This book was edited and led by Prof. Dr. Zam Askandar of the Southeast Asia Conflict Studies Network (SEACSN), part of the Regional Steering Group members in Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict – Southeast Asia (GPPAC-SEA).

This project, animated by Strengthening Human Rights and Peace Research and Education in ASEAN/Southeast Asia (SHAPE-SEA), SEACSN, and AUN-Human Rights Education (AUN-HRE), runs parallel to, builds on, and strengthens the current efforts in GPPAC-SEA in the past years to develop practitioners' training modules and capacity development program on conflict transformation in Southeast Asia. The content of this book not only draws from the academic work of scholars but lived experiences of practitioners, civil society, and community peacebuilders who are working 24/7 on building on existing local capacities for peace and on transforming the roots of conflicts across the region.

This book was inspired by the Women Peace Makers (WPM) 2020 intervention that explored history from a young person’s perspective in an inter-ethnic setting in Cambodia. That gathering demonstrated that the past deeply affects who we are today and how we interact with others and with ourselves. The 1975-1979 genocide and the following decades of civil wars, in particular, have shaped a society scarred by trauma, warfare, and survival, while the educational system was in a complete collapse.

This book offers a brief overview of concepts of peacebuilding while introducing teachers and learners to the various tools and types of interventions utilized in the field that are culturally responsive to the Southeast Asia context and demonstrate the complex nature of peacebuilding. It is meant to co-create spaces that support meaningful and challenging dialogue, as well as hopeful and transformational spaces. The book has two overall objectives:

1) To explain theoretical aspects that support nonviolence and peacebuilding.
2) To show how theory is applied in practice in a SE Asia context.

This multidisciplinary collection of essays examines peacebuilding through a variety of ways of knowing. Each chapter is structured in the same way. It grounds itself in a Cambodian quote or proverb that sets the tone for that chapter. Each chapter starts with theory, states the purpose of the chapter, and highlights 2-3 points. Then the chapter moves the theory into practice within a SE Asian context describing the situation or scenario that supports the topic, as it offers a description of the thoughts and feelings of communities. Lastly, it details what actions were made to support the topic or resolve the situation.

(https://wpmcambodia.org/project/peacebuilding-practice-a-textbook-for-practitioners/)

Simba and Dembi is a comic booklet against the hate speech, intolerance, radicalisation and violence among young Africans.

The author, Cedric Kenfack Tiogo Joya, is a young Cameroonian Artist, Cartoonist and Creative Designer, Social Entrepreneur for Peace. Since 2008, Cedric has been using cartoons to educate against the hate speech, intolerance, radicalization and violence among the youth in Africa.