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Strengthening everyday peace formation via community development in Myanmar's Rohingya-Rakhine conflict

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posted on 2020-01-01, 00:00 authored by Anthony WareAnthony Ware, Vicki WareVicki Ware
Community development (CD) and peacebuilding must work hand in hand to address the poverty-conflict nexus. This chapter explores GraceWorks Myanmar’s community development education programme, which adopts a participatory arts-based pedagogy to attempt to strengthen everyday peace formation within an ongoing CD programme in Rakhine State, Myanmar. Rakhine is the poorest part of the country and embroiled in intractable conflict and recent ethnic cleansing. The chapter considers key theoretical foundations of the programme, and evidence that it has given rise to new critical-awareness of conflict dynamics, leading to greater empathy, new sense of identity, and strengthened empowerment to advance everyday peace formation, even in such a deeply divided context.

History

Chapter number

17

Pagination

247-261

ISBN-13

9780367027643

ISBN-10

036702764X

Language

eng

Publication classification

B1 Book chapter

Extent

22

Editor/Contributor(s)

Crisp B, Taket A

Publisher

Routledge

Place of publication

Abingdon, Vic.

Title of book

Sustaining social inclusion