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Gabi Kent researches conflict transformation peacebuilding and transitional justice and is a digital storytelling practitioner. She grew up in Ireland before moving to England to study Film and English at the University of East Anglia. After fifteen years making documentaries for British Television she returned to education completing her MSc in Human Rights at the London School of Economics in 2009. Since then Gabi has worked as a peacebuilding consultant for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and media practitioner for community groups and Non-Governmental Organisations working on human rights peacebuilding and socia...l justice issues. Between 2011 and 2013 she was also Community Engagement lead for The Open University on the ESRC funded Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK project (www.poverty.ac.uk). Gabi became a Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences with The Open University in 2015. In 2016 she became involved in the Open University Ireland Oral History Project and joined Jenny Meegan and Philip O’Sullivan as co-lead on the newly named Time to think project in 2018. Gabi is currently undertaking her PhD which draws on the Time to think collection to explore how possibilities for conflict transformation and change are fostered within and between divided parties.
Gabi Kent researches conflict transformation peacebuilding and transitional justice and is a digital storytelling practitioner. She grew up in Ireland before moving to England to study Film and English at the University of East Anglia. After fifteen years making documentaries for British Television she returned to education completing her MSc in Human Rights at the London School of Economics in 2009. Since then Gabi has worked as a peacebuilding consultant for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and media practitioner for community groups and Non-Governmental Organisations working on human rights peacebuilding and socia...l justice issues. Between 2011 and 2013 she was also Community Engagement lead for The Open University on the ESRC funded Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK project (www.poverty.ac.uk). Gabi became a Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences with The Open University in 2015. In 2016 she became involved in the Open University Ireland Oral History Project and joined Jenny Meegan and Philip O’Sullivan as co-lead on the newly named Time to think project in 2018. Gabi is currently undertaking her PhD which draws on the Time to think collection to explore how possibilities for conflict transformation and change are fostered within and between divided parties.
| Title: | The power and the value of knowledge |
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| Description: | Gabi Kent worked as documentary film maker and digital storytelling practitioner in the area of human rights peacebuilding conflict transformation and transitional justice before joining The Open University as a Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences in 2015. In 2016 she became involved in this Oral History Project and joined Jenny Meegan and Philip O’Sullivan as co-lead on the newly renamed ‘Time to think’ project in 2018. Asked in this clip on her reflections on working with the interview material Gabi reflects on the transformative power of knowledge and how it can be applied with very real effect. | Rights statement: | Rights owned or controlled by The Open University |
| Restrictions on use: | Contact the OU Archive prior to any re-use. Contact university-archive@open.ac.uk |
| Contributor: | Gabi Kent |
| Duration: | 00:01:42 |
| Master programe code and title: | Gabi Kent Interview |
| Master programme start time: | 00:08:48 |
| Master programme end time: | 00:10:28 |
| Master programme production number: | 004_T_01 |
| Available to public: | yes |
