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DEPA - Nigeria Peace Clubs

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The aim of the peace clubs was to encourage secondary school students to explore the meanings of peace, conflict and conflict resolution, starting with their immediate personal and interpersonal circumstances. This then provided a basis from which they explored national and international dimensions of peace. The purpose of this structure was to encourage independent thinking around the notions of peace and conflict, and to use their own experiences as a basis to address challenges of peace and conflict.

The peace clubs were implemented in four schools – two state schools and two IDP accelerated learning hubs. Teachers from each school ran the peace clubs as a weekly extra-curricular activity, with students volunteering to attend. As part of this initiative, elders from New Kuchinguru Camp did a presentation of traditional Glavda songs and dances (with explanations), which carried personal and communal moral lessons about how to live and how to treat others. This enabled the elders to share traditional knowledge with students who had limited exposure to it.

The 9 files in this item are interviews – five interviews of elders who collaborated and participated in the peace clubs, and four teachers who were involved in the peace clubs in the accelerated learning hubs. The interviews collect impressions and reflections from both the elders and the teachers on the value of the peace clubs, and its potential as a vehicle for intergenerational sharing.

The Nigeria Project was one of the original Proof of Concept projects with DEPA (Decolonising Education for Peace in Africa). DEPA was a 4 year project funded by the Arts and Humanities Council (AHRC) addressing the question: What are the different knowledges and values underpinning peace and how can these practices be connected and compared across countries to create curriculum content and mode of delivery in informal and formal settings, Secondary and Higher Education (HE), in order to decolonise peace education?

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Decolonising Peace Education In Africa

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

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