overloaded. I'm struggling to keep the website going since losing
Senim, and I've yet to secure any volunteers or staff to help the
newspaper mapping going, and i have many more ideas for expanding it
as an information source on land issues in Cambodia. I'm thinking to
rebrand it as a collaborative mapping project on land and natural
resource issues. I have begun adding pages on information of at-risk
communities. This is a massive undertaking, especially to keep it up
to date. Anyhow, there is still a lot of positive responses to the
site so I am considering options for volunteers and / or paid staff to
assist. But that will get expensive and i have limited funds
available.
The next project to begin bubbling away inside my head, and which I
have been promoting a lot lately, is what i currently refer to as the
nonviolent story project - peace by peaceful means, through epidemic
story-telling. The basic idea is that story-telling is a powerful
medium for communicating information on many different levels, and
importantly helping people to process that information more than if
they receive straight content.
I now have two short papers written on the theme of story as
nonviolent resistance. I will post them soon.
The first nonviolent story-telling project is underway, interviewing
former Dey Krahom residents about their experience.
In my papers i talk a lot about the processing that stories can
facilitate. I now need to research and develop a concrete plan to make
that happen. Just telling stories won't always ensure a
process-oriented learning cycle will occur. And sometimes all that is
realistic is the telling. So flexibility is a requirement.
Ultimately, story-telling should encourage a horizontal learning
environment. How do i support that without accidentally falling into a
heirarchical, hence vertical, learning environment?
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