Dialogue for Peace: Arts-Based Approaches and the Growth of MAP Dialogue Clubs in Rwanda

Authors: Eric Ndushabandi, Victor Ntezirembo, and Sylvestre Nzahabwanayo. Edited by Helena-Ulrike Marambio Arts-based approaches to fostering dialogue have been increasingly used in peacebuilding efforts to advance reconciliation and healing in countries emerging from conflict. In Rwanda, Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) has promoted the inclusion and active participation of youth in national peace programmes since…

The Role of Arts in Education for Peacebuilding and Learner-Centred Approach in Rwanda

By Anna Hata Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) and Learner-Centred Approach in Rwanda ‘MAP motivates and makes us free’ and helps to ‘resolve conflicts in our community,’ a youth member of Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) announced proudly in his speech at the 3-day conference hosted by MAP and Changing the Story. Hosted in cooperation with the…

Arts-Based Research for Education and Peacebuilding Conference (5th-7th August): Reflections from Rwanda

Reflections from MAP Rwanda Project Coordinator – Victor Ntezirembo From 5 to 7 August 2020, the Institute for Research and Dialogue for Peace (IRDP) hosted the Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) and Changing the Story (CTS): Arts-Based Research for Education and Peacebuilding Conference. The conference brought together over 40 participants online from around the globe,…

Book chapter: Speech politics

Performing political scripts Abstract: Ananda Breed’s article investigates gacaca courts in Rwanda, which have been employed since 2005 to address crimes related to the 1994 Rwandan genocide against the Tutsi. Stressing that scripts and performances influence and inform each other in/as an evolving practice, the article explores critically the varied permutations of the gacaca law…

Book chapter: Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP): Curriculum for music, dance and drama in Rwanda

Abstract This chapter examines the use of interdisciplinary, arts-based approaches to peacebuilding through the Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) project in Rwanda, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Global Challenges Research Fund, through an overarching project entitled Changing the Story: Building Inclusive Societies with and for Young People in Five Post-Conflict…

MAP: Shaping the Rwandan National Curriculum

This post was originally published via Changing the Story on 19th March 2020. Changing the Story is an AHRC GCRF project which asks how the arts, heritage and human rights education can support youth-centred approach to civil society building in post-conflict settings across the world. The development of the MAP project was a major output of Changing the…

Kwetu Film Institute Documentaries

Changing the Story aimed to support the building of inclusive civil societies with, and for, young people in 5 post-conflict countries. This pilot project was project was supported by partners Mashirika Creative and Performing Arts, Aegis Trust, Kwetu Film Institute, Hope and Homes for Children, and University of Lincoln. The MAP pilot project aimed to provide training for youth, educators and…

Book chapter: Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP): Youth and Participatory Arts in Rwanda

This is an Accepted Manuscript version of a book chapter published byRoutledge/CRC Press in Participatory Arts in International Development (editedby Paul Cooke & Inés Soria-Donlan) on 29 August 2019. The final version of thechapter is available online: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429399190-8/mobile-arts-peace-map-ananda-breed Keywords: Applied performance, childhood studies, policy, art-based methods, Rwanda…

Book chapter: Theatre for Survival: Art of Creation and Protection (Kubunda)

Cite this chapter: Breed, A., Mukaka, A. (2016). Theatre for Survival: Art of Creation and Protection (Kubunda). In: Duggan, P., Peschel, L. (eds) Performing (for) Survival. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137454270_3 Abstract: Tutsi artists-in-exile sought to use performance as a mode of cultural survival, both to preserve Tutsi culture in the countries of refuge and to…

Book chapter: Resistant Acts in Post-Genocide Rwanda

Cite this chapter: Breed, A. (2015). Resistant Acts in Post-Genocide Rwanda. In: Flynn, A., Tinius, J. (eds) Anthropology, Theatre, and Development. Anthropology, Change and Development. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137350602_6 Abstract: This chapter will analyse how micro and macro socio-political dynamics are articulated in the gacaca courts used to adjudicate crimes linked to the 1994 genocide against Tutsi,…

Book chapter: Gender-based Violence and Human Rights: Participatory Theatre in Post-Genocide Rwanda

Cite this chapter: Breed, A. (2015). Gender-based Violence and Human Rights: Participatory Theatre in Post-Genocide Rwanda. In: Luckhurst, M., Morin, E. (eds) Theatre and Human Rights after 1945. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137362308_10 Abstract: During the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda over one million Tutsi and Hutu moderates were massacred, and an estimated 350,000…

Book chapter: Performing the Nation

Genocide, Justice, Reconciliation Abstract: A dance begins beneath the outstretched branches of the giant umunyinya tree in Rwanda. First there is drumming and clapping, then the lead dancers step into the center of the gathering. The dancing subsides and the gacaca court, the community hearings on the one hundred days of bloodshed known as the…

Book chapter: Discordant Narratives in Rwanda’s Gacaca Courts

Cite this chapter: Breed, A. (2012). Discordant Narratives in Rwanda’s Gacaca Courts. In: Campioni, M., Noack, P. (eds) Rwanda Fast Forward. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137265159_3 Abstract Gacaca was the post-genocide Rwandan government’s solution to address the mass participation of citizens in the genocide against Tutsi in 1994, with the mass participation of the population in…

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