Based on life story interviews with education volunteers, ‘A Future for Syria’ is part of the wider TRANSFORM research project investigating how and why people commit to small, everyday acts of heroism in conflict settings. As the film reveals, individual actions can go a long way in challenging dehumanisation and abuse. As educational activists across Syria fight to continue primary level education, they give Syria’s children hope for a better future.
Senior Researcher at NUPI, Kjetil Selvik, is the main researcher of the Syria study at PRIO. He explains: “in our research, we find that local communities and individuals self-organize education in an emergency and persist against all odds. We study their personal motivation and the meaning they attach to education under revolution and war”.
This illustration is a part of the TRANSFORM project. It was created by PositiveNegatives, drawing on research conducted in partnership with PRIO.
You can also watch the illustration in English here.
