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- Foundation for Tolerance International (FTI) at the Yntymak Week Celebrating International Peace Day 28 September 2023
- Snippets from the UNESCO – MAP Roundtable in Kathmandu, Nepal, on 21 September 2023 27 September 2023
- Youth Participatory Mural Guidebook 21 September 2023
- Looking within: The power of reflexivity in our journeys 20 September 2023
- Comics by students at GS Remera Protestant 16 September 2023
- Song: Mbera Incuti (I am a friend) 16 September 2023
- Drawings by students at APEC Kibondo 16 September 2023
- A Poem: Humura Nturi Wenyine 16 September 2023
- Drawings by students at GS Buhaza 16 September 2023
- Performance of a peace song by Kihere Youth Club members 16 September 2023
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Foundation for Tolerance International (FTI) at the Yntymak Week Celebrating International Peace Day
On September 19, 2023, the Foundation for Tolerance International (FTI) presented the MAP project at the Yntymak Week (Cohesion Week). For the first time, the event unified the voices of the Peacebuilding Hub of Kyrgyzstan and other actors, such as CSOs, formal and informal groups, INGOs, UN, IOs, government, media, grassroots activists, influencers, local leaders,...
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Snippets from the UNESCO – MAP Roundtable in Kathmandu, Nepal, on 21 September 2023
EVENT: 21/09/2023A day of inspiring insights and collaborative conversations on culture and arts education in Nepal. On 21 September, Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) in Nepal, in collaboration with UNESCO Kathmandu, hosted a National Dialogue (Roundtable) on Culture and Arts Education. The UNESCO-MAP National Dialogue (Roundtable) initiative convened diverse voices and practices from across generations, bringing...
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Looking within: The power of reflexivity in our journeys
For the July 15th Youth Advisory Board meeting, we hosted a session on reflexivity. One of the original, and now deleted, slides was called ‘So… how do I think about thinking?” Although awkwardly written, the idea of the title was to encourage a conversation about what being reflexive was: is it simply remembering things that...
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August 2023 Newsletter
Featuring overview of policy (art) briefs, MAP Impact Week 2023, and updates from the project....
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UNESCO – MAP National Dialogue on Culture & Arts Education
EVENT: 21/09/2023UNESCO – MAP National Dialogue on Culture & Arts Education, Kathmandu (Nepal) 21 September 2023 – Exploring inter-generational dialogue through the arts | 9am – 4pm This National Dialogue (Roundtable) aims to create a platform to further the findings from MAP and the UNESCO Kathmandu office’s ambitions towards generating national evidence and actions in promoting...
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MAP Impact Week 2023: A moment of reflection and celebration
EVENT: 17/07/2023By 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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July 2023 Newsletter
Featuring an overview of MAP Phase 2: 2023 projects and a spotlight on Culture as change ...
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My Hetauda Experience
Anjana Nagarkoti Anjana Nagarkoti, a youth researcher, shares her experience on how art-based learning methods can be an effective way to create social awareness among young people who want to learn and contribute to bringing change in their community. Here, she shares her 4-day research experience where she observed the learning style of the young...
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The role of arts-based experience and cultural vitality for social transformation: reflections on MAP work
EVENT:Dr. Michelle Cannon (Guest blogger) My attendance at the online MAP Social Impact event on March 30, 2023, was a random encounter—a chance invite from a colleague who suggested I’d be interested in the project. I’m a lecturer at the UCL Knowledge Lab, UCL Institute of Education (IOE), London, and I lead an MA in...
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Young women of Rwanda and Nepal, cycling in safe spaces, discussing, and challenging gender-based discriminatory proverbs
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...
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Re-spinning cultural art forms: reflections from the Culture as Change webinar
EVENT: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....
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Reflect on your experiences in the MAP project so far…
EVENT:Find out how to contribute to the MAP Impact week 17-20 July!...
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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...
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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...
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Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) Culture as Change Webinar
EVENT: 15/06/2023Can 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...
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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...
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National communications event in Kyrgyzstan
EVENT: 11/05/2023The 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,...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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),...
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Reflections: Musical Dialogue during the International Institute on Peace Education (IIPE) conference 2022
EVENT: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...
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Vice Chancellor Prof. Neal Juster delivers Welcome Speech at MAP ‘Gathering’ Conference
EVENT: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....
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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...
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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....