Pas en Avant: Community Integration through Dance-Based Pedagogy in the Lake Chad Region

在学校被战争摧毁的社区，如何提供教学和学习？乍得湖冲突就是这个问题，影响到各国(包括尼日尔、尼日利亚、喀麦隆和乍得)的数百万儿童和妇女。乍得湖的退化和退化不仅在这些国家内部和之间造成经济、社会和政治不稳定，而且该区域出现恐怖主义好战，加剧了不安全。乍得湖地区的儿童被剥夺了受教育的权利，以便被用作强迫劳动、士兵或性奴。为当地难民人口提供解决办法的不仅仅是正规教育，特别是因为在乍得湖地区发现的联合国难民事务高级专员办事处的单一难民营中没有中学。可以自下而上地实施非正规教育，使社区能够通过当地的知识生产和分享形式，享受其社会和文化教育的人权。拟在选定的受益社区进行的培训和评估将确保NSN工作的长期连续性。在该地区实施以舞蹈为基础的教学法将极大地支持社区建设和社会稳定。该项目将由设在乍得的一个由社会艺术家和社区工作者组成的国际专家团队实施，并得到英国和邻国尼日利亚网络成员的支持。由于我们的主要合作伙伴和朋友泰格·艾哈迈德的家人在乍得湖，内政部允许我们进入这个目前军事化的区域。5月在恩贾梅纳举行的会议期间，我们就后勤、便利和安全问题与乍得人权高专办进行了磋商。我们得到保证，自2016年高级专员访问巴加索拉以来，联合国人权事务高级专员办事处的营地对国际媒体和研究人员来说是完全安全的，我们将采取非常有效的安全措施。为了为这次申办的筹备工作提供信息，我们与来自马罗和贝隆难民营(位于与中非共和国接壤的边界)的难民进行了为期一周的交流。这一活动是作为AHRC以前网络的一部分举行的，该网络为这项提议提供了支持。这次初步会议让我们明白了舞蹈改变该地区生活的非凡力量，并让我们有了发人深省的洞察。25名难民在酷热(高达47摄氏度)下乘坐18小时的巴士旅行，参加由艾哈迈德和他的社会艺术家团队领导的为期一周的舞蹈工作坊。当被问及为什么要做出如此非凡的努力时，难民们回答说：“舞蹈给了我们作为一个集体的力量和能量”，“否则我们就会孤单”。一名妇女说，通过舞蹈，难民社区可以集体表达他们的信息：“融合是有希望的”。那个女人，二十岁，和她四岁的女儿在一起。许多参与者遭受了面部和身体的肢解和创伤。看着他们笑，放松，专注和学习，这是很重要的。进行接触工作、按摩、信任练习、注意力和姿势工作，提醒我们舞蹈的力量，可以打破障碍，对生活在冲突中的人的身心生活产生真正的影响。至关重要的是，这项工作正在传递给在场的儿童，特别是考虑到查多之星协会成员提供的支持，他们应用NSN教学法来支持无家可归的儿童。NSN的“生命教育学”是一种独特的社会和文化学习模式。它实现了人道敏感、和平、社区建设和复原力。此外，考虑到与恩贾梅纳当地学校的密切联系，在Tchado-Stars的支持下，NSN支持将青年学习者纳入正规教育。该项目将确保NSN教学法在乍得及其他地区的长期可持续性和可复制性。

How can teaching and learning be delivered in communities where schools have been destroyed by war? This is precisely the problem in the case of the Lake Chad conflict, affecting millions of children and women in particular, across various countries (including Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad). Not only is the degradation and regression of Lake Chad generating economic, social and political instability in and between these countries; furthermore, insecurity has been aggravated by the emergence of terrorist militancy in the region. Children in the Lake Chad region have been deprived of their right to education in order to be used as forced labour, as soldiers, or as sex slaves. It is not only formal education that will provide a solution for the local refugee population, particularly since there is no secondary school in the single UNCHR camp found in the lake region of Chad. Non-formal education can be implemented bottom-up, so that communities can enjoy their human right to social and cultural education, through autochthonous forms of knowledge production and sharing. The proposed training and evaluation to be conducted in the chosen beneficiary communities will ensure long-term continuity of NSN's work. Implementation of dance-based pedagogy in the region will greatly support community building and social stabilisation. This project will be delivered by an expert international team of social artists and community workers based in Chad, with support from network members in the UK and in neighbouring Nigeria. Because our leading partner and friend Taigue Ahmed has family in the lake Chad, we have been granted access by the Ministry of Interior to this currently militarised zone. During meetings held in N'Djamena in May, we consulted UNCHR Chad (Nde Ndifonka) on the issue of logistics, facilitation and security. We have been assured that since the 2016 visit by the High Commissioner to Baga Sola, the UNCHR camp is completely safe for international media and researchers, and that very effective security measures will be in place for us. In order to inform the preparation of this bid, we held a weeklong exchange with refugees from Maro and Belom camps (located in the border with the Central African Republic). This event was held as part of the previous AHRC network that feeds this proposal. This preliminary meeting has illuminated us on, and given us a sobering insight into, the extraordinary power of dance to transform lives in the region. Twenty-five refugees made an eighteen-hour bus journey in the scorching heat (up to 47 C), to be part of a weeklong series of dance workshops led by Ahmed and his team of social artists. When asked why make such extraordinary effort, the refugees replied: "dance gives us strength and energy as a group"' "otherwise we are alone". One woman said that through dance, the refugee community can collectively express their message: "There is hope for integration". That woman, aged twenty, was attending with her four year-old. Many participants have suffered facial and body mutilation and trauma. To see them laugh, relax, focus and learn, is significant. To conduct contact work, massage, trust exercises, attention and posturing work, reminds us of the power of dance to break barriers and achieve real impact in the physical and mental lives of people living in conflict. Crucially, this work is being transmitted to the children present, especially given the support provided by members of Association Tchado-Stars, who apply NSN pedagogy to support homeless children. NSN's "pedagogy for life" is a unique model for social and cultural learning. It achieves humane sensitisation, peace, community building, and resilience. Moreover, with support from Tchado-Stars, NSN supports the integration of young learners within formal education, given strong links with local schools in N'Djamena. This project will ensure long term sustainability and replicability of NSN pedagogy in Chad and beyond.