This article originally appeared in the Peacebuilding and the Arts Now January 2021 newsletter. “Art practices have their own uniqueness that evaluating themt becomes a dilemma.” “A lot of convincing needs to happen when we are thinking of doing evaluation and assessment in engaging arts and peacebuilding...convincing a different range of stakeholders who may have different w...

Preamble The quest for peace in Africa has become more complex now than ever before. Some world-renowned initiatives have been tracking through research, the advent, and trends of trade in small arms, improvised explosive devices, and light weapons. The war in Libya; the insurgence of non-state actors in Mali; the uprising in some regions of Ethiopia and the perpetual internal conflict in South Sudan; the radicalized extremist violence occurring in Nigeria, Cameroon, Somalia, and Kenya all depict that it has become easier to conduct actions th...

Rev.Dr. C.P.Anto the founder and director of Peace Channel, an emerging secular youth peace movement that aims at the transformation of the individuals and groups as peace lovers, peacemakers, and peace promoters in the conflict situations said that the movement had trained nearly twenty NEISSRians who completed MSW in our institute in peace studies have been trained and capacitated to introduce the new chapters in all the districts to empower the children, youth and adult to be the promoters of peace and trainers of peace in all conflict situations. They are also given some seed money to star...