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Cultural Arts: The Gateway to Healing for Urban Youth in Post-Conflict Liberia
Heley, Kay E.
Heley, Kay E.
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"Drumming for Reconciliation" is a three-phase, project-based thesis utilizing cultural arts,especially traditional music, to further the healing of young, urban Liberian women and men ages 15-24. These youth, survivors or perpetrators of violence during the fourteen years of war from 1989-2003, are falling through the cracks of Liberia's recovery. Phase One of the project is the formation and onset of the working group's advocacy for a nationwide commitment to cultural arts. Phase Two is a pilot drumming project in the West Point area of Monrovia. Phase Three is a community-based cultural arts center with layers of educational, vocational, entrepreneurial, and health care resources. The African proverb says, "The young sprout permits one to predict the height of the tree"; Liberian communities are only as strong as their youth. Cultural arts are the gateway to the healing and social access needed by urban youth in post-conflict Liberia.
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2010-07-22
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University of Kansas
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African studies, Mental health, Music, Cultural arts, Drumming, Post-conflict Liberia, Traditional healing, Traditional music, Youth