Creating alternative futures through storytelling: A case study from Serbia

Milojević, Ivana; Izgarjan, Aleksandra

doi:10.1016/j.futures.2013.12.001

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“…There are many tools and approaches for working with the future (Van der Heijden 2005, Miller 2011, Hodgson 2012, Mahony 2014, Milojević and Izgarjan 2014, Videira et al 2014. They can broadly be classified according to how they deal with agency and uncertainty (Fig.…”

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Three horizons: a pathways practice for transformation

Sharpe¹,

Hodgson²,

Leicester³

et al. 2016

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ABSTRACT. Global environmental change requires responses that involve marked or qualitative changes in individuals, institutions, societies, and cultures. Yet, while there has been considerable effort to develop theory about such processes, there has been limited research on practices for facilitating transformative change. We present a novel pathways approach called Three Horizons that helps participants work with complex and intractable problems and uncertain futures. The approach is important for helping groups work with uncertainty while also generating agency in ways not always addressed by existing futures approaches. We explain how the approach uses a simple framework for structured and guided dialogue around different patterns of change by using examples. We then discuss some of the key characteristics of the practice that facilitators and participants have found to be useful. This includes (1) providing a simple structure for working with complexity, (2) helping develop future consciousness (an awareness of the future potential in the present moment), (3) helping distinguish between incremental and transformative change, (4) making explicit the processes of power and patterns of renewal, (5) enabling the exploration of how to manage transitions, and (6) providing a framework for dialogue among actors with different mindsets. The complementarity of Three Horizons to other approaches (e.g., scenario planning, dilemma thinking) is then discussed. Overall, we highlight that there is a need for much greater attention to researching practices of transformation in ways that bridge different kinds of knowledge, including episteme and phronesis. Achieving this will itself require changes to contemporary systems of knowledge production. The practice of Three Horizons could be a useful way to explore how such transformations in knowledge production and use could be achieved.

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Section: The Need For New Approaches To Facilitate Transformationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Three horizons: a pathways practice for transformation

Sharpe¹,

Hodgson²,

Leicester³

et al. 2016

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204

159

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“…However, Duryea and Potts ( 1993 ) argued that the usefulness of culturally specifi c stories and legends for confl ict resolution should be recognized. Th e Storytelling for Peace, Gender Partnership and Cultural Pluralism project in Serbia provides an example of the use of alternative storytelling as an educational strategy by critically analyzing and reconstructing traditional cultural stories (e.g., folk tales) in ways that promote tolerance, equality, and nonviolence (Milojevic and Izgarjan 2014 ). With exceptions like the Serbia project, few research projects have explored the use of cultural stories, such as the Confl ict Family, in the peacebuilding process.…”

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The Conflict Family: Storytelling as an Activity and a Method for Locally Led, Community‐Based Peacebuilding

Linabary

Krishna

Connaughton

2016

Conflict Resolution Qtrly

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Researchers and practitioners are beginning to look to community-based participatory research ( CBPR ) approaches in their eff orts to address social problems with those directly aff ected by them. Yet additional methods and tools are needed. In this article, we propose storytelling as a participatory method in the context of peacebuilding. Drawing on the Confl ict Family, an example of cultural storytelling from a locally led peacebuilding initiative in Ghana, we illustrate the ways in which storytelling emerged as a co-constructed, culturally relevant, collaborative, refl exive, and memorable participatory strategy that functioned as a catalyst for action. Storytelling helped create a dialogic space for participants to discuss land disputes in their communities. Th is study contributes to what is known about storytelling by showcasing how cultural storytelling can promote local citizens' ownership for CBPR approaches. It also reveals the ways storytelling can serve as a CBPR method that encourages a relational orientation and the co-construction of meaning, as well as inspire transformation among local citizens, particularly in confl ict situations and peacebuilding contexts.

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“…Storytelling is used as main communication tools to start a peace dialogue. In many conflict contexts, storytelling is widely used in early education phase where children are being introduced to an alternative reality [than the conflicted one] while integrating peace values of finding shared reality instead of highlighting differences that is keeping groups segregated (Senehi, 2002;Chongruksa, Prinyapol, Wadeng, & Padungpong, 2010;Milojević & Izgarjan, 2014). Indonesia is currently not in a somewhat conflict context yet, but the potential is there.…”

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Project CERITA – A Peacebuilding Initiative through Storytelling

Wulandari

2019

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The rising intolerance in Indonesia is spiking and has become more confounding due to the heated political temperature following series of recent national elections. Religious identity is politicized in a magnitude that escalates religious fundamentalism and consequently, intolerance. Past research shown how personal uncertainty enable individuals to find closure through firm beliefs and ideologies. This article is aimed to understand how religious intolerance function as a coping mechanism towards perceived threats of challenged worldviews, and how it potentially strengthened when supported collectively. The paper aim to focus on efforts made in the area of promotion of tolerance and inclusivity, understanding the complexity of identity helps peacebuilding initiatives to manage religious intolerance. The paper will then highlight Project CERITA (Community Empowerment for Raising Inclusivity and Trust through Technology Application), a peacebuilding program initiated by The Habibie Center that conducted storytelling and dialog facilitation workshop in six cities in Indonesia to promote peace and counter religious intolerance.

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Creating alternative futures through storytelling: A case study from Serbia

Cited by 23 publications

References 20 publications

Three horizons: a pathways practice for transformation

Three horizons: a pathways practice for transformation

The Conflict Family: Storytelling as an Activity and a Method for Locally Led, Community‐Based Peacebuilding

Project CERITA – A Peacebuilding Initiative through Storytelling

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