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Media & Arts for Peace (MAP) is a global education and talent initiative that brings together artists and media professionals from diverse backgrounds to explore creative approaches to conflict transformation and peacebuilding.

MAP began as a deep curiosity about the role of media and the arts in shaping how we experience conflict and imagine peace. Rooted in a Master’s in International Affairs from the Fletcher School, this inquiry led to the creation of MAP under Honey& in 2016.

What followed was a multi-dimensional body of work spanning teaching, research, and practice. MAP was developed and taught in leading academic settings, including Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and University of Denver Josef Korbel School of International Studies (among others), and brought to life through international speaking engagements and collaborations with artists, media professionals, and institutions such as Middle East Institute and United Nations Office at Geneva, across the United States, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.

At its core, MAP bridges worlds that don’t often sit together: policy and creativity, analysis and expression, strategy and human experience. It invites a different kind of conversation, where storytelling, art, and media are not peripheral, but central to how we engage with complexity and transformation.

In 2018, MAP reached a wider global audience through an online course developed in partnership with United States Institute of Peace and Geneva Centre for Security Policy. The programme continues to be available today, extending MAP’s reach to practitioners, artists, and changemakers around the world.

Over time, it has evolved across contexts and geographies, shaped by a network of collaborators, partners, and practitioners who believed in the work and brought it to life.

MAP remains a foundation for what comes next, continuing to open new pathways in creative practice and entrepreneurship.

Because creativity is not just a tool for difficult conversations, it is a way of thinking. It fuels curiosity, expands perspective, and strengthens how we lead, learn, and work with complexity.

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"We first worked with MAP in 2017 developing a roadmap to establish a coalition of NGOs in Kuwait. We then went on to conduct a needs assessment study of the civic sector in 2018 and initiate a collective impact think tank on educational reform in 2019. Through all of this, Honey & lyad worked with us closely, each time delivering proposals that were spot on and comprehensive while accommodating our tight timelines and even tighter budgets. Their understanding of the local cultural context combined with their keen insights have been invaluable in effectively moving forward. Our work with MAP is an excellent example of what a sustained partnership can and should achieve!"

"More than simply explaining theory, Professor Al Sayed's class went further to pair real life examples with the principles that comprised them. With the combination of media, arts, and culture for war and peace, Professor Al Sayed gave us the necessary tools to advocate for change and glimpse into the life of those in public diplomacy. CULP 222 was refreshingly different from my other classes - I found myself applying the lessons in each class to my work combating sexual assault on campus in ways that I would not have imagined on my own. Professor Al Sayed is spirited, knowledgeable, and plays an active role in showing her support and belief in her students, an asset that is valuable anywhere, but especially in a classroom filled with students striving for peace through mutual understanding and respect.