This guide provides advice, exercises and notes for local peacebuilders who wish to facilitate a participatory video (PV) process in order to enhance the resilience and peacebuilding capacities of their communities.
We believe PV processes can be an important tool to build peace in a community by giving voice to grassroots, alternative narratives of peace that might otherwise not be heard. The guide outlines ways in which a PV process can both facilitate individual and collective reflection on issues they believe are critical to peace in their community and provide participants with the skills they need to construct and then film a story of their choice. Films produced through the PV process can thus become the starting point for wider community dialogues or policy advocacy contributing to peaceful change.