Decolonising Peace Education In Africa
Lead Research Organisation:
The Open University
Department Name: Faculty of Arts and Social Sci (FASS)
Abstract
Several African countries have been marred by decades of war, violence and conflict. Despite concerted peacebuilding efforts they have struggled to find stable, durable pathways to peaceful societies. Peace education can play a critical role in engendering the knowledge, values, skills and attitudes required to prevent and reduce conflict but so far it has had limited effects. Part of the problem lies in the pedagogies and curricula that underpin peace education which, much like the wider peacebuilding project, are grounded in Eurocentric and liberal values, principles and methods. There have also been increasingly insistent, even violent, demands to decolonise the wider African curriculum but this has largely remained at the level of critique. New materials generated within local communities and representative of their knowledges and values, including of peace, are yet to be embedded in teaching materials to support those most affected by conflict. This project will address that gap. It addresses the question: What are the different knowledges and values underpinning peace and how can these practices be connected and compared across countries to create curriculum content and mode of delivery in informal and formal, Secondary and Higher Education (HE), in order to decolonise peace education?
The project will, for the first time, provide new data based on Arts and Humanities methodologies on how peace is understood within displaced and marginalised communities. Researchers, community workers and communities in conflict will connect to produce a state of the art of existing knowledge. These methods are often dialogic and can reveal long-held community perspectives in unique ways. This data will then be collated, compared and evaluated so as to draw out lessons of existing peace practices and their underlying knowledges and values. Teaching materials will be developed and delivered through 14 weeks of teaching to young people who have had interrupted study due to conflict and are aged 16-35. The peace materials will be embedded in locally desired teaching materials ensuring that the teaching is meaningful. It will be evaluated by the teachers and students. These activities will be done in 4 Proof of Concept projects in Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe as part of Strand 1. In Strand 2 further projects will be undertaken to enhance and expand these initial findings. The values and knowledges of peace will be compared to identify similarities in how they can be approached and understood. They will be synthesised and evaluated as part of Strand 3. A peace education framework will be coproduced collaboratively at a network meeting. Three Open Educational Resources will be hosted in order to provide a freely available that can influence peace education teaching for years to come. The framework will also be embedded in HEI's teacher training with an initial reach of a minimum of 12,000 trainees per year in Strand 1 and a further 8,000 thereafter. Training will also be offered to community-based organisations providing informal learning to ensure that we offer the benefits of the project to those who are vulnerable but hard to reach. The project also seeks to embed these learnings in education policy (as in Zimbabwe) where it will ensure long-term legacy of the key findings. Throughout the project we will adopt a gender-sensitive lens - concepts, methodology and beneficiaries - as women and men are differentially affected by conflict.
The project will deliver at least 9 journal articles, 4 co-edited special issues of journals and an interdisciplinary edited book. In addition, the outputs from the arts and humanities methods will be showcased through exhibitions, performances and workshops. The project will also create a visible network of researchers, policy-makers and community organisations that work together to offer new meaningful knowledges, pedagogies and teaching materials for a decolonised peace education
The project will, for the first time, provide new data based on Arts and Humanities methodologies on how peace is understood within displaced and marginalised communities. Researchers, community workers and communities in conflict will connect to produce a state of the art of existing knowledge. These methods are often dialogic and can reveal long-held community perspectives in unique ways. This data will then be collated, compared and evaluated so as to draw out lessons of existing peace practices and their underlying knowledges and values. Teaching materials will be developed and delivered through 14 weeks of teaching to young people who have had interrupted study due to conflict and are aged 16-35. The peace materials will be embedded in locally desired teaching materials ensuring that the teaching is meaningful. It will be evaluated by the teachers and students. These activities will be done in 4 Proof of Concept projects in Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe as part of Strand 1. In Strand 2 further projects will be undertaken to enhance and expand these initial findings. The values and knowledges of peace will be compared to identify similarities in how they can be approached and understood. They will be synthesised and evaluated as part of Strand 3. A peace education framework will be coproduced collaboratively at a network meeting. Three Open Educational Resources will be hosted in order to provide a freely available that can influence peace education teaching for years to come. The framework will also be embedded in HEI's teacher training with an initial reach of a minimum of 12,000 trainees per year in Strand 1 and a further 8,000 thereafter. Training will also be offered to community-based organisations providing informal learning to ensure that we offer the benefits of the project to those who are vulnerable but hard to reach. The project also seeks to embed these learnings in education policy (as in Zimbabwe) where it will ensure long-term legacy of the key findings. Throughout the project we will adopt a gender-sensitive lens - concepts, methodology and beneficiaries - as women and men are differentially affected by conflict.
The project will deliver at least 9 journal articles, 4 co-edited special issues of journals and an interdisciplinary edited book. In addition, the outputs from the arts and humanities methods will be showcased through exhibitions, performances and workshops. The project will also create a visible network of researchers, policy-makers and community organisations that work together to offer new meaningful knowledges, pedagogies and teaching materials for a decolonised peace education
Planned Impact
This network aims to respond to the pressing need for alternative knowledges and values in peace education curricula, which go beyond the Eurocentric dominated approaches of past decades, as a way addressing problems of conflict and violence in Africa. It will produce quality Open Educational Resource (OER) materials for peace education using a comprehensive framework for peace informed by local, contextualised, gendered knowledges and values underpinning peace. It will connect academics and community organisations across 19 projects, compare findings obtained through use of arts and humanities methodologies and create teaching materials for peace education in a range of African countries. The project has been designed to create impact at four levels:
1. Local communities: The most immediate impact will be on the communities who participate in projects. Arts and humanities methodologies will be used to capture local understandings, knowledge and values of peace among groups in conflict and use this evidence to produce a contextually sensitive peace framework. In doing so, the project will also embed and strengthen gender and intersectional analysis in decolonising peace and education research. The materials will be delivered across 14 weeks to those who are out of school. The content of this teaching will be co-designed to meet the demands of potential students and will ensure that women and girls whose educational trajectories are affected by conflict are included. The teaching will be evaluated for efficacy and relevance. After completion of the 19 projects community-based members will be trained to deliver this teaching. This informal education will directly benefit those who have suffered educational inequality due to conflict.
2. Educational institutions: Those involved in teaching will benefit directly and indirectly from this project. Findings will be integrated into teacher training materials which will provide new knowledge and skills while building capacity for quality education in HEIs. In Strand 1 at least 12,000 students per year will have access to this material. Embedding materials in local educational policies through the support of government ministries of education will ensure longevity and a legacy from which future students will benefit for years to come.
3. NGOs and peace-building practitioners in Africa: While each project includes at least one country-based NGO to help maximise learning across different sectors, the network intends to draw in a range of organisations working on peace such as education providers, local communities and NGOs. They will draw on existing knowledge and projects encouraging critical evaluation and learning. Finally, the co-produced framework and OERs will have application and relevance for peace-practitioners across the world who deal with the legacy of conflict and are looking for local examples of solutions to embed in their peace education activities.
4. Policy makers: Governments are searching for locally relevant teaching materials in the context of the decolonisation agenda sweeping Africa. In-country networks will involve decision-makers across a range of levels, including Ministries of Education and Teacher Training networks so that each projects is aware of current peace education discourses and policies and aligns with national objectives, addressing areas of greatest need.
As partners, UNHCR will advise on the relationship between the educational materials created and the Global Compact on Refugees and their education mandate. The Global Campaign for Peace Education will enable this knowledge to be used to provide new perspectives to peace-workers trained in the global North. Africans Rising for Justice, Peace and Dignity will ensure that the materials have a wide reach among its grassroots representatives and are developed and delivered sensitively and ethically in order to decolonise peace education and contribute to stable societies.
1. Local communities: The most immediate impact will be on the communities who participate in projects. Arts and humanities methodologies will be used to capture local understandings, knowledge and values of peace among groups in conflict and use this evidence to produce a contextually sensitive peace framework. In doing so, the project will also embed and strengthen gender and intersectional analysis in decolonising peace and education research. The materials will be delivered across 14 weeks to those who are out of school. The content of this teaching will be co-designed to meet the demands of potential students and will ensure that women and girls whose educational trajectories are affected by conflict are included. The teaching will be evaluated for efficacy and relevance. After completion of the 19 projects community-based members will be trained to deliver this teaching. This informal education will directly benefit those who have suffered educational inequality due to conflict.
2. Educational institutions: Those involved in teaching will benefit directly and indirectly from this project. Findings will be integrated into teacher training materials which will provide new knowledge and skills while building capacity for quality education in HEIs. In Strand 1 at least 12,000 students per year will have access to this material. Embedding materials in local educational policies through the support of government ministries of education will ensure longevity and a legacy from which future students will benefit for years to come.
3. NGOs and peace-building practitioners in Africa: While each project includes at least one country-based NGO to help maximise learning across different sectors, the network intends to draw in a range of organisations working on peace such as education providers, local communities and NGOs. They will draw on existing knowledge and projects encouraging critical evaluation and learning. Finally, the co-produced framework and OERs will have application and relevance for peace-practitioners across the world who deal with the legacy of conflict and are looking for local examples of solutions to embed in their peace education activities.
4. Policy makers: Governments are searching for locally relevant teaching materials in the context of the decolonisation agenda sweeping Africa. In-country networks will involve decision-makers across a range of levels, including Ministries of Education and Teacher Training networks so that each projects is aware of current peace education discourses and policies and aligns with national objectives, addressing areas of greatest need.
As partners, UNHCR will advise on the relationship between the educational materials created and the Global Compact on Refugees and their education mandate. The Global Campaign for Peace Education will enable this knowledge to be used to provide new perspectives to peace-workers trained in the global North. Africans Rising for Justice, Peace and Dignity will ensure that the materials have a wide reach among its grassroots representatives and are developed and delivered sensitively and ethically in order to decolonise peace education and contribute to stable societies.
Publications
Marovah T
(2023)
The Pedagogical Value of Museums in the Teaching and Learning of Secondary School History: A Historical Thinking Perspective
in The Social Studies
Title | Algeria Creative Film |
Description | Documentary film |
Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Impact | The reinstate of traditional storytelling/medihs (traditional songs) and the traditional proverbs of the past. |
Title | Burundi/DRC -Co-production of depictions of rives, creative writing |
Description | Co-production of depictions of rives, creative writing |
Type Of Art | Artwork |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Impact | Dissemination of different views on nature - conflict entanglements |
URL | https://www.flickr.com/photos/195051248@N04/albums/72177720306313810 |
Title | Burundi/DRC Drawing as a method |
Description | Co-production of depictions of borders, creative writing |
Type Of Art | Creative Writing |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Impact | Joint reflection on methodological approach, familiarisation with arts based methods |
URL | https://www.flickr.com/photos/195051248@N04/albums/72177720305464689 |
Title | Burundi/DRC Drawing as a method |
Description | Co-production of depictions of lake, creative writing |
Type Of Art | Creative Writing |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Impact | Joint reflection on methodological approach - participative - arts based dimensions |
URL | https://www.flickr.com/photos/195051248@N04/albums/72177720306183288 |
Title | Kenya - Sports for social cohesion |
Description | Enhancing physical and mental well-being |
Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Impact | Improved inter-ethnic understanding and collaboration among refugees |
URL | https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1jfvh2ORt4nrYyNq9tk5QBE5nIf1FIKOC |
Title | Kenya - engineering prtotypes |
Description | Solutions to problems identified by refugees in the camp and which they built out as physical prototypes |
Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Impact | N/A |
Title | Kenya - poetry |
Description | Refugees wrote poems expressing their visions of peace |
Type Of Art | Creative Writing |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Impact | Ownership of the concept of peace by refugees |
Title | Photovoice images |
Description | Photovoice images captured in Johannesburg |
Type Of Art | Artwork |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Impact | Young artists captured photo images for of their everyday life depicting peace and conflict |
Title | Sierra Leone Community Theatre Production |
Description | Community Theatre Production |
Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Impact | N/A - not published |
Title | Soundscape |
Description | A recording of the acoustic environment to capture the sounds of conflict in a community |
Type Of Art | Composition/Score |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Impact | Bringing together of a community artist group to produce soundscapes and conceptualise the notion of acoustics environments. |
Title | Sports for social cohesion |
Description | Enhancing physical and mental well-being |
Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Impact | Improved inter-ethnic understanding and collaboration among refugees Kenya, Kakuma |
URL | https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1jfvh2ORt4nrYyNq9tk5QBE5nIf1FIKOC |
Description | The projects have discovered many different aspects of education for peace. 1. They have identified some working methods for embedding this education through collaborative processes 2.They have identified a framing device for thinking about education for peace which has led to another consultancy for Marovah from UNESCO. 3. The South African team have explored the value of sound in peace and conflict and how to utilise sounds in and for education for peace 4. The Cameroonian team along with those at Lancaster have identified the importance of agroecology in conflict and peace and embedded this through education. 5. The Nigerian team have identified stories of the Glavda people which has been recorded. It is a dying language and this repository will become a useful resource in years to come. 6. The Kenyan team have identified Sports, Engineering and Arts as essential elements for a revised curricula for HE in refugee contexts and tested its efficacy. |
Exploitation Route | The findings have already been used to underpin Marovah's work with UNESCO on education for peace. |
Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy Creative Economy Education Government Democracy and Justice Culture Heritage Museums and Collections |
URL | https://www.decolonising-education-for-peace-africa.org/ |
Description | The findings in Ethiopia are being used to run training workshops for teachers and young people on how to deal with gendered violence. Leaflets have been produced in 3 languages. The research in Cameroon has led to follow on funding on how to teach about climate change and conflict both in UK schools and in Cameroonian schools. The latter is work being undertaken with the British Council. The Geographical Association of the UK are part of both projects The research in Zimbabwe has led to changes in the history education curriculum in Midlands State University. Marovah has also been asked to join the team who are rethinking the history teacher training curriculum in the country as a result of his work and findings in DEPA. The team in Sierra Leone have trained a range of teachers and young people in film-making, using story telling in the classroom and in theatre for peace. One of the young persons went on to take part in the national story telling competition while one of the groups has also been given a slot in the local radio station to host a weekly programme. This all resulted directly from the training offered by DEPA. |
First Year Of Impact | 2022 |
Sector | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Creative Economy,Education,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
Impact Types | Cultural Societal |
Description | African Network for International Education |
Geographic Reach | Africa |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Impact | The framework has been further developed and offered in another country based on feedback from the ANIE workshop |
Description | Teacher Educators' Training on Open Education Resources Production |
Geographic Reach | Africa |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Impact | The educators have embraced the creation of short videos with zeal. |
Description | Teacher training |
Geographic Reach | Africa |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Impact | The use of methods led to the development of teacher training programme in Abuja IDP camps. There are currently 20 to 25 teachers who are receiving training on how to teach in low-resourced environments using simple photography and storytelling techniques. |
Description | Embedding and Enabling Creative Economy in Marginalised Societies: Creative Skills for Peace |
Amount | £133,492 (GBP) |
Funding ID | AH/W006812/1 |
Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 11/2021 |
End | 01/2023 |
Description | Peace and Reconciliation Challenge Grant |
Amount | £2,500 (GBP) |
Organisation | Association of Commonwealth Universities |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2022 |
End | 04/2022 |
Title | Kenya - Participatory action research |
Description | Refugee-led analysis of context and production of research questions, action recommendations following end of research |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Title | DEPA - Ethiopia Interview and Focus Group Discussion Transcripts |
Description | The 18 files in this item are interviews and focus group discussions conducted at the preliminary stage of the project. The are exploring understandings and experiences of gender-based violence and its impacts on the women and communities in Harar with teachers, health workers and affected women. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://ordo.open.ac.uk/articles/dataset/DEPA_-_Ethiopia_Interview_and_Focus_Group_Discussion_Transc... |
Title | DEPA - Ethiopia PhotoVoice Images Representing Gender-Based Violence |
Description | This collection contains 170 photographs that were taken by the 12 youth participants involved in the PhotoVoice aspect of the research methodology. The images are representations of how the youth view, understand and experience gender-based violence in their community. For anonymity and security, participants were asked to only take images of objects and places, and not human subjects.The associated README file holds the metadata for each of the 170 individual data files. The information is organised sequentially by file number and provides the: file name, data type, a title and a description. The file names can be used to cross reference to get more detail on a particular file.The Ethiopia Project is a commissioned project with DEPA (Decolonising Education for Peace in Africa). DEPA was a 4 year project funded by the Arts and Humanities Council (AHRC) addressing the question: What are the different knowledges and values underpinning peace and how can these practices be connected and compared across countries to create curriculum content and mode of delivery in informal and formal settings, Secondary and Higher Education (HE), in order to decolonise peace education? |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2024 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://ordo.open.ac.uk/articles/dataset/DEPA_Ethiopia_PhotoVoice_Images_Representing_Gender-Based_V... |
Title | SECURE 360° |
Description | SECURE 360° is a coined account in order to keep the anonymity of the data collected from storytelling, theatre, and filming. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | SECURE 360° is a coined account in order to keep the anonymity of the data collected from storytelling, theatre, and filming. |
Description | Burundi Civil Society Conceptual workshop |
Organisation | University of Antwerp |
Country | Belgium |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Convening of partners for a joint conceptual workshop |
Collaborator Contribution | Joint reflection of decolonial concepts in local languages |
Impact | Development of in-country replationships |
Start Year | 2023 |
Description | Burundi Civil Society methodological workshop |
Organisation | University of Antwerp |
Country | Belgium |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Bringing together of partner organisations for a methodological workshop |
Collaborator Contribution | Project development, training, joint reflection |
Impact | Collaborative research relationships |
Start Year | 2023 |
Description | Collaboration with teacher educators from Zimbabwean teachers' colleges |
Organisation | Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education |
Country | Zimbabwe |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Coordinated and facilitated an inception workshop with teacher educators from the 14 teacher's colleges. Also facilitated paper writing workshop with teacher educators. |
Collaborator Contribution | Allowed the teacher educators leave of absence from their workplaces across the breadth of the country to attend the workshop. Waivered the Official Secrecy Act, and allowed lecturers to divulge information pertaining to their operations and their relations with their surrounding communities. |
Impact | Strategic plans by each college on how to integrate peace-building in their operations. One college has gone on to create infrastructure that enables sustainable peaceful sharing of internet facilities with the surrounding communities (Initially, the college used to clash with the community over internet sharing issues). Two abstracts have been produced and two papers on decolonizing education are being jointly developed by research team members and teacher educators. |
Start Year | 2022 |
Description | Salone DEPA - Academic team |
Organisation | Fourah Bay College |
Country | Sierra Leone |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | The research team was present for the training of trainers' sessions (Theatre, storytelling and film). On the first and final day of each project, I as the Co - PI gave an overview and importance ofthe Salone DEPA project - which is to decolonise peace education through theatre/ dance, film and storytelling, and to produce educational/ materials for Sierra Leone and other countries; and also requested the consent of thevisitors/ invited guests to be filmed and for their images to be freely used in future, which was Members of my research team were also pesent for all the sessions and responded/ provided a rigourous academic research forum |
Collaborator Contribution | Members of my research team were also present for all the sessions and responded/ provided a rigorous academic research forum |
Impact | The collaboration has not only strengthened the relationship between my department (Peace & Conflict Studies), Charlie Hafner, PAN - SL, and Yusifu Jalloh, but has also laid a solid foundation for cross future collaborative training in theatre, storytelling, and filming projects. The artist will in future, serve as guest/ visiting lecturers/trainers, and to help produce peace education and teaching/ learning materials. As the project is ongoing, it is still in the transcription, translation and the analysis stage, thus the findings, outputs and outcomes are not yet available. |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | The University of South Africa partner in South Africa |
Organisation | UNISA |
Country | South Africa |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | The OU and UNISA work on similar models of education, open and distant, the collaboration uses the strengths in this distance education to develop understanding of how this project can be used in the distance environment in different context. the OU research team brings this expertise to the partnership. The collaboration equally brings the grant funding from the UK as well as a plug into UK networks. |
Collaborator Contribution | UNISA is a large open distance university in South Africa, the in kind contribution is in the areas of infrastructure, the use of meeting rooms, IT equipment and office space. Further, UNISA brand carries significant weight in South Africa and the in kind use of this branding when approaching organisations and individuals adds significant value. UNISA is also hosting the OER on their open server this give exposure to the OER to general visitors to the OER. |
Impact | For this project - at this point in the project (2022) the outputs are 20 Soundscapes |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | #ImaginingOtherwise: hope as a critical resistance |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Aylwyn Walsh will present the key outcomes from a year-long GCRF funded collaborative project. The partners from the Tshisimani Centre for Activist Education, BottomUp and the University of Leeds worked with artists to engage young people from Cape Town to explore the specific conflation of race, space and violence in South Africa's most unequal city. The participants from the Cape Flats alongside young refugees worked intensively using visual arts, creative writing and digital storytelling, asking 'when we create and make the world, can that assist in redressing the psycho-social effects of poverty, unemployment and rampant violence in educational and activist alternatives?'. In addition to a sharing of arts outcomes, the project produced 3 digital toolkits on films for social change and a youth arts toolkit as well as a glossary of arts education. In this presentation, she will share some of the themes and outcomes from the project, with a specific focus on the importance of critical hope that can emerge through the arts in order to enable activist dimension that can challenge the perniciousness of gender based violence in South Africa - affecting poor and working class communities asymmetrically. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | African Traditional Mechanisms of Conflict Resolution |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Drawing on her years of experience in conflict management, Stella Sabiiti, a veteran educator, will discuss African Indigenous mechanisms of preventing and resolving conflict and stabilising peace. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Art Methodology Workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | The Workshop was aimed to subject several Art research techniques to intense discussions, in terms of their pros and cons, and to enable us consider and apply in DEPA. It was attended by 27 participants, all of them academics (from the Faculties of Art and Education), as well as members of DEPA Nigeria Team. The deliberations were quite robust and revealing and very helpful ultimately. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Conflict coaching - Interpersonal mediation - Train the Trainer |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | Train the trainer 8 day workshop on Peace Education for young adults to give them skills to work with adolescents in schools and young adults in their marginalised communities. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Consultative workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | This workshop was a full-day event to get feedback on the developed educational materials. Feedback was given by teachers, experts from the gender department at Haramaya University, and the NGO team. 16 people attended and suggested to make the material better aligned to the level of secondary school students and recommended dissemination beyond the three schools we have been working closely with. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | DEPA - Decolonising In Conversation (Webinar discussant series) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | A new webinar series based on discussant panels that bring together team members from across the portfolio of 14 projects: artists, activists, academics, educators and policymakers, to explore emerging findings around the core questions DEPA is asking |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3LwR5wjDUsWWwx1ydIEgWA |
Description | DEPA Nigeria Conference - Maiduguri Nigeria |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The Decolonising Education for Peace in Africa (DEPA) conference explored knowledges and values underpinning peace and how these can be connected and compared across countries. The aim was to explore how Nigerian knowledges and beliefs can decolonise pedagogies around how peace is taught and incorporated into education in Nigeria. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | DEPA South Africa online Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A online conference was organised in South Africa to bring together papers on decolonising peace education. The conference was online due to Covid and papers were presented and then uploaded to youtube. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | DEPA Uganda - Research assessment trip to Oruchinga refugee settlement Uganda |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Meetings with multiple stakeholders to discuss DEPA Uganda. Meetings with OPM, implementing partners, schools, health facilities, youth groups, refugee community organisations, |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | DEPA Webinar Series |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | This webinar series unpacks philosophical traditions devoted to African thought schemes and cultural institutions and practices. It draws on individuals from within the wider DEPA network (friends, allies and colleagues) to present on the projects and other works that include, or relate to, aspects of peace education. Speakers come from a range of disciplines and professions - academics, activists, artists, educators, policy-makers and practitioners. The webinar series started in Jan 2021 and has, to date, had 10 sessions (individual speakers). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022,2023 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3LwR5wjDUsWWwx1ydIEgWA |
Description | DEPA-Nigeria International Conference on Peace Building, Social Justice and Reparations |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | The Conference attracted scholars from 10 Nigerian universities (who had earlier on submitted Abstracts). Members of the DEPA Project from the UK and elsewhere joined virtually. The papers were reviewed and critiqued by participants. Six of the papers were selected for publication |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | DRC Arts based workshop Feminist Activists, Displaced |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Arts Based workshop |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.flickr.com/photos/195051248@N04/albums/72177720306313810 |
Description | Decolonising Peace Education through African Philosophy, Thought and Culture |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Prof Ugwuanyi's talk will articulate how, by engaging philosophical traditions devoted to African thought schemes or those that arise from African experience, it will be possible to achieve peace education that is distinctly African, or least defends peace ideals of the worldview of African peoples. He will focus on (a) African philosophical enquiry (b)African thought schemes and (c)African cultural institutions and practices, to illustrate how these can serve to decolonise peace education. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Discussion with faculty members about values |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | This was a seminar discussion with faculty members during a workshop on Education for sustainable development which triggered debates around the concept 'decolonisation'. Over 45 members attended this one-day workshop. This has led to a co-authored paper with a colleague on decolonising the Food and Technology Development ordinary level curriculum. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Draft Policy Production with Zhombe Teachers |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | The intended purpose was to introduce teachers to reflective practice and policy drafting. 15 teachers were trained in policy drafting. The teachers were excited to realize that change would only happen in their practice if they document their experiences and share with their administrators and colleagues. 3 policy drafts covering ECD, junior and secondary education emerged. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Educational material development |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | The workshop took place over five days to develop educational materials based on the research findings. The educational materials were created through collaboration between the local NGO, teachers, a representative from the gender department of Haramaya University, Harari region youth, women and child affairs health office, as well as a researcher from the team. The purpose was to create educational materials for three local schools. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | From Frantz Fanon to Ngugi Wa Thiong'o:Language as a Technology of the Self |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Dr Okpala's talk will retrace the project of decolonization as an encounter with colonial discourse and argue that any decolonizing project should begin with reclaiming the language of the colonized and "securing the base": making the colonized visible. The seminar offers a fundamental system for reclamation. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Global Norm Translation in Local Transitional Spaces |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Utilizing the case of UN Resolutions 1325 (Women, Peace, and Security) and 2250 (Youth, Peace, and Security), Dr Eliseo Huesca Jr's talk will illuminate the transformative influences of UN's normative logics in peace-security-development nexus in fragile and transitional environments; the differentiated responses on the global-local interfaces; and political agencies of local stakeholders. Researchers on global politics and international development offer insightful analyses on how transnational norms shape and reconfigure domestic institutions, policies, practices, and collective belief systems. Within this body of literature, however, the situated dynamics of the global-local encounter in norm-receiving communities are considerably overlooked. By building on the 'local turn' of norm translation studies, this talk interrogates how globally-circulating norms have reconstructed, or otherwise, the normative orders in transitioning Muslim Mindanao. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Interviews for Salone DEPA project record-keeping. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | The interviews were conducted by Sierra Gem camera crew targeting members of our research team. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
Description | Kenya - INEE PSS/SEL presentation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Webinar; support for SEL during the pandemic |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://inee.org/events/providing-pss-sel-support-learners-during-covid-19 |
Description | Kenya - USAID Higher Education Learning Network /HELN) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Webinar; stimulate learning from best practice |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.edu-links.org/resources/WhatWeLearnedfromtheHigherEducationGlobalEvidenceSummit |
Description | LGBTQI+ Stakeholder Engagement |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | 25 people attending a launch of the DEPA project - Trans-knowledge and PhotoVoice for Activism and Peacebuilding in Mozambique. The purpose of the workshop was to communicate the project at the initial opening of the work to get feedback and buy in from key policy and third sector actors. As the educational aim is to inform advocacy and activism, their inclusion at this stage was to support dissemination activities for a later date. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Lecture - University of Ghana - Public health |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Lecture and panel discussion to health professionals, sexual reproductive health service providers, programme managers and technical advisors, especially those working with the displaced in Africa. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Lectures with students for module Applied History Education & Heritage |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | Interaction with students both in-service and preservice at Undergraduate and Masters level over the past 3 years (2020-2022). Inservice students are teachers and education practitioners from across the country. The focus was to deepen our understanding of transformative pedagogy, a practice borrowed from other UNESCO funded projects which started in December 2020. This was envisaged as relevant for teaching for the prevention of violence across the curriculum although our application was specifically to history. A total of 75 undergraduate and 45 masters students were engaged. The engagement was meant to also trial teaching material for teacher educators developed in our DEPA project. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021,2022 |
Description | Nakivale refugee settlement visit |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | Meeting, networking event to discuss DEPA activities to refugee community/ schools based in Nakivale Refugee settlement. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | National Workshop on Curricula for Conflict and Peace. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The 4-day Workshop was organized by a government agency, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), and participants were drawn from tertiary institutions (universities, polytechnics, and colleges of education) in Nigeria. The main theme of the event was "Toward Effective Curricula for Conflict and Peace Subjects in our Schools." Resource persons included accomplished scholars, policy makers and professional practitioners. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | New Kuchingoro IDP camp - Elders group workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | Oral histories research update session with participants and community members. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Op-Ed |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | This was an op-ed piece published on a prestigious newsletter and website - The Times Higher Education. The op-ed argues that the current movement for decolonising universities should also be applied to research 'partnerships' and their unequal balance of power. I have received invitations to deliver a talk and it was very well received by many editors, researchers, and university leaders. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/equal-research-partnerships-are-myth-we-can-change |
Description | Open Education Resources Production with Teacher Educators |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The major intention was to disseminate the findings from the DEPA project and to train teacher educators (lecturers) on how to create Open Educational Resources (OERS) to use in the teaching and learning of peace educators. 15 lecturers attended the workshop and were trained in how to make OERs involving short videos to use in their lectures using the simplest gadget, a smart phone. This created intense interest amongst the educators considering the mixed bag nature of their ICT literacy. In three groups, the participants created three OERs. Due to the interest created the teacher educators promised to go and train their student teachers on how to use the acquired skills in their teaching and learning endeavours. They promised to send more OERs that would have been produced by their learners. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Open Education Resources Production with Zhombe Primary School Teachers |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | The aim was to go to the teacher participants in Zhombe and share the findings from the study. 15 teachers teaching different learning areas and different grades participated. They were introduced to the use of the smart phone to create open education resources. The 15 participants were excited to realize that no one amongst them had thought they could improvise and create a lot of interesting media from the smart phone; a gadget they have always been having among themselves. 3 OERs were produced by the teachers at the end of the training exercise. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | PADEAP Uganda networking meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | DEPA Uganda networking event. Engagement with policymakers, refugee community groups and artists. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | PADEAP Uganda networking meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | Networking meeting with Pan African movement Uganda chapter, which sparked questions and discussion afterwards. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Participation in lecture/ panel series - London School of Health and tropical Medicine |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | 50 practitioners/ post graduate students attended lecture/ panel discussion on decolonising research methods - sexual reproductive healthcare |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Pedagogy as Politics, Politics as Pedagogy: Two Ways of Working for Peace |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | In this seminar, Richard Johnson will reflect on his experience of being political in the university and why it matters in what we teach and learn and as important, how. He will talk about how he has been involved in political education, both as a peace activist and as a member of political parties. In doing so, he will speak about the characteristic difficulties of linking academic teaching and research with political activism as well as the importance - always but especially now - of doing this. He will focus on 'pedagogy' as developed by Paolo Freire to highlight how there are some specifically educational aspects of being effective in both educational and political spheres. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | PhotoVoice 1-day photo selection workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | 12 participants took part in workshop 28.5.2022 to go through the photos they had taken and select 12 photos for an exhibition that will be held in late June. The participants had taken approximately 75 photos that were reviewed together to reach consensus for the photos to be displayed in the exhibition. The workshop took a whole day and included discussion about how each photo relates to gender-based violence. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | PhotoVoice exhibition |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | PhotoVoice exhibition in local NGO compound. Approximately 30 people attended the exhibition and took part in the discussion and generated ideas for the use of the photos in local secondary schools and how to continue working on the topic of gender-based violence. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | PhotoVoice training for participants |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | 12 (7 women and 5 men) people attended a two-day workshop to prepare for them to take pictures related to the topic of gender-based violence and for a exhibition for other stakeholders later in 2022. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Presentation at the IGU |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation on Soundscapes as a methodology and some results at the IGU Paris |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Presentation: Midlands Africa Studies Hub conference, Coventry University |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Conference: Imagining the Future: Transforming research practices to amplify unheard voices for sustainability, peace and justice in Africa. Midlands Africa Studies Hub (MASH) Conference 2022 Hosted by the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Production of Policy Drafts with Teacher Education College Lecturers |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The intended purpose was to train college lecturers to draft policies that would influence their practice in different learning areas. 15 college lecturers attended and were trained on how to engage with the experiences in their workplaces so as to come up with draft policies. The lecturers were excited when they engaged in reflective practice exercise especially with peace education. The participants engaged in eye opening discussions and even identified amongst themselves those institutions that had almost similar situations. In the self-identified groups, three policies; comprising ECD, junior and secondary school teacher education training were drafted. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Proof of Concept Binga |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The activity had 3 phases, namely the planning workshop, the intergenerational interviews and the co-analysis and co-designing workshop. The intended purpose being to plan, gather data and engage with educators. The planning workshop entailed meeting with 4 members from the partners, 2 from Binga Craft Centre and 2 from BaTonga Community Museum. in the planning phase the intended participants, workshop objectives and activities for the next phase were identified. This helped in creating a working rapport. The intergenerational interviews involved 4 youths and 2senior wood carvers and 2 basket weavers. 2 teachers were also invited to be part of the workshop while 4 professionals that included 2 from the museum industry and 2 from the craft centre also attended as facilitators and cultural exchange ambassadors. Of these 2 were also invited from the Tonga community across the Zambezi River in Zambia. The senior craftspeople engaged with the youth on skills transfer. Facilitators trained the youths in carrying out intergenerational interviews and also how to record on camera. Crafts emerged as well as videos of the interviews as outputs of the session. The co-analysis and co-design phase involved a joint session with 7 teachers and 3 school heads aimed at identifying values, knowledges and skills needed to entrench peace in the existing teaching/learning contexts. Members from the craft centre and museum also participated with a view to identifying informal ways of teaching a culture of peace among community members. Local songs, stories and values that could be used in the teaching of peace emerged. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Sierra Leone INTERVIEW/ FOCUS GROUP DISCUSSION |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Dr. Mbayo held personal interviews and focus group discussions with most of the twelve School teachers, who were trained in storytelling between the 11th ans 12th of December, 2022 to get their personal views / experiences with their involvement in the DEPA project as story telling trainees. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Sierra Leone INTERVIEW/FOCUS GROUP DISCUSSION |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | Interviews and lengthy discussions were held with the Attaya - Base boys, who received some training on peace and co-existence by those selected students who received the DEPA training on videography and peaceful co-existence. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Sierra Leone SYMPOSIUM |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | A one day symposium was held with the students of the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies, at Fourah Bay College |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Skills transfer and Intergenerational Interviews with Binga Crafts Elders and the Youths |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | 4 crafts people, 4 youths and 4 NGO practitioners attended a skills transfer workshop and were trained on how to carry out intergenerational interviews. This saw the youths designing and creating their own crafts that are used during peaceful times in their society. The youths after being trained on how to carry out interviews generated interviews that were ladened with the historical ways in which the Tonga peacefully co-existed. During the intergenerational interviews, the youths managed to expose Tonga folklores, songs and dances. Some of the dances, songs and folklores were exposed from the Tonga who live in Zambia. This activity also created synergies between the researchers, Binga Craft Centre, BaTonga Museum, Lusaka Craft Centre and Choma Museum. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Sound Matters symposium |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Around 40-50 people attended this online symposium, hosted by the South African Research Chair in Science Communication, the Academic Citizen, and the South African Journal of Science. Stefanie Kappler presented a paper emerging from the South African soundscape project, entitled "Soundscapes as Community Voices: Sonic Memories and Amnesias" (co-authored with Ashley Gunter and Lorna Truter). The presentation sparked important debates about how sound can be used for decolonial and museum-based projects. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://the-academic-citizen.org/2023/10/04/sound-matters-virtual-symposium-call-for-proposals-abstr... |
Description | South Africa/Mozambique - Training workshop coducted on 29-30 November 2022 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | 9 participants including 5 JHGC staff and facilitators joined by 2 participants from Mozambique (CEPCB) participated in a 2 day workshop to learn more about Photovoice and Soundscape - the uses, benefits, outcomes and possible pitfalls of these methodologies. The presentation was followed by practical activities where participants took their own photographs or recorded soundscapes to share with the group. This was followed by a discussion of how best these methodologies can be shared in included in the JHGCs existing programme CMP which promotes youth leadership and activism linked to peace projects across the continent. A training Workshop was conducted on the 29-30 November 2022 on Photovoice and Soundscape methodologies. Professor Ashley Gunter (UNISA) and Dr Kenneth Manual facilitated and presented the methodologies of Photovoice and Soundscape which were followed by practical exposure to these techniques and discussion on how these tools can be included in the Change Makers Programme (CMP) Train the Trainer in the future. Participants included 5 Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC) educators and facilitators, 2 participants from CEPCB Mozambique, 1 participant from Leeds University, and 2 participants from UNISA. The primary engagement was to familiarise JHGC facilitators with the methodologies of Photovoice and Soundscape as they plan and prepare to facilitate the training workshop in March 2023. The participants took part in a 2 day workshop to learn more about Photovoice and Soundscape - the uses, benefits, outcomes and possible pitfalls of these methodologies. The presentation was followed by practical activities where participants took their own photographs or recorded soundscapes to share with the group. This was followed by a discussion of how best these methodologies can be shared in included in the JHGCs existing programme CMP which promotes youth leadership and activism linked to peace projects across the continent. The JHGC educators and facilitators gained information, ideas and deeper understanding of Photovoice and Soundscape methodologies as well as how to share and include these in existing programmes. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Theatre for Development training for performances |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | 15 (9 women and 6 men) people took part in a two-day training which involved introduction to gender-based violence, development of theatre script, practice and preparation for theatre performances that will be conducted in local secondary schools later in 2022. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Theatre performances in 3 schools |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | The 15 actors who were previously involved in developing scripts on gender-based violence and trained in acting performed the plays in 3 local secondary schools in Harar. An average of approximately 500-600 students as well as teachers saw the performances in each school. After each scene, students shared their thoughts and opinions about what they had seen. After the performance, team members shared information about the issue of gender-based violence and about the work that is taking place to address it. The schools and the local NGO are eager to continue the collaboration and some student representatives and teachers will be involved in the coming development of educational materials that will be distributed and used by these 3 schools. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Two 3-day workshops on gender-based violence in Harar, Ethiopia |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Two 3-day workshops were held simultaneously April 1-3 in Harar. The total number of attendants for the two groups was 48. The first group in which teachers and stakeholders were involved was conducted at FGAE- Harar CPD center training hall. They were invited from three secondary schools (Hamaresa SS, Harar SSS and Aboker Preparatory school), Harari Regional Health Bureau, Harari Regional Education Bureau, Harari Regional Women, Youth and Children Bureau and from FGAE. The second group included students and youth volunteers and was conducted at FGAE- EAO meeting Hall. They were invited from three secondary schools and FGAE Harar Youth Center. Both workshops led to discussion about gender roles and FGAE used an evaluation tool to assess the participants' changes in understanding of gender through the workshop and reported changes in their views as well as positive feedback and recognition of more effort in raising awareness about gender and different forms gender-based violence as currently only rape is considered as such. The participants will be invited to follow-up activities, such as theatre performances, photo exhibition and be involved in the development of educational materials. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | University of Abuja Academic Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | DEPA Nigeria conference - Sub themes: Peace Building, social justice and reparations. African knowledge systems. Presentations and discussions in the University of Abuja, Nigeria |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Validation workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | This final workshop was held to receive further input on the developed educational materials from other stakeholders. 18 people attended and the materials were very well received, and it was suggested that we scale up and distribute the materials to all primary and secondary schools in the Harari region (76 in total). The participants also suggested to include more pictures to make the design more attractive, and to include some case scenarios and activities for the students. They also encouraged us to arrange teacher trainings to make the most out of the materials. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Visits to Adonis and Abbey Publishers, Abuja |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | On two separate occasions, we visited and met with the Management of Adonis and Abbey, a reputable publishing company and discussed the possibility of their publishing our papers (harvested from the International Conference we organized earlier in the year) and other scholarly outputs from the DEPA Project. The meeting was quite fruitful. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Why Talk about Ubuntu for Warriors? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Professor Colin Chasi will give a lecture based on his recent book, Ubuntu for Warriors. His riveting book overturns commonly held epistemological premises of the philosophy of ubuntu. Chasi goes further to uncover and position ubuntu as a resource for counterhegemonic struggles. It is a must read not only for all those interested in taking African philosophy but also and especially for all those warriors involved in moving African epistemologies to the centre. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Workshop at the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Foundation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | We convened a workshop with trainers on the Change-Makers programme across African countries. Change-makers is a programme designed to use the history of the Holocaust to stimulate reflection amongst young people on the importance of fundamental human rights, and to encourage them to become active 'change-makers' in their local communities. The workshop worked with educational materials - case studies we have developed of historical atrocities across the African continent - to refine and further develop these materials for use in local contexts across a variety of countries. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/the-changemakers-south-africa/ |
Description | Workshop presented at the ANIE Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A workshop on developing a decolonial framework for education was showcase that the African Network for the Internationalisation of Education Conference was presented to Participants from over 10 African countries. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Zambia - Maamba Teachers Training |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | A teachers training workshop on Decolonising Education for Peace |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Zambia Train the Trainers |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Train the trainers with the training of regional teacher inspectors on the framework for decolonial education for peace. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | policy conference presentation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | I presented at a plenary session of the e-conference of the Institute for Global Negotiation (based in Switzerland). The panel speakers included a peace practitioner, an artist and myself, discussing the ways in which arts can be mobilised in contexts of violence and peace building. Speakers and audience were attending from all over the world. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://www.global-negotiation.org/e-conference |