As part of the 2024 Stockholm Forum on Peace and Development, the Swedish Dialogue Institute for the Middle East and North Africa, in collaboration with the Arab Reform Initiative (ARI), hosted a round table discussion entitled “Storytelling: A tool for change” on May 6th.
The session reflected on how storytelling can be a tool to overcome biases and to create stronger mutual understanding, including between people from different cultures and different generations, to enhance human connection. It also discussed how storytelling can help to develop empathy and contribute to dialogue processes, and thereby to the building of peaceful societies. It started with a panel discussion featuring prominent speakers from different walks of life, from civil society, creative industries/private sector, media and think tanks.
Read the Report on “Storytelling as a tool for change”
