On August 2 2023, the Visualising Peace project, began filming filming for the video “Mental Health in Schools”. MAP students as well as scripting the film also acted in it. Filming began on a quiet residential street in Kigali. The images show student actors and Kwetu film production crew on location at a residential street…
On August 1 2023, the Visualising Peace project, ran a one day production workshop to plan and undertake filming for the video “Mental Health in Schools”. MAP students cast the roles. This included a female student as the principle character (shown in the photo) performing her own story relating to mental health. Alongside her peers,…
Cite this article: Breed, A., & Uwihoreye, C. (2023). Sharing and listening to stories for peacebuilding in post-genocide Rwanda. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 28(1), 160–171. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569783.2023.2185130 Abstract: This article explores how sharing and listening to stories linked children and young people, educators, artists, civil society workers, and policymakers as part…
MAP in Rwanda worked with key partner organisations including the Institute for Research and Dialogue for Peace (IRDP), the University of Rwanda (UR), the Rwanda Arts Council, Uyisenga Ni Imanzi (UNM), the Rwanda Biomedical Centre and the National Rehabilitation Services to inform Rwanda’s national curriculum and youth policy. Together with the Rwanda Education Board (REB)…
This song tells the story of MAP’s impact in Rwanda, as reflected by Iteriteka Alexandre from Umuduri Band.It was performed during MAP Impact Week Rwanda, 17 July 2023. Song Lyrics: “Mobile Arts for Peace” by Umuduri Band, Rwanda Mobile Arts for Peace, has made change. It makes change, has made change. Mobile Arts for Peacemakes change. Mobile Arts for Peacethe…
This is a comic book explaining how children were physically abused and how they were comforted and healed through consolation. The writing and drawing shows two causes of mental health problems in children, alcoholism and domestic violence, and suggests ways of tackling the problem. It explains how children’s friendship and humanity can save many desperate…
Mbera Incuti (I am a friend) song performance by students at GS Remera Protestant, 2022. This is a children’s song performance that encourages parents and teachers to be kinder to their children, as this will help them feel better….
Translated as: Be comforted, you are not alone I have raised my voice I have come to comfort you I have come to speak to you, children of Rwanda. The Rwanda of yesterday is the one that gave birth to you. I’m here to take care of you. You are not alone, I know there…
Kirehe Youth Club members, Rwanda, are performing a peace song during a listening session on 11 June 2021….
It is a drawing that sends a message to people that if someone is struggling with mental health issues, it is important to be supportive and comforting and make time for them….
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…
In August 2023, the Visualising Peace team with Uyisenga Ni Imanzi (UNM), young people from MAP clubs, and film students from the Kwetu Film Institute produced a series of films exploring family conflict, and the lives of street-based children. They are currently crafting a documentary focusing on interviews with the Kwetu Film Institute students. In…
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…
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Principal Investigator – Picturing the past, present, and future in the imaginations, dreams and journeys taken by young women in Nepal and Rwanda This blog provides a brief discussion on how young women in Rwanda and Nepal have taken part in cycling journeys to safe spaces (Gayle et al. 2013) for their reflection and conversations…
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….
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…
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…
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…
This article will provide an overview of how the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) project Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) has attempted to explore the use of interdisciplinary art-based practices for peacebuilding in Rwanda. In particular, we will detail how performance has been used to create a two-way system…
Human and Humanity Club is a student’s club from Remera Protestant School. Their project, entitled “Advocacy on mental health care and sustainability”, aimed at advocating for children’s voice through arts. …
This article will provide an example of how the ‘Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP): Online psychosocial support through the arts in Rwanda’ project used digital art-based workshops to facilitate social and community cohesion and mental health provision. During the COVID-19 pandemic, there was an increased need for psychosocial support due to the economic and social…
MAP Social Impact Report report seeks to demonstrate the impact of MAP in enhancing conceptions of peace, peacebuilding and conflict resolution, and how arts-based methods can be utilised. …
The MAP at Home Psychosocial Manual delivers five units covering the following themes: 1) Emotion; 2) Sharing Stories; 3) Active Listening & Deep Stories; 4) Family & Community Engagement; 5) Give & Take. The exercises were delivered as part of online digital workshops delivered between March – August 2021, with over 108 research participants working…
