1. Social Cohesion and Inclusion Engaging with Faith, Identity and Integration Jerald Joseph Malaysia

2. Changing Ethnic Relations A participatory training workshop on engaging critical issues to challenge human rights structure etc.

3. Reclaiming political spaces back to the communities Most spaces are regulated under tight strict controls. Usually its discussed within confines of Cabinet and ruling political negotiation. People are threatened with Official Secrets Act and a other legislation I.e. Sedition and Internal Security Act (ISA) Creating a Space

4. Reclaiming political spaces back to the communities

5. Most spaces are regulated under tight strict controls. Usually its discussed within confines of Cabinet and ruling political negotiation.

6. People are threatened with Official Secrets Act and a other legislation I.e. Sedition and Internal Security Act (ISA)

7. Bringing Back the Peoples discourse The ‘teh-tarik’ stall talk The discussions happening in closed groups Making people comfortable with critical discussions….especially with so called ‘sensitive issues’ to reaffirm that dissent is “normal”

8. The ‘teh-tarik’ stall talk

9. The discussions happening in closed groups

10. Making people comfortable with critical discussions….especially with so called ‘sensitive issues’

11. Training Workshop Creating Safe space Participatory education methodology Human rights framework Empowering processes Enabling them to carry the message

12. Enabling them to carry the message home Video stories Animation Training Methodology short movie Cartoons research

13. The resistance..

14. Impacts from the training Refreshed that its possible to talk straight to other community Inspired to break the walls of suspicion Realization that we are victims and also perpetrators Need to carry the message to new circles for peoples (follow up) Challenging power structures Creating the Malaysian Race, Bangsa Malaysia as opposed to ethnicity