"Ending violent conflict requires societies to take leaps of
political imagination. Artistic communities are often uniquely
placed to help promote new thinking by enabling people to see
things differently. In place of conflict's binary divisions,
artists are often charged with exploring the ambiguities and
possibilities of the excluded middle. Yet, their role in
peacebuilding remains little explored. This excellent and
agenda-setting volume provides a ground-breaking look at a range of
artistic practices, and the ways in which they have attempted to
support peacebuilding - a must-read for all practitioners and
policy-makers, and indeed other peacemakers looking for
inspiration."Professor Christine Bell, FBA, Professor of
Constitutional Law, Assistant Principal (Global Justice), and
co-director of the Global Justice Academy, The University of
Edinburgh, UK "Peacebuilding and the Arts offers an impressive and
impressively comprehensive engagement with the role that visual
art, music, literature, film and theatre play in building peaceful
and just societies. Without idealizing the role of the arts, the
authors explore their potential and limits in a wide range of
cases, from Korea, Cambodia, Colombia and Northern Ireland to
Uganda, Rwanda, South Africa and Israel-Palestine."Roland Bleiker,
Professor of International Relations, University of Queensland,
Australia, and author of Aesthetics and World Politics and Visual
Global Politics "Peacebuilding and the Arts is the first
publication to focus critically and comprehensively on the
relations between the creative arts and peacebuilding, expanding
the conventional boundaries of peacebuilding and conflict
transformation to include the artist, actor, poet, novelist,
dramatist, musician, dancer and film director. The sections on the
visual arts, music, literature, film and theatre, include case
studies from very different cultures, contexts and settings but a
central theme is that the creative arts can play a unique and
crucial role in the building of peaceful and just societies, with
the power to transform relationships, heal wounds, and nurture
compassion and empathy. Peacebuilding and the Arts is a vital and
unique resource which will stimulate critical discussion and
further research, but it will also help to refine and reframe our
understanding of peacebuilding. While it will undoubtedly become
mandatory reading for students of peacebuilding and the arts, its
original approach and dynamic exploratory style should attract a
much wider interdisciplinary audience."Professor Anna King,
Professor of Religious Studies and Social Anthropology and Director
of Research, Centre of Religion, Reconciliation and Peace (WCRRP),
University of Winchester, UK This volume explores the relationship
between peacebuilding and the arts. Through a series of original
essays, authors consider some of the ways that different art forms
(including film, theatre, music, literature, dance, and other forms
of visual art) can contribute to the processes and practices of
building peace. This book breaks new ground, by setting out fresh
ways of analysing the relationship between peacebuilding and the
arts. Divided into five sections on the Visual Arts, Music,
Literature, Film and Theatre/Dance, over 20 authors offer
conceptual overviews of each art form as well as new case studies
from around the globe and critical reflections on how the arts can
contribute to peacebuilding. As interest in the topic increases, no
other book approaches this complex relationship in the way that
Peacebuilding and the Arts does. By bringing together the insights
of scholars and practitioners working at the intersection of the
arts and peacebuilding, this book develops a series of unique,
critical perspectives on the interaction of diverse art forms with
a range of peacebuilding endeavours.
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