Cartooning for Peace is a recognised content publisher specialised in media education, citizenship and international solidarity. The organisation develops education through press cartoons in order to free the speech and support debates on subjects of society.
Internationally, through its programmes, Cartooning for Peace enables education professionals to familiarise themselves with its tools and to learn about the teaching methods used in its workshops with schoolchildren.
Training courses are organised in the form of exchanges between cartoonists and formal or popular education professionals.
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The Fédération Léo Lagrange and Cartooning for Peace are once again teaming up on a new project, “To Kplon Nou”, to “offer the people of Benin a comprehensive educational offering to encourage links between local people, their self-fulfilment and their civic commitment”.
Cartooning for Peace is working with CFI and Africa Check on the “Cartooning for Africa Facts” project to combat misinformation and hate speech on the African continent.
Cartooning for Peace (France) and Buni Media (Kenya) launch a civic education programme using press cartoons with European and African dimensions around the World Press Freedom Day, 3 May 2022, and in the context of the Kenyan elections in August 2022.
The University of Leicester, Shout Out UK and Cartooning for Peace are pleased to partner on the “Covid in Cartoons” educational project, funded by the United Kingdom Research and Innovation, to give young people the tools to share their experiences during the Covid19 pandemic through the medium of press cartoons.
With the support of the European Union in Côte d’Ivoire, this two-year project puts press cartoons at the heart of an approach aimed at promoting freedom of expression and strengthening democratic culture while fighting against exclusionary discourse and disinformation in the Ivorian electoral context. The project targets young people in Côte d’Ivoire through education in citizenship, media and information, with a view to the forthcoming elections, but also to make them ambassadors of a democratic culture for the whole of Ivorian society.
Through media and citizenship education for young and so-called sensitive audiences, the “Cartooning for Peace and Democracy” programme explores the possibility of promoting a culture of peace and democracy through press cartoons in nine priority countries: Morocco, Palestine, Israel, Tunisia, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Mexico, Canada and Ethiopia, with the support of the European Union.
