Integrating academic research and artistic practices to promote youth peacebuilding

Sarah Smith
Sarah Smith

Through examples from the YouthLEAD project in Colombia, funded by Changing the Story (CTS), as well as the learnings from across CTS' Latin America projects, Laura and Maria will share how co-produced research using artistic and participatory practices (including storytelling, mural painting, poetry and music) can be used to promote youth participation in peacebuilding, framed by the Developmental Peacebuilding Model.

A discussion will follow on how research, and particularly youth-led research, can advance the YPS agenda and the role of academic spaces and communities in supporting  and partnering with a new generation of researchers, scholars and practitioners.

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Two-way Spanish/English interpretation will be made available

 

María Fernanda Trujillo Santiago is a psychologist, graduated from the Konrad Lorenz University Foundation in Bogotá-Colombia. During her academic training, she has participated in different programs and projects of psychosocial research and socio-cultural processes related to peacebuilding in post-conflict contexts. She is currently working as a research intern during the development of the project Amplificando las Voces: Consolidation of Changing The Story projects in LatAm of the CTS program.

 

Laura K. Taylor (PhD) is a Lecturer in the School of Psychology, Queen’s University Belfast, and in the University College Dublin. She has a dual PhD in Psychology and Peace Studies from the University of Notre Dame (USA). Laura studies risk and resilience processes for children, families, and communities in settings of protracted conflict. Her work has implications for youth outcomes, such as aggression and prosocial behaviours, as well as broader psychosocial processes, such as shared education and intergroup relations, which may fuel or constrain conflict. Toward this end, she studies how and why violence affects behaviours and attitudes related to conflict transformation, primarily during childhood and adolescence. Laura is the Principal Investigator of the Phase 2 Colombia project ‘YouthLEAD.’