Culture for Sustainable and Inclusive Peace – Launch

The Culture for Sustainable and Inclusive Peace Network Plus (CUSP) is a consortium of 12 partners working across 6 countries. Our research, split into three strands, will propel us to achieve two collective aims:

1. Strengthening LMIC arts and cultural institutions/organisations to become a reference point for the identification and transformation of social conflict, including gender-based violence, coercion and injustice.
2. Ensuring equal participation of women and girls, including in leadership roles, in artistic and cultural work for peacebuilding, whilst attending to environmental justice.

Our launch event will look at CUSP’s research, introduce the team and look ahead to future research and plans.

This event will take place over zoom, if you would like to attend please register here.

Launch agenda

14:00 – Introduction to CUSP

14:20 – CUSP partners and our work packages: Occupied Palestinian Territories, Ghana, Morocco

14:35 – CUSP Literature Review & Panel Discussion

14:55 – CUSP partners and our work packages: Zimbabwe, Mexico, UK

15:10 – Interval

15:20 – Performances from:

              NOYAM African Dance Institute

              Ignite Theatre Group

15:30 – Showcase of CUSP literary work including,

              Gaza Writes Back

             The Little Book of Cultural Justice

15:45 – Small Grant Experience – Changing the Story

15:55 – CUSP small grants: launch & introduction

16:15 – Thanks

16:30 – End

The Culture for Sustainable and Inclusive Peace is funded via UK Research and Innovation as part of the Global Challenges Research Fund