PhotoVoice as an educational tool for intercultural learning and peacebuilding between Forcefully Displaced Populations and Host community youth

全球强迫流离失所者的数量正在上升，其中大多数是低收入和中等收入国家，这可能加剧这些国家面临的经济和社会挑战，同时加剧强迫流离失所者和收容社区之间的紧张关系，因为他们必须共享稀缺的资源。减少冲突的努力主要集中在提供人道主义援助、职业培训和扩大提供福利服务，淡化了促进各群体之间的和平、对话和跨文化学习的重要性。该网络旨在应对这一挑战，将摄影作为一种教育工具，将摄影艺术品作为一种教学和学习资源，以评估摄影之声和视觉讲故事作为促进社区之间和平关系和促进流离失所者可持续融合的非正式学习平台的潜力。总体目标是了解视觉艺术和摄影培训如何在减少因性别、族裔、语言、性取向和国籍的交叉而造成的不平等以及通过南非、土耳其和乌干达的比较研究缓解建设和平方面的紧张局势方面发挥再分配作用。这些国家收容了数以百万计的难民。这些国家的联合体提供了一个丰富的多地点背景，以探讨摄影作为一种教育工具的作用，以及参与式方法作为建立和平文化、文化知识交流和文化间学习的非正式学习空间的作用。参与性和自下而上的方案可以促进国内流离失所者和东道国社区之间的能力建设、和解和社会变革，但出于经济方面的考虑，往往被忽视。该网络的中心目的是让研究人员、政策制定者、非政府组织、当地行为者、摄影师、从业人员、外籍人士和接待社区成员讨论以摄影和艺术为基础的参与性方法，为和平提供可通过政策和实践加强的非正式学习教育机会。该网络汇集了教育、摄影、冲突和强迫移民方面的专业知识。每个国家的共同申请者在与政策相关的研究方面都有良好的记录，并在国家和地区与学术和政策参与者建立了良好的网络。该网络将通过虚拟和面对面的混合方式进行互动。我们的假设是，在非正式环境中进行的艺术培训和活动可以用于社区建设，学会生活在一起可以为难民和收容社区的福利做出重要贡献。为了评估是否以及如何产生这种好处，以及采用这种方法的最佳视觉艺术做法是什么，共同申请者首先必须绘制现有的数据和文献图，以便更清楚地了解发展援助方案和东道国社区的动态，以及改进对话和参与性方法的方法。其结果将是利用视觉艺术作为媒介，学会共同生活，了解文化多样性，以及防止歧视和不平等的方法。我们将向GCRF和其他资助者开发一系列合作投标。该网络将通过以对话和摄影为基础的参与性行动研究以及学术和实践者网络进行创新，以满足国防军和东道国社区以及与他们接触的当地行为者的学习需要。从理论上讲，该网络认识到，视觉艺术是促进人类发展的有力工具，使人们具备必要的学习和能力，以获得超出创收范围的可持续生计资产。它还可以包括教育的非物质方面，例如：福利、支持和平建设、自我发展、平等、建立在尊重和平等基础上的社会关系以及有尊严生活的积极和消极自由。

Global numbers of Forcefully Displaced Persons (FDPs) is rising, with the majority being hosted by Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMIC), which can exacerbate the economic and social challenges these countries face while compounding tensions between FDPs and the host communities as they have to share scarce resources. Efforts to reduce conflict center largely on providing humanitarian aid, vocational training, and expanding the provision of welfare services, underplaying the importance of promoting peace, dialogue and intercultural learning between the groups. This network aims to address this challenge by using photography as an educational tool and photograph artefacts as a teaching and learning resource to evaluate the potential of photovoice and visual story telling as an informal learning platform for fostering peaceful relations between the communities and easing sustainable integration of FDPs. The overarching aim is to understand how visual arts and photography training can have a redistributive effect in reducing inequalities perpetuated by intersectionality of gender, ethnicity, language, sexuality, and nationality and in mitigating tensions for peace-building through comparative research in South Africa, Turkey and Uganda. These countries host millions of FDPs. The consortium of these countries provides an enriching multi-sited context to explore the role of photography as an educational tool and the participatory methodology as an informal learning space for establishing a culture of peace, exchange of cultural knowledge, and intercultural learning. The participatory and bottom up programs that could foster capacity building, reconciliation and societal transformation between FDPs and host communities are often ignored for the sake of economic concerns. The central aim of the network is to bring researchers, policy makers, NGOs, local actors, photographers, practitioners, FDPs and host community members to discuss photography and arts based participatory methods in providing an informal learning education opportunity for peace that could be enhanced through policy and practice. The network assembles expertise in education, photography, conflict and forced migration. The co-applicants in each country have a track record in policy-relevant research and are well networked nationally and regionally with academic, and policy actors. The network will interact through a mix of virtual and face-to-face means. Our hypothesis is that arts training and activities conducted in an informal setting can be used for community building, and learning to live together can make important contribution to the welfare of both FDPs and host communities. To assess whether and how such benefits may be occurring and what are the best visual arts practices of adopting such a methodology, the co-applicants first have to map existing data and literature in order to gain a much clearer picture of the dynamics of FDPs and host communities and ways of improving dialogue and participatory methodologies. The outcome will be the use of visual arts as a medium to learning to live together, understand cultural diversity, ways of preventing discrimination and inequalities. We will develop a series of collaborative bids to GCRF and other funders. The network will innovate by dialogue and photography based participatory action research and academic and practitioner networks to meet the learning needs FDPs and host communities as well as local actors who engage with them. Theoretically, the network recognizes that visual arts are a powerful tool for promoting human development, equipping people with necessary learning and capabilities to access sustainable livelihood assets that go beyond income generation. It can also include non-material aspects of education such as: well-being, support peace-building, self-development, equity, social relations based on respect and equality, and positive and negative freedoms for a life with dignity.