Animation Highlights Need for Refugee Education and Durable Futures
In this new video, “An Agent of Change,” our colleagues from the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) teamed up with PositiveNegatives to convey the narratives of refugee students and teachers in the Dadaab refugee camps of Kenya.
This animation aims to tell the stories of real people whose experiences have been combined, anonymized, and now re-told to reach a larger audience. The story is based on research by Hassan Aden, a doctoral researcher at PRIO and PhD student at Gothenburg University.
An Agent of Change is an animation that conveys narratives of refugee students and teachers in Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya. Produced by PositiveNegatives.
“Education can rebuild lives, communities, even nations...But only with long-term investment, commitment & planning.”
Aden’s work is part of a larger project, Refugee Education: Building Durable Futures (REBuilD), a collaboration between PRIO and Harvard University. Project members include Refugee REACH’s director Sarah Dryden-Peterson of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and co-founder Vidur Chopra of Teachers College, Columbia University.
The consortium also includes the University of Nairobi in Kenya and the American University of Beirut in Lebanon, along with PositiveNegatives, who will produce interactive comics for use in classrooms around the world.