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Decolonising Peace Education in Africa

Decolonising Education for Peace in Africa

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"How not to know. Forgetting as an (a)vocation"

Aula Prodi, San Giovanni in Monte, 2, Bologna

On February 14, at 5 pm CET, Prof. Ann Laura Stoler 

AHRC-GCRF Network Plus End-of-Project Conference

- Online via Zoom

STRENGTHENING SOCIAL PROTECTION, SECURITY, AND WELFARE IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND

Performing Sites of Decolonial Entanglement: History, Politics, and Cultural Practices - Symposium

- The Historical Institute/School of Advanced Study, Senate House, Room 349, University of London, Malet St, London WC1E 7HU.

Join DEPA's Principal Investigator Parvati Raghuram on Day 2 of the Symposium where she will be in conversation at the roundtable with Nike Jonah and Rogério Meireles Pinto. 

Decolonising Education for Peace in Africa Project: Educating Through Arts End of Project Event

- Brixton House, 385 Coldharbour Lane, London SW9 8GL

The DEPA project team looks forward to a special celebration of our achievements and activities o

DEPA @ OpenMINDS Live 24 April 2024

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Join us for an Open University event filled with fascinating speakers and expert academics from across the University - OpenMinds Live. This event will bring to life just some of the stories in the OpenMinds magazine in an exciting live event.

The 10th International Conference on Carnival and Masquerade Arts

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This year's International Conference of Carnival and Masquerade Arts conference will be taking place at the School of Creative Arts, (SCA), University of Education, Winneba (UEW), Ghana.

Panel Webinar - Decolonising Education for Peace in Practice - 21 June

- Online

In the second of the new DEPA webinar series of panel discussions, we turn attention to the need to rethink and decolonise peace pedagogy and the way that peace is taught in the classroom but also beyond.

Refugee knowledge co-creators; negotiating power and research relations

- Online

DEPA (Decolonising Peace Education in Africa) webinar series aims to promote dialogue on diverse theoretical, conceptual, and methodological perspectives within Africa. Our next speaker is Maria Charlotte Rast.

Decolonising in Conversation Webinar Series

Online

Taking place on Thursday 2nd February this is the first in a new DEPA webinar series of panel discussions that will bring together a diverse range of project members with wider network allies and partners, forging conversations on different debates an aspects of DEPA's work.

Reframing humanising pedagogies as/with decolonising pedagogies

- Zoom

Reframing humanising pedagogies as/with decolonising pedagogies: Reflections on the implications for South African Higher Education. Michalinos Zembylas is our next speaker and will bring together pedagogies into conversation with humanising pedagogies.

Decolonising Education in Bourj Albarajenah: Cosmologies of a Palestinian Refugee Camp

- Online

Palestinian refugee communities today are facing great difficulty in expressing their knowledge through the Humanitarian-aid educational institutions. So how can Palestinian refugees decolonize their own educational process to provide their children with education that meets their needs, tells their story and responds to their unique livelihood? Yafa El Masri will be our 10th webinar speaker and will present her work on 15 September.

DEPA webinar Memes, humour and peace education in Rwanda

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Tuğçe Atacı will discuss how memes were created and used by Rwandan youth as a method for discussing post-genocide peacebuilding processes.

DEPA Phase 3 Grant Call Workshop - methodologies and decolonisation

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A workshop for those interested in applying for DEPA project funding. Focusing on Research Methodologies and Decolonisation

Conference Intersection of Decolonisation; Critical Peace Education and Social Justice in Nigeria

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The University of Abuja in collaboration with Open University UK and PADEAP Nigeria is organizing a 1-day conference, on 29 March 2022, examining the intersection of Decolonisation; Critical Peace Education, and social justice in Nigeria.

DEPA webinar How to Write Stories with a Stranger

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This next DEPA webinar will focus on Dr Eğrikavuk's collaborative performance works from different countries as well as her PhD project.

Grant Workshop Due Diligence, Finance and Processes - 25 March 2022

- Online

This is the second of three workshops for those interested in applying for DEPA Network project funding.

Grant application workshop - 22 March 2022

Online

This is the first of three workshops for those interested in applying for DEPA Network project funding.

DEPA Webinar Global Norm Translation in Local Transitional Spaces

Eliseo Huesca Jr's talk will review how globally-circulating norms have reconstructed, or otherwise, the normative orders in transitioning Musilim Mindanao.  Register via Eventbrite.

DEPA Webinar #ImaginingOtherwise: hope as a critical resistance

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On 28 October, Aylwyn Walsh will talk about her artistic engagement with artists and young people from Cape Town.

Nigeria - Peace Education and using drama in peace education work with children and youth.

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On Sunday 25 September, we will be holding a 1 day event for teachers, educators and volunteer groups working with youth and young people on:
Introduction to Peace Education and using drama to do peace education work with children and youth.

Peace education for justice and change, Abuja, Nigeria

Abuja, Nigeria

The DEPA project in Nigeria is hosting a special networking event on Tuesday 24 August, from 9am to 1pm. The event is being hosted by PADEAP and the University of Abuja.

Rethinking peace education in South Africa: through art and decolonization

- Online. Links to videos will be posted on 23 August

DEPA South Africa is hosting an online-decolonial-conference on the topical issues of decolonizing peace education in South Africa.

DEPA webinar, African Traditional Mechanisms of Conflict Resolution

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DEPA (Decolonising Peace Education in Africa) webinar series aims to promote dialogue on diverse theoretical, conceptual, and methodological perspectives within Africa. Our next speaker is Stella Sabiiti. 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.

Why Talk about Ubuntu for Warriors? DEPA webinar, 6th May

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Our next webinar will take place on 6 May and will see Professor Colin Chasi discuss his recent book, Ubuntu for Warriors.

DEPA Webinar Series

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The first webinar took place on Friday 29 January and saw Professor Lawrence Ogbo Ugwuanyi, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Abuja, Nigeria Decolonising Peace Education through African Philosophy, Thought and Culture.