As a storyteller, teacher, facilitator, researcher, and writer,聽Babu Joseph Ayindo聽has over two decades of experience in the design, implementation and evaluation of conflict transformation and peacebuilding processes and programs with various agencies in different parts of the world. He has taught short courses in arts-based approaches to peace work in seven peacebuilding institutes in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, and North America. Some of his publications include: co-authoring聽, published by the United States Institute of Peace, 2001; 鈥淎rts Approaches to Peace: Playing Our Way to Transcendence,鈥� published in Barry Hart (ed.)聽聽(University Press of America, 2008);聽Mpatanishi: A Handbook for Community Based Mediators, published in 2010 by PeaceNet; and聽, published by the Coalition of Peace in Africa in 2011.
He holds a BEd from Kenyatta University in Nairobi, Kenya, and an MA in Conflict Transformation from 草莓社区 in the USA. In September 2017, he successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled, 鈥淎rts, Peacebuilding and Decolonization: A Comparative Study of Parihaka, Mindanao and Nairobi鈥� at the University of Otago in Aotearoa/New Zealand.