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The Role of the Humanities
in Post-Conflict Societies,
or Do They Need Poems Here?
Patricia Bloem, David Klooster,
Asone Wollor, James Harris, and John-Paul Noah
We arrived in Monrovia, Liberia, in late summer and again in early autumn, 2007 (or in a more Liberian way of putting it, late in the rainy season and at the very beginning of the dry season), to provide workshops for school and university teachers, offering ideas about teaching reading, writing, and critical thinking.
We came with backpacks full of stories, poems, discussion activities, role-playing exercises, writing assignments, and lesson-planning strategies. Even though we were deeply committed to this work, and had the confidence built by ten years of similar workshops in other parts of the world, we got off the airplane, looked around, and thought, “Do they really need poems here? In the midst of all of these needs, what do we actually have to offer?”
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