Peacebuilding and the Arts

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"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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxii Introduction (Theodora Hawksley, Jolyon Mitchell)....Pages 1-31 Front Matter ....Pages 33-33 Peacebuilding Through the Visual Arts (Jolyon Mitchell)....Pages 35-70 Peacebuilding in Korea Through Minjung Art: Struggle for Justice and Peace (Sebastian Kim)....Pages 71-90 Art, Protest and Peace: The Murals of the Bogside Artists (Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin)....Pages 91-117 Drawings for Projection: Proposing Peacebuilding Through the Arts (Theodora Hawksley)....Pages 119-135 Front Matter ....Pages 137-137 Music Writ Large: The Potential of Music in Peacebuilding (John Paul Lederach)....Pages 139-156 Engaging the “Other”: Contemporary Music as Perspective-Shifting in Post-conflict Northern Uganda (Lindsay McClain Opiyo)....Pages 157-175 Music’s Limits: The Early Years of the Barenboim–Said Foundation (2003–2009) (Rachel Beckles Willson)....Pages 177-192 The Role of Music-Making in Peacebuilding: A Levinasian Perspective (Kathryn Jourdan)....Pages 193-213 Front Matter ....Pages 215-215 Literature and Peace Studies (Sandra M. Gustafson)....Pages 217-233 Storytelling and Peacebuilding: Lessons from Northern Uganda (Ketty Anyeko, Tamara Shaya Hoffmann)....Pages 235-251 What Choice Between Nightmares?: Intersecting Local, Global and Intimate Stories of Pain in Peacebuilding (Juliane Okot Bitek)....Pages 253-264 Literary Strains: The Challenges of Making Meaning and Promoting Peace Through Written Works (Alison Rice)....Pages 265-278 Front Matter ....Pages 279-279 Catalyzing Peace: Re-humanizing Through Embodied Experience of Cinema (Joseph G. Kickasola)....Pages 281-304 Peacebuilding and Reconciliation in and Through Film: The Case Study of Rwanda (Robert K. Johnston)....Pages 305-321 The Power of Film: Grassroots Activism in Ousmane Sembène’s Moolaadé (Lizelle Bisschoff)....Pages 323-338 Towards a Disarmed Cinema (Olivier Morel)....Pages 339-354 Front Matter ....Pages 355-355 Peacebuilding and the Performing Arts Through the Collaborative Lens (Hal Culbertson)....Pages 357-374 Peacebuilding and the Theatre Arts (Paul Burbridge, Geoffrey Stevenson)....Pages 375-393 Peacebuilding and Dance in Afro-Colombian Funerary Ritual (Sandra Milena Rios Oyola, Thania Acarón Rios)....Pages 395-413 Doing Justice to the Past: Time, Drama and Peacebuilding (Frances Clemson)....Pages 415-433 Front Matter ....Pages 435-435 Evoking the Yarragh (R. Scott Appleby)....Pages 437-446 Back Matter ....Pages 447-483