Phase 2 Projects

As a Network Plus project, the DEPA project aims to create a network of partnerships across Africa between academics, NGOs and practitioners to address the question, what are the different knowledges and values underpinning peace and how can these practices be connected and compared to create curriculum content in order to decolonise peace education.

In Autumn 2021, the DEPA Project expanded to include 4 new projects, expanding the Network to Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya and Sierra Leone.  

These short-term projects are innovative in their approaches, which include:

• Empowering youth in protracted and acute conflict settings to participate in bringing about constructive change and the local level in Kenya
• Using ethnographic and storytelling methodologies while working with local teachers and school officials, youth and women’s groups, traditional/community leaders, religious/community organisations, artists and local individuals in Sierra Leone to identify conflict issues, investigate and document indigenous mechanisms, knowledge, skills and practices engaged to resolve, manage, serve as reminder, and/or neutralise conflict. 
• Capture lived experiences’ and examine Cameroon’s indigenous theories, objectives, practices, traditions, models and history of political order-making as an essential ingredient of peace and security to contribute to the decolonisation of security provision and peace education.
• Contribute to improve maternal and child health by offering young people opportunities to learn strategies to avoid violence in Ethiopia.