Silent Lions: Experiences of voice and collective power among adolescent girls and boys affected by conflict and violence in Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey

Abstract

In mid-2021, Save the Children Middle East and Eastern Europe Regional Office engaged the University of Melbourne to conduct arts-based research to explore adolescent experiences of ‘voice’ and collective power in the region. Save the Children Country Offices in Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq convened twelve workshop groups of adolescent girls and boys aged 14 to 19 years of age, all of whom were refugees or impacted by displacement, discrimination, exclusion, and economic disadvantage. In creative workshops devised by the arts-based research team Dr Gillian Howell (The University of Melbourne) and composer and workshop facilitator Mr Ameen Mokdad (Iraq/Turkey), the adolescents explored their expe..