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- Register now: MAP International Online Conference 2025 1 June 2025
- Policy brief: Gira Ingoma book and policy brief: “The Culture We Want, for the Woman We Want” 28 November 2024
- Manuals and toolkits: GENPEACE Children’s Participation Module in the Development Process 13 November 2024
- Journal article: [Working Paper] Gira Ingoma – One Drum per Girl: The culture we want for the woman we want 30 October 2024
- Curricula: Beyond Tradition: Psychosocial Model 30 October 2024
- Curricula: Beyond Tradition Module: Revitalizing Lenong as a Model for Teaching Betawi Arts 30 October 2024
- Curricula: Beyond Tradition: Lenong Revitalisation as a Model for Teaching Betawi Cultural Arts 30 October 2024
- Beyond Tradition Lenong Performance “RAWR…! Kite Kagak Takut” 30 October 2024
- Journal article: [Working Paper] Facing Heaven – Déuda Folklore & Social Transformation in Nepal 30 October 2024
- Curricula: Building Community Curriculums 24 October 2024
- The Magic of Theatre Project Documentary 24 October 2024
- The Magic of Theatre Performances in 2024 24 October 2024
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Register now: MAP International Online Conference 2025
EVENT DATE: 10/07/2025About the Conference We warmly invite you to join the MAP International Online Conference 2025 for shared learning, reflection, and connection among the global Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) community and broader networks. The MAP International Online Conference 2025 from 10-11 July will explore arts-based approaches in diverse settings to support peacebuilding, education, and the leadership of children and young...
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Body Mapping for Peacebuilding
29 July 2024The AHRC MAP PhD researcher, Anna Smirnova, utilised body mapping methodology to facilitate the storytelling of young people in Kyrgyzstan, enabling them to analyse their experiences and integrate youth perspectives into conflict analysis and peacebuilding....
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Press: Art-based Pedagogy for the freedom of thought and creativity: an alternative approach to implement the Emancipated Curriculum in Indonesia
08 July 2024Implementing the Emancipated Curriculum in Indonesia, which has replaced the 2013 Curriculum (K13) in secondary schools, has several challenges. Among them is the absence of a standard textbook. Whilst this is not enforced by the Emancipated Curriculum, schools still hope for guidance. Another challenge is that teaching staff are overwhelmed with the legacy of the...
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Framing a Mithila art-focused local curriculum in Nepal
04 July 2024This article provides a brief overview of the steps towards creating a Mithila art focused local curriculum in one of the rural municipalities in Nepal. The article reflects on the shaping and framing of local information and resources, and how these were crafted into a local curriculum. JWAS applied an inclusive process for collecting information...
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Reflections on piloting lessons for a Nepal Arts Education Framework/Curriculum
28 June 2024Binod Prasad Pant, Kathmandu University From October 2023 to July 2024, Kathmandu University partnered with MAP to develop a pilot Nepal Arts Education Framework, focusing on integrating MAPs arts-based exercises into existing secondary school curricula. This was a need articulated at the UNESCO-MAP Roundtable in September 2023. The pilot Framework provides a case study of...
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May-June 2024 Newsletter
23 June 2024In this issue we are spotlighting our recent hybrid MAP ‘Celebration’ International Conference in May, sharing key findings from the Large Grant reports and sharing MAP’s fourth podcast episode!...
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Teaching Mithila art through a local arts education curriculum: the development of the lessons
19 June 2024Introduction This article briefly explains the development and focus of Mithila art lesson planning, from Grade one to five, for the development of a local arts education curriculum in Nepal (click here to read the introduction on the Mithila art local curriculum in Nepal). To start, a Mithila art workshop with female Mithila artists/painters was...
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Visualising peace in the face of shared suffering
10 June 2024Read one of our International Advisory Board members reflections on the MAP International 'Celebration' conference end of May.......
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Podcasts: MAP podcast – episode 8
07 June 2024In this episode, we invited two Youth Advisory Board (YAB) members from Rwanda – Aurore and Clementine - to tell us more about their participation in the YAB and particularly what they have been doing to support the Monitoring and Evaluation of one of the medium grant projects in Rwanda, the One Drum per Girl. ...