Dr. Camilo Sol Inti Soler Caicedo

Camilo Soler Caicedo is an Anthropologist and Dancer with a vast amount of experience working in conflict/post-conflict contexts using arts-based research methods.

He has worked in several collaborative research projects with large organisations such as NERC/Loughborough University, the Goethe Institute, King’s College London, Colombia’s Ministry of the Interior (via the National Indigenous Organisation), and with communities as diverse as artists in West Africa and Latin America, culturally threatened indigenous groups in the Amazon, gang members in marginal urban areas, and dancers of popular Latin dance.

Professor Ananda Breed is author of Performing the Nation: Genocide, Justice, Reconciliation (Seagull Books, 2014), co-editor of Performance and Civic Engagement (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance: Volume One – Mainland Europe, North and Latin America, South Africa, and Australia and New Zealand (Routledge, 2020), co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance: Volume Two – Brazil, West Africa, South Asia, South East Asia, United Kingdom and Arab World (Routledge, 2020), and co-editor of Creating Culture in (Post) Socialist Central Asia (Palgrave, 2020) in addition to several publications that address transitional systems of governance and the arts. 

She has worked as a consultant for IREX and UNICEF in Kyrgyzstan on issues concerning conflict prevention and conducted applied arts workshops in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Indonesia, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, Palestine, Rwanda and Turkey. Breed was founder of the Centre for Performing Arts Development (CPAD) at the University of East London and former research fellow at the International Research Centre Interweaving Performance Cultures at Freie University 2013-2014). 

She is currently Prinicipal Investigator of Arts and Humanities (AHRC) Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) project Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP): Informing the National Curriculum and Youth Policy for Peacebuilding in Kyrgyzstan, Rwanda, Indonesia and Nepal (2020-2024) and former Co-Investigator of AHRC GCRF project Changing the Story (2018-2022) and former Principal Investigator of UKRI GCRF Newton Fund project MAP at Home: online psychosocial support through the arts in Rwanda (2020-2022). She loves nature and likes running, walking, dancing and playing with others. 

Dr Koula Charitonos is a Senior Lecturer in Learning + Technology at the Open University UK. Koula is concerned with understanding aspects of human learning supported by technology in ways that contribute to projects of educational justice. To this end, her work focuses on the study of knowledge work in professional settings and on participatory methods in the design and development of technology, as well as on pedagogical practices across formal and informal settings. Koula maintains a strong interest in education in crisis contexts, particularly in the provision of digital education in conflict and protracted crises and the role of education in promoting peace. Koula’s work foregrounds that educational spaces and practices can be transformative and have capacity to help create more just futures. (https://iet.open.ac.uk/people/koula.charitonos

Related Projects:

1. PhotoVoice as an educational tool for intercultural learning and peacebuilding between Forcefully Displaced Populations and Host community youth

http://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/upmprojects/photovoice-as-an-educational-tool-for-intercultural-learning-and-peacebuilding-between-forcefully-displaced-populations-and-host-community-youth(92000aad-8db5-49bf-9180-eb9478cf97e3).html

1. EDiCT project Empathy Dynamics in Conflict Transformation

https://edict.weebly.com/

http://wels.open.ac.uk/research/centres/creet/research-themes/languages-and-applied-linguistics/completed-projects/edict