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June 2023 Newsletter
Featuring an Introduction to MAP and our new projects and a spotlight article on Arts-based methods in action…
Artistic workshops for girls in Huye and Gisagara Districts in Rwanda
Gira Ingoma – One Drum Per Girl is now offering artistic workshops for girls on Saturdays and Sundays, in ten primary and secondary schools in Huye and Gisagara Districts in Rwanda. On 6th May 2023, Ingoma Nshya Festival was launched at Huye Campus Stadium where 250 girls performed for parents, school leaders and representatives from…
Facing Heaven – Dēudā Folklore, Art & Peace in Nepal
Inception Fieldtrip May 2023 (With contributions & Translation from Dila Dat Pant) Introduction Funding from the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) via a Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) commissioned project began this April, exploring the role of Nepalese Dēudā culture on local conflict issues, peace building and policies for sustainable peace in society. Dr…
Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) Culture as Change Webinar
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…
Building our project team as an International Steering Group: Picturing the past, present, and future in the imaginations, dreams and journeys taken by young women in Nepal and Rwanda
MARLON LEE MONCRIEFFE, Principal Investigator, UK. NUB RAJ BHANDARI, Co-Investigator, Nepal. CHASTE UWIHOEYE, Co-Investigator, Rwanda. Introduction Our MAP team first started working together in Nepal through 2018-19 Changing The Story funded project “Examining Interpretations of Civil National Values made by Young People in Post-Conflict Settings (Kenya and Nepal)”. As well as this, we have worked…
National communications event in Kyrgyzstan
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,…
Picturing the past, present, and future in the imaginations, dreams and journeys taken by young women in Nepal and Rwanda: An introduction
Introduction There is a synergy in the mission of both Janaki Women Awareness Society (Nepal) and Uyisenga Ni Imanzi (Rwanda) in that they exist as Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) for empowering the health, wellbeing and lives of women. Both organisations will work together on a unique international project that will apply the MAP philosophy of…
Allow me to return home: get more love, care, and support when I’m bleeding
Juhi Adhikari Youth Advisory Board member, Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) Participatory arts-based international research project in the UK, Rwanda, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, and Nepal. Credit: Problem Image, Shony Bhatta (anonymised), 14-year-old, Female, Nepal “Please allow me to return home; I’m scared to go to sleep with the cattle nearby. It’s just that I’m going through…
Adapting the Methods of the ‘Mobile Arts for Peace’ Project for the Psychosocial Assistance of Children and Youth in Ukraine
By Olga Ovcharuk Professor of the Department of Cultural Studies and Intercultural Communications National Academy of Managerial Staff of Culture and Arts (Ukraine, Kyiv) Photo Credit: Tina Hartung, Unsplash Russia’s full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine, began on February 24 2022, marked the beginning of the largest humanitarian catastrophe in Europe since the Second World War….
MAP Indonesia: Informing Youth Policy through Arts-based Methods
By Harla Octarra from Atma Jaya, Indonesia This short video shows the journey of how MAP young researchers collaborated with various stakeholders to gradually inform youth policy through research, creating art forms, and an audience with local government. Told from the perspectives of Ibnu, Indri, Haikel, and presented by Harla (as MAP Co-Investigator in Indonesia),…
Reflections: Musical Dialogue during the International Institute on Peace Education (IIPE) conference 2022
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 delivers Welcome Speech at MAP ‘Gathering’ Conference
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….
Manuals and toolkits: Capacity Building for Adults – Mariah Cannon
Author: Mariah Cannon – Institute of Development Studies Edition: Camilo Soler Caicedo Caption: Photo-collage workshop (An example of bottom-up engagement to inform adults) – 8th April 2021, Red Nose Foundation, Jakarta, Indonesia While it was heartening and inspiring to listen to the major successes of the Mobile Arts for Peace projects in their initial…
Short Film on The Usage of Mask in Covid 19 – Janapriya Secondary School
This video is prepared by students of Janapriya secondary school, Hetauda Makwanpur. This is a short film about the use of mask to protect from covid-19 during the pandemic….
Experience of Curriculum Implementation in Palpa, Nepal – Tirtha Prasad Gautam
Author: Tirtha Prasad Gautam Focal teacher, Janapriya Child Club Janapriya Secondary School, Tansen Palpa Nepal Member of Curriculum Development Committee, Tansen Municipality, Palpa Edition: Camilo Soler Caicedo Caption: Activities in Palpa and Kanchanpur District Nepal is a beautiful mountainous country. The Himalayas are full of diversity as they are a combination of mountains and plains….
Reflections on Agents of Change Webinar – Ayesha Mohanty
Author: Ayesha Mohanty Edition: Camilo Soler Caicedo Caption: Kyrgyzstan’s Team Presentation, part of the Agents of Change Webinar If you wish to envision the future of world peace, young people from the MAP project shall be your reflective lens. From Nepal to Kyrgyzstan, Indonesia to Rwanda, the young peacebuilders from these regions, equipped…
How Can Young People Engage Policy-makers?
Author: Ananda Breed Edition: Camilo Soler Caicedo Caption: Policy Brief created by MAP Youth Researchers in Kyrgyzstan Art-based methods enable different stakeholders and audiences to engage with critical ideas and issues. The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) project ‘Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP): Informing the National Curriculum and…
Small Grants to Grant Young People a Voice
Author: Rajib Timalsina Edition: Camilo Soler Caicedo Caption: A Young participant drawing a Conflict Tree As a general trend, policy-informing projects in Nepal are decided by donors and decisions are made from the top-down. Young people are often only at the receiving end of development and research projects. Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) Nepal…
How Does It All End?
Edition: Camilo Soler Caicedo Stigma is adding to the pain of victims of sexual violence, particularly adolescent girls in urban poor communities of East Jakarta. The stigma tends to overlook the disabling environment causing the girls to be at risk of sexual violence. MAP young researchers created a short film to address the problem. The…
MAP Indonesia Music Workshop
In October 2021, MAP Indonesia delivered a series of music workshops for young people of the seven partner organizations: Red Nose Foundation, Yayasan Bandungwangi, Forum Anak (Child Forum) Budi Mulia Pademangan Barat, Forum Anak Cipinang Besar Selatan, Forum Anak Cipinang Besar Utara, Wahana Visi Indonesia, and Yayasan Bina Matahari Bangsa. The workshops were facilitated by…
Imagining Peace through Digital Collage Art
Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) and Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia organised an online workshop on the use of digital collage art for storytelling. The workshop was held in 3 days taken place in July 2021 using Zoom. It was attended by 35 young people (between 13-21 years) who are affiliated with 4 non-profit…
Training of Young Changemakers in Kyrgyzstan
Authors: Anara Eginalieva, Tajyka Shabdanova, Helena-Ulrike Marambio ‘I will no longer believe in the word “impossible”, [instead] I will act’ stated one young participant after the attending a five-day ‘Training the Trainers’ (TOT) workshop organised by the Kyrgyz non-profit organisation and MAP partner Foundation for Tolerance International (FTI). FTI ran a series of five-day…
Manuals and toolkits: Children as agents of positive change. A mapping of children’s initiatives across regions, towards an inclusive and healthy world free from violence
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…
Manuals and toolkits: Office of Special Representatives – Children as Agents of Positive Change
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 UN. This report was issued by the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence Against Children. Children as Agents of…