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"I Am Iraq"

Poetry is used as resistance to war and to cry for peace in conflicts from Columbia to Iraq, as is seen in the 16th International Poetry Festival of Medellín. (Constanza Vieira, IPS News, 7 July 2006)

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=33895

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Amani Peoples Theatre (APT) - Kenya

APT is an organisation that brings together volunteer trainers to use their talents, skills, and experiences to employ interactive participatory theatre for conflict transformation, peace-building, and development in Kenya. The APT process integrates education, entertainment, and research in exploring context-specific issues related to conflict and development and enhancing the community's search for creative, non-violent responses.

http://www.aptkenya.org/

(Added: Tue Apr 29 2008   Hits: 27)

Art 4 Development Website

Art 4 Development is an organisation that explores capacity building through artistic endeavours.

http://www.art4development.net/

(Added: Wed Nov 28 2007   Hits: 42)

Dramatool--Drama for Social Change Website

Launched in 2002, Dramatool is a web-based platform for those who are interested in using drama for social change. (Soul Beat, 13/1/08)

http://www.dramatool.org/

(Added: Mon Jan 14 2008   Hits: 55)

Drishti: Media, arts, human rights

Drishti is a leading human rights and development organization that uses media, communications and the arts to strengthen India's social movements and organizations, in order to extend their reach and to increase the participation of marginalized communities.

http://www.drishtimedia.org/

(Added: Wed Nov 28 2007   Hits: 29)

Facilitation manual for Timor-Leste: transformative arts and human rights education guide [pdf]

Through the combination of artistic expression, conflict resolution techniques and human rights training this manual aims to facilitate peace building and human rights education for both children and adults. The bilingual text and wide scope of the manual allows for ease of use and modification for varying contexts (Ba Futuru Publication, 2007).

http://bafuturu.homestead.com/TAHREguide_Adult_Web_Version.pdf

(Added: Fri Apr 18 2008   Hits: 79)

Freedom of Speech? Poet Silenced!

A teacher is suspended and students interrogated after an anti-war poem is read at a US high school - a sobering look at the state of free speech. (Green Left Weekly, 14/4/2003)

http://scarletjewels.com/newslog2.php/__show_article/_a000148-000079.htm

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International Pen Website

International PEN, the worldwide association of writers with 145 Centres in 104 Countries, exists to promote friendship and intellectual co-operation among writers everywhere, to fight for freedom of expression and represent the conscience of world literature.

http://www.internationalpen.org.uk/

(Added: Wed Nov 28 2007   Hits: 26)

Never Again - Rwanda

Launched in 2002, Never Again Rwanda works to sensitise and engage young Rwandans about peace through creative education such as theatre, music, dance and sports in school clubs.

http://www.neveragainrwanda.org/

(Added: Thu Dec 06 2007   Hits: 35)

Poems from Guatanamo: Detainees Speak

Highlights the legal struggle to publish poems from Guatanamo inmates, with soundbites to the poems and links to relevant human rights organisations.

http://www.uipress.uiowa.edu/books/2007-fall/falpoefro.html

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Poetry and War teaching resource

A teaching resource for human rights and conflict poetry, from the Peace Pledge Union Project.

http://www.ppu.org.uk/learn/poetry/

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Poetry Saves: War and Peace Poems

Collection of war and peace poems and discussion from the online journal 'Inquiring Mind'(Inquiring Mind, 2007)

http://www.inquiringmind.com/Articles/PoetrySaves.html

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Poets for Human Rights Website

Web community for poets and readers to share poems, ideas and actions on human rights.

http://www.poetsforhumanrights.org/

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Power of culture - art development website

Website that explores art and organisations using art as a means of bringing about social change.

http://www.powerofculture.nl/en/theme/art_development.html

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SEKA-Sensitisation and Education through Kunda Arts

Sensitisation and Education through Kunda Arts (Seka) is a Zambian non-governmental organisation (NGO), based in the South Luangwa National Park in Zambia. It uses a strategy combining action research and participatory theatre to sensitise and educate communities on various social and environmental issues.

http://www.seka-educational-theatre.com/index.htm

(Added: Fri Nov 30 2007   Hits: 45)

Soul City Instutute for Health and Development Communication

The Soul City Institute for Health and Development Communication (SC IHDC) is a social change project which aims to impact on society at the individual, community and socio-political levels. SC IHDC is South Africa's premier edutainment project.

http://www.soulcity.org.za/about-us/institute-for-health-development/

(Added: Tue Feb 19 2008   Hits: 39)

The business of poetry

Poets will become a key to unlocking culture meaning, building relationships and developing leaders, says Mandy de Waal who looks at the rising phenomenon of poetry in business.

http://www.bizcommunity.com/PressOffice/PressRelease.aspx?i=572&ai=9575

(Added: Wed Nov 28 2007   Hits: 29)

Time to tell the truth

In his film 'Living with Aids', television journalist Sorious Samura confronted Zambian men who said they could see no point in wearing a condom once they had HIV. He described a culture of sexual recklessness internalised in childhood and cited his own experience growing up in Sierra Leone, where he became sexually active at the age of seven and had unprotected intercourse with multiple partners. In this article he argues that the western media are too scared to tell the truth about Africa and its Aids epidemic, due to post-imperial guilt and political correctness among a liberal white intelligentsia who dominate newsrooms. (David Smith, Guardian Weekly, June 2006)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianweekly/outlook/story/0,,1802810,00.html

(Added: Mon Jun 26 2006   Modified: Thu Jan 25 2007   Hits: 187)

What the warming world needs now is art, sweet art

We are living through the biggest thing that's happened since human civilization emerged: climate change. But oddly, though we know about it, we don't know about it. It hasn't registered in our gut; it isn't part of our culture. Where are the books? The poems? The plays? Art, like religion, is one of the ways we digest what is happening to us, make the sense out of it that proceeds to action. Otherwise, the only role left to us -- noble, but also enraging in its impotence -- is simply to pay witness. (Bil McKisbben, Grist, 21 April 2005)

http://www.grist.org/comments/soapbox/2005/04/21/mckibben-imagine/

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