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

如何在学校被战争摧毁的社区开展教学？这正是乍得湖冲突所面临的问题，特别是影响到各国（包括尼日尔、尼日利亚、喀麦隆和乍得）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国家之间造成经济、社会和政治不稳定；此外，该区域恐怖主义好战主义的出现加剧了不安全状况。乍得湖地区的儿童被剥夺了受教育的权利，被用作强迫劳动、当兵或性奴隶。不仅正规教育将为当地难民人口提供解决办法，特别是因为在乍得湖区发现的唯一一个难民专员办事处营地没有中学。非正规教育可以自下而上地实施，使社区能够通过本土形式的知识生产和分享，享受其社会和文化教育的人权。拟议在选定的受益社区进行的培训和评价将确保诺西网络工作的长期连续性。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。该项目将由乍得的社会艺术家和社区工作者组成的国际专家团队提供，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，我们得到了内政部的许可，可以进入这个目前处于军事化状态的地区。在5月在恩贾梅纳举行的会议期间，我们就后勤、便利和安全问题与联合国难民署乍得办事处（Nde Ndifonka）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，联合国难民署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。为了向这次申办的筹备工作提供信息，我们与马罗和贝隆难民营（位于中非共和国边界）的难民进行了为期一周的交流。该活动是先前AHRC网络的一部分，该网络提供了该提案。这次初步的会面照亮了我们，并让我们清醒地认识到，舞蹈改变这个地区生活的非凡力量。25名难民冒着酷暑（高达47摄氏度）坐了18个小时的巴士，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系列舞蹈工作坊。当被问及为什么要如此努力时，难民们回答说：“舞蹈给了我们作为一个群体的力量和能量”，“否则我们就孤独了”。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”。那个二十岁的女人带着她四岁的孩子来参加。许多参与者的面部和身体都遭到了残害和创伤。看到他们笑、放松、专注和学习，意义重大。进行接触工作，按摩，信任练习，注意和姿势工作，提醒我们舞蹈的力量，打破障碍，实现真正的影响，在人们的身心生活冲突。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Tchado-Stars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。诺西的“终身教学法”是一种独特的社会文化学习模式。它实现了人道敏感、和平、社区建设和复原力。此外，通过与恩贾梅纳当地学校的紧密联系，在Tchado-Stars的支持下，诺西支持年轻学习者融入正规教育。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.