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Peace education through storytelling: social reconciliation and intercultural dialogue among children in Southern Thailand
conference contribution
posted on 2023-05-23, 08:31 authored by Anjarwati, EThe study addresses the use of storytelling as a vehicle for the transformative learning of peace education aimed at promoting reconciliation and intercultural dialogue between children of Thai-Buddhists and Malay-Muslims in Southern Thailand. Senehi (2002) argues that storytelling is an instrument for socialisation and education that is the key to conflict resolution and peace building, to motivate people to undergo a self-transformation. Through interviews and focus group as well as art workshops with children of the conflicting parties, this case study demonstrates that peace education through storytelling can raise critical awareness about the system of government oppression and encourages intercultural dialogue with a child from the other group as a form of truth-telling contributing to the development of cultures of peace. Storytelling is, therefore, an apparatus for conflict transformation and an act of art leading toward social change through nonviolent means.
History
Publication title
Papers presented at the International Conference on Children and Youth affected by Armed Conflict: Where to go from herePagination
13-28Department/School
Faculty of EducationPublisher
Centre for children in vulnerable situations, HollandPlace of publication
HollandEvent title
International Conference on Children and Youth affected by Armed Conflict: Where to go from hereEvent Venue
Speke Resort, MunyonyoDate of Event (Start Date)
2013-09-25Date of Event (End Date)
2013-09-27Rights statement
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