Andreana Drencheva is the Principal Investigator of the Phase 2 ECR project Youth-led Social Enterprises in Malaysia and Large Grant project Building Inclusive and Sustainable Civil Society (Cambodia and Malaysia). Under various labels, participatory methods are seen as new ways to create inclusive platforms for diverse voices, to access research...
Children from 10 years of age and young people up to 18 from all over Rwanda have spent a week in participatory arts activities, and will return home with supportive adults, empowered and equipped to lead community-based conflict-resolution activities through school clubs and theatre tours. Trainers have been looking into:...
A University of Leeds-led project to consolidate, embed and expand the learning from Changing the Story’s Phase One project The Changemakers (South Africa) to new and existing contexts across Africa has been awarded Quality-related research funding by Research England. Developing Youth Leadership for More Peaceful and Inclusive Societies in Post-Conflict...
El Programa de Estudios Críticos de las Transiciones Políticas (PECT) invita organizaciones y/o colectivos sociales, universidades, grupos de investigación o centro de estudios independientes, entidades del Estado, empresa privada y público en general, a presentar propuestas para el 3er Encuentro de Estudios Críticos de las Transiciones Políticas (PECT 3) La...
This post is a rework of the MAP newsletter (May 2019). MAP is a practice-as-research project supported by the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) as part of a larger project entitled Changing the Story: Building Inclusive Societies with and for Young People in 5...
In Colombia on a recent visit as a Co-Investigator for Changing the Story in 2018, I learned the government narrative is shifting from the narrative of peace and transition[1] to a narrative which foregrounds resilience, stabilisation and growth. The implications of different discourses could seem trivial, yet are critical when...
Kwibuka translates in Kinyarwanda as “to remember”. April 2019 marks 25 years since the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda. The 7th–14th April 2019 was a national week of mourning, and the remembrance period lasts until the 4th July. More information may be found on the official Kwibuka25 website....
The role of arts for peacebuilding initiatives has influenced major research and civil society organisations both nationally and internationally. Some of the benefits of arts-based approaches includes the opportunity to create innovative approaches for community dialogue alongside the development of skill building in the performing arts more generally. Mobile Arts...
The GCRF is a strange beast—it’s both a conventional research fund focussed on ‘excellent science’ and a distinctly unconventional development fund, part of the UK Government’s ODA commitment and helping to achieve the UK AID Strategy. it would be fair to say that this dual focus sometimes creates tension. Some...
Kicking off ‘Changing the Story’ in Kosovo Kick-off Workshop The Kosovo strand of “Changing the Story” kicked off the phase I project called “ACT – Arts, critical thinking & active citizenship” with a workshop bringing together artists, academics and activists from Kosovo and the UK. The workshop, organized by the University...