By Rachel Bergen A-esha Afdal Ampatuan spent her early childhood on the run with her family. She grew up in a Muslim camp called Abubakar in Southern Philippines. Although a stronghold for the extremist group the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), for many years the camp enjoyed relative peace and independence from the Christian government….
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Creative Storytelling as a Tool for Transformation
For the first time at School of Peace, participants used puppets and dioramas to explain issues from their communities. In the third module, Hem Sopharak “Small” led a session on creative storytelling as a tool for transformation. The participants broke into groups and made their own puppets and dioramas to explain problems like colonization, trauma, reconciliation, and…