STOP SCROLLING: 🏆 GOLD UNLOCKED (Again), New Voices Reporting about Post-War Recovery & Your future in Action.
A4R 🎨 Monthly - a GenZ co creation.
Ciao Trailblazers,
How are your plans for halloween coming along? What are your plans? Feel free to tag us in with your costumes and posts - happy to re post your fun experiences with the others here.
Over here we have been working on some fun stuff as well. But, before we go there some really exciting news for you. Oxford University Career Services awarded us their highest award - Gold - for the vocational training internships we organise with them. This was the third year in a row we received this award. Turns out the students love working with us as well. The next round of interns will be joining us in December.
So, coming back to planet earth. Our next round of Citizen Journalist have started their training with us to provide you with more interesting podcasts and articles about how communities rebuilding themselves after the war is over are coping. We accepted 20 students from War Studies Department, King’s College, London. They kicked off the vocational training with us last Thursday. They cover topics and issues they learn during their courses to support you to understand what people go through when trying to rebuild their lives afterwards. Look forward to sharing their citizen journalism articles and podcasts with you.
Our volunteers Nicole and Kaiwan are doing well. They are learning how to create content using GenAi along with homing in their digital marketing skills. So, if you notice differences in our social posts - you know why!
Our Sponsor for the month
Impact Entrepreneur are creating and providing the infrastructure to grow the impact economy. They are also building a global community of Impact Fluent Writers, Journalists and Visual Story Tellers. You can discover more here.
What happens when the war ends podcasts this month
You can listen and read these stories here. Take your pick and share the ones you enjoyed the most!
Play the stories that changed the world from last month
You can play these stories here. Take your pick and share the ones you enjoyed the most!
Gaming Art NFT of the month 🎨
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Global Dialogue Corner -
Finally, moving into November. The COP30 Youth Dialogues is a 2 day virtual event for you to discuss climate change and other similar topics. You also receive a certificate of completion at the end.
🎧 Top 3 Picks + Why They Fit this event -
1. The Hidden War: The Silent Epidemic of Gender-Based Violence (Raw & Real with Abi)
Link: “The Hidden War: The Silent Epidemic of Gender-Based Violence” arts4refugees.com
Why it fits:
Timely & urgent issue — gender-based violence (GBV) is a growing topic among Gen Z (in the UK, US, globally). This episode brings post-conflict contexts into conversation with everyday realities.
Personalized storytelling — it’s not just statistics; it uses narrative to make listeners empathize and reflect. That helps generate deeper dialogue in workshops or breakout sessions.
Cross-cutting themes — connects conflict, gender, power, legal structures, social norms. So participants from many interest areas (policy, activism, art, mental health) can engage.
2. Scars of War: How Trauma Still Holds Bosnia Back (Raw & Real with Venus)
Link: “Scars of War: How Trauma Still Holds Bosnia Back” arts4refugees.com
Why it fits:
Long-term impact & intergenerational trauma — many young people care deeply about mental health, healing, and how history shapes the present. This piece gives a tangible example of how trauma lingers decades after conflict.
Bridges macro / micro — it shows how national healing (institutions, memory, narrative) interacts with individuals’ lives (families, communities). Dialogue events often need that layered lens.
Culturally rich narration — uses stories from Bosnia that enable participants to draw connections to their own settings or histories (e.g., racial, social, diaspora trauma).
3. Can Art Bridge the Divide? The Northern Ireland Story (Raw & Real with Rachael)
Link: “Can Art Bridge the Divide? The Northern Ireland Story” arts4refugees.com
Why it fits:
Youth / culture / reconciliation nexus — this episode shows how public art has been used as a tool for reconciliation and expression in a divided society. This appeals strongly to Gen Z (who often value creative and non-traditional activism).
Local / accessible metaphor — the British / UK context gives a bridge (literally and figuratively) that UK audiences may connect more immediately to; US participants too can map it to murals, public art, protest art.
Actionable lens — we can ask: How can art, aesthetics, culture be part of dialogue and healing? It offers a creative engagement route rather than just policy talk.
It’s great to have you with us along this journey. You can support our work by “donating us coffee”. More here.
This is a simple way to keep us going — nothing like a dose of caffeine to boost your day! Till next month — enjoy your coffee along the way and don’t forget to tell you friends about us 😊
With gratitude,
Zufi, KaiWen, Nicole & Michael.
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