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• Curricula + Manuals and toolkits

  

  Curricula: Pilot Lesson Plan Nepal: Arts-based Approached to Education

  • Nepal

  From October 2023 to July 2024, a research team from Kathmandu University partnered with Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) to develop a pilot Nepal Arts Education Framework. The goal was to adapt and integrate MAP’s art-based exercises into existing secondary school curricula for Culture and Arts Education. This was a need articulated at the UNESCO-MAP...

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• Manuals and toolkits

  

  Manuals and toolkits: Arts-based Approach to Education

  • Nepal

  • Advocating for progressive education

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• • Performance art

  

  GENPEACE children’s performance “Panca Sora”

  • Indonesia

  On 3 March, the GENPEACE children's performance "Panca Sora" was performed at Saung Angklung Udjo, Bandung, and broadcast live. “Panca Sora”, translated as “Five Voices”, provides a model for communicating children's voices on the five clusters of children's rights through cultural arts performances and intergenerational dialogue....

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• Manuals and toolkits + MAP toolkit

  

  Manuals and toolkits: MAP Manual

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• • Music

  

  Music Album – Rwena Rwa Ndabaga (Unfearful girl of Ndabaga)

  • Rwanda

  • Tackling child and gender-based violence

  The school girls who participated in the Gira Ingoma – One Girl per Drum project in Rwanda created and performed poems and songs in which they express their self-confidence and tell the stories of great women (including themselves) to build a new artistic repertoire in which women are present and valued. In their creations, they...

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• Journal article

  

  Journal article: Creating ownership: Strengths and tensions in co-production with children, young people, and adults across contexts

  Cite this article: Paterson-Young, C., Adhikari, J., Lee, L., Maher, M., & Wright, L. H. V. (2024). Creating ownership: Strengths and tensions in co-production with children, young people, and adults across contexts. Childhood, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/09075682241266814 Abstract The inclusion of young people in conducting research leads to the creation of shared knowledge, honest communication, and increases...

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• • Documentary
  • Drawing

  

  Body-Mapping Storytelling

  • Kyrgyzstan

  These artworks were created during the body-mapping storytelling workshops facilitated by Anna Smirnova, AHRC MAP PhD researcher from the School of Creative Arts at the University of Lincoln (UK). Anna’s PhD study is part of the international research project ‘Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP)’ with focus on analysing MAP activities in Kyrgyzstan. The aim of...

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• Manuals and toolkits

  • Drawing

  

  Manuals and toolkits: Body Mapping Storytelling Toolkit

  • Kyrgyzstan

  Below is the detailed step-by-step toolkit to facilitate body mapping storytelling workshops developed by the AHRC MAP PhD researcher, Anna Smirnova....

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• • Exhibition

  

  Children Against Violence

  • Kyrgyzstan

  • Tackling child and gender-based violence

  Kyrgyzstan, Thursday, May 11, 2023 to Monday, December 11, 2023 This exhibition presents drawings by young people, participants of the MAP project Dialogue through Arts (FTI), from four regions of Kyrgyzstan . These are Batken, Bishkek, Jalal-Abad and Osh. One of the participants, Symbat Zhanibekova, composed a song about the problems of children in Kyrgyzstan,...

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• Policy (art) brief + Policy brief

  

  Policy (art) brief: Policy Brief – Youth Mental Health and Gender in Rwanda – learnings from the Picturing Past Present and Future project

  • Rwanda

  • Cultivating well-being and mental health

  This policy brief is informed by the lessons learned from the PPPF project on youth mental health and gender in Rwanda. It provides an overview of the mental health context in Rwanda, details the approach and findings of the PPPF project, and presents recommendations from the MAP Club students to the Ministry of Health (MOH), Ministry of Education (MINEDUC), Ministry of Family and Gender Promotion (MIGEPROF), and Ministry of Youth and Arts (MINI YOUTH) in Rwanda....

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