Knowledge Production and Development

Since its beginning, knowledge production and development have been central to Steps' mission. We specialize in creating training tools, educational curricula, and materials tailored to community needs. Our collaborative team of experts ensures content is both engaging and aligned with learning goals. Through systematic approaches, we emphasize relevance and impact, empowering individuals and groups with the skills and knowledge for meaningful change. This includes:

  • Design and facilitate knowledge production and development processes.
  • Conduct thorough research to gather data and identify insights.
  • Embrace innovation and creativity and foster collaboration and interdisciplinary teamwork.
  • Ensure relevance to the needs and priorities of communities.
  • Develop content and make knowledge accessible, understandable and interactive.
  • Implement quality assurance processes to maintain relevance.
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People the Root of Change

Launching of the new toolkit: People, The Root of Change

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Facilitating Eye not for an Eye workshops

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Facilitating Hawli w Hawalayi training for Animators

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Launching of the Oral History Guide

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Launching of Hawli w Hawaleye 

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Facilitating Eye not for an Eye workshops

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Facilitating Oral History Workshops

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Facilitating HWH workshops

An interactive "learning-by-doing" approach to oral history. It highlights oral history's role in conflict transformation by capturing diverse voices, documenting narratives, and promoting understanding about the past.

A project in partnership with forumZFD.

Steps was responsible for:

  • Leading and facilitating the review process of the guide, including facilitating peer review workshops, and setting the knowledge development process with the team involved.

  • Co-developing the content alongside the team involved, with a special focus on conflict transformation.

  • Designing the website and ensuring accessibility and user-friendliness.

Check out the website Reimagine the Past to access the guide and learn more about the transformative power of oral history.

A participatory and discovery-based toolkit for volunteers, activists, teachers, or anyone interested to know more about conflict transformation and the culture of non-violence. The aim is to make conflict transformation concepts and applications accessible to people in different communities. 

A project in partnership with forumZFD.

Steps was responsible for:

  • Updating the content and activities of the previous toolkit, including a review process with those who implemented the toolkit over the years.

  • Designing the toolkit in a visually engaging and user-friendly way.

Steps continues to facilitate yearly Eye not for an Eye workshops for activists, educators, and facilitators engaged within their communities.

A guide that focuses on knowledge and essential tools for community mediation, aspiring to be a reference for peace building activists, and to present the Syrian experience as one in the area of mediation within local frameworks. 

A project in partnership with Mobaderoon and Swiss Peace.

Steps was responsible for:

  • Collecting and presenting mediation stories from community activists who lived through conflict and mediation in their environments.

  • Presenting the results and conclusions of a critical review of different mediation schools and references, and an attempt to add a new theory of change specific to this guide, based on a transformative approach and theory of human needs and non-violent communication. 

An interactive and engaging resource designed for animators to work on conflict transformation and peace education with children during summer camps and informal activities. Until 2025, around 30 organizations in Lebanon have been trained on Hawli w Hawaleye and implement it with children from their communities. 

A project in partnership with forumZFD.

Steps was responsible for:

  • Creating interactive activities for children aged 7 to 12, fostering personal growth, non-violent communication, conflict transformation skills required to cope with conflict, and play and sing during activities. 

  • Creating an Animators Development Toolkit to enhance animators’ skills in conflict transformation, team dynamics, and understanding children's’ age group dynamics and contexts.

  • Facilitating the learning journey for groups, starting with the Animators Development Workshop (5 days), then HwH Activities Workshop (3 days), and shadowing the teams implementing HwH to support them.

Steps continues to facilitate yearly Hawli w Hawaleye learning journeys to groups and organizations working with children.