Ingoma Nshya Festival is a platform that aims to promote girls’ talents, give them the power to dream, act, and reinvent themselves on their own terms; and advocate for a culture that is women-friendly. The third edition took place in Huye, on 30 December 2023 at the Gymnasium of Huye Campus….
Join us for the upcoming MAP Webinar on Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) – Visualising Peace…
The Gira Ingoma – One Drum Per Girl project will hold the fourth edition of the Ingoma Nshya Festival on March 2024….
Join the MAP Online Side Event of the UNESCO World Conference on Culture & Arts Education “Artful Research: Informing National Curricula and Youth Peacebuilding Policies in Nepal, Rwanda, Kyrgyzstan and Indonesia”….
Welcome to Creating Dialogue to Inform Policy! Join us for an engaging online event where we will discuss the importance of open dialogue in shaping effective policies. Through interactive sessions and expert panel discussions, we aim to foster a collaborative environment where diverse perspectives can be shared and heard. Whether you are a policymaker, researcher, or…
The MAP ‘Gathering’ International Conference 2022 was hosted by the University of Lincoln from 8-11 November 2022, inviting MAP research partners, advisory board and study participants from Rwanda, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal and Indonesia….
On Thursday, 19 October, 2023, Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) will be hosting a free webinar on Zoom with the theme “Revitalising Tradition to Inform Curriculum.” The webinar will feature speakers who will present their research projects and reflections from three different initiatives in Indonesia, Ukraine, and Nepal. In the first session, we will present…
Inspiring insights and collaborative conversations on culture and arts education in Nepal On 21 September, Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) in Nepal, in collaboration with UNESCO Kathmandu, hosted a National Dialogue (Roundtable) on Culture and Arts Education. The UNESCO-MAP National Dialogue convened diverse voices and practices from across generations, bringing together young people and key…
MAP Impact Week, conducted online from July 17-20, 2023, featured 40 presenters from four MAP in-country teams sharing testimonies and art-based reflections on the impact of MAP at various levels….
The Gira Ingoma – One Drum Per Girl project held the second edition of the Ingoma Nshya Festival (INF 2) on 18 August 2023 at the University of Rwanda Huye Campus Stadium. After three months of weekly training in drumming, warrior dance, poetry, singing and juggling, 250 girls from 10 primary and secondary schools in…
UNESCO – MAP National Dialogue on Culture & Arts Education, Kathmandu (Nepal) 21 September 2023 – Exploring inter-generational dialogue through the arts | 9am – 4pm This National Dialogue (Roundtable) aims to create a platform to further the findings from MAP and the UNESCO Kathmandu office’s ambitions towards generating national evidence and actions in promoting…
By Vina Puspita (MAP Project Research Officer) From 17-20 July 2023, MAP hosted an Impact Week online event, bringing together MAP young people and stakeholders (youth facilitators, educators, cultural artists, social workers and policymakers) to share how MAP has impacted them and their communities. The MAP Impact Week was funded by the University of Lincoln…
My attendance at the online MAP Social Impact event on March 30, 2023, was a random encounter—a chance invite from a colleague who suggested I’d be interested in the project. I’m a lecturer at the UCL Knowledge Lab, UCL Institute of Education (IOE), London, and I lead an MA in Digital Media: Education. My research…
Central to the Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) research project, is the exploration of how cultural art forms can catalyse, re-frame and generate alternative ways of knowing. This post explores some of the ways in which this is occurring in the MAP project….
Find out how to contribute to the MAP Impact week 17-20 July!…
Can Cultural Art forms contribute towards social change? Thu, 15 Jun 2023 12:00 – 14:00 BST Sign up now This webinar will introduce three projects engaging directly with how cultural art forms can affect social change in young people and their wider communities. It will start by introducing the project led by Dr Simon Dancey…
The Foundation for Tolerance International (FTI) held a National communications event in Bishkek on 11 May to celebrate the use of Forum Theatre by young people from across the country, engaging over 90 participants in finding solutions to bullying within secondary schools. Representatives of the Ministry of internal Affairs, the Bishkek Mayors Office, independent experts,…
By Juhi Adhikari (19) Undergraduate Student at Tribhuvan University & MAP Nepal Youth Researcher Caption: MAP Nepal young researchers using participatory approaches (2022) Last year I was selected to join the International Institute on Peace Education (IIPE 2022) in Mexico. I was the youngest participant among 50, all working on peace education, either as an…
Vice Chancellor Prof. Neal Juster gave a welcome speech to over 40 delegates from Kyrgyzstan, Rwanda, Indonesia and Nepal alongside University of Lincoln colleagues amidst an exhibition of artworks from Phase One activities at the Lincoln Performing Arts Centre (LPAC) as part of the MAP ‘Gathering’ Conference conducted at the University of Lincoln from 8-11 November 2022….
Mobile Arts for Peace is a hub for resources and toolkits relating to arts-led peacebuilding initiatives. MAP’s website features recommendations for practitioners and researchers. The contents are the sole responsibility of The Office of the special representative of the secretary-general on violence against children “We are in the midst of a new era of child…
Mobile Arts for Peace is a hub for resources and toolkits for arts-led peacebuilding initiatives. MAP’s website features recommendations for practitioners and researchers. The contents are the sole responsibility of Save the Children. Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) is a key part of realising Save the Children’s theory of change and the common values and strategies…
Hosted from the 25th-30th November 2020, the Eighth Nepal Human Rights International Film Festival (HRIFF) celebrated the films and filmmakers that spotlight human rights causes and change people’s lives across the world. The Human Rights Film Center, a MAP partner in Nepal, has organised the HRIFF each year since 2010. Due to COVID-19, this is…
In Nepal, MAP Network Plus conducted a series of internal scoping visits between 25 March – 30 August 2020. The scoping visits’ activities included consultations with representatives of local government, teachers and school management, arts-led organizations and psychosocial organizations. These scoping visits involved mapping key local partners and schools, briefing research participants, establishing connections with…
Written by: Danae Chatzinikoli and Stefania Vindrola. Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) and Changing the Story (CTS) hosted a three-day conference from 5 – 7 August in collaboration with the Institute of Research and Dialogue for Peace (IRDP) in Rwanda. The conference focused on encouraging child and youth participation through arts-based methods to inform policy…
Written by Di Wu A 3-day event was hosted by the Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) and Changing the Story (CTS), in collaboration with the Institute of Research and Dialogue for Peace (IRDP) in Rwanda. The event aimed at using art-based approaches to engage young people, educators, cultural artists and policy makers to influence curriculum…