-making power within heterosexual relation- ships (Connel, 1987; Gilmore, 1990;Wingood and Di Clemente, 2000; Fleming et al., 2016). To be perceived as masculine and thus achieve the higher social status and power afforded to ‘real’ men, young men are pressured into and rewarded for adopting certain characteristics such as aggression, virility, risk-taking and violent behaviour (Connell, 1995; Courtenay, 2000). Gender norms and social expectations about the roles and behaviour of men and women influence men’s behaviour, particularly in intimate partnerships (Williams, 2003). 228