Artistic Activation: A Pedagogy of Peace

Asian Journal of Peacebuilding, 2018

Art increasingly appears at "dark" museums and related formal sites to balance the traditional exhibits of war. This article explores how art might contribute a peace education perceptive in differing countries and a globalizing context. Case studies from the United Kingdom, Europe (West and East), and Southeast Asia (Cambodia and Vietnam) are analyzed. The former deploys new technologies and supports wellknown artists who appeal to art markets. Asian curation relies more on creativity, including children's and victim's art. Both deploy artistic devices to symbolize the scale of atrocities and create aesthetic depth-juxtaposition, prominence, perspective, repetition, patterning, and soundscapes. The analysis provides tools and checklists to assist curation and inform artists, and concludes that critical educational processes are as important as the art.

Global Journal of Arts Education, 2019

In this our modern times, many people, although not in every geography, had to live with wars and conflicts. Peace has always been the object of purchase, even if art cannot afford to prevent the war. Violence and war have become commonplace for everyone, especially for children. Exile, immigration, refugee, human trafficking issues, which have become a problem of the world as a result of war and violence, await solutions. Institutions, states and global organisations are trying to take big economic and social measures towards these problems; however the unresolved problems of the endless wars, the issues of war continue to be the main item of the agenda. For instance, the arts of Otto Dix, Kathe Kollwitz or our current days artists Tammam Azzam and Banksy. This study emphasises the belief that the art has a unifying, healing power, and therefore Art for Peace will continue to be made. Keywords: Contemporary art, peace, war, art.

Proceeding of 2nd International Conference of Arts Language And Culture, 2017

The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948, Article 27, Part 1 states: Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits. Art-film, music, painting, dance-can be a way to approach peace and reconciliation. Whether it be a way of expressing the emotions created by conflict, a piece of public art which commands attention or a community project bringing together affected and even warring participants, the arts can offer a creative and non-political means to engage communities in projects of peace and reconciliation. Peace building cuts across disciplines; however the field of the arts often receives less attention. Given the complexities of conflict and violence there is need to adopt diverse tactics that meet the challenges posed during peace building. Because there is little documentation of how art creates social and personal change, this paper will highlight how media can harness art for peace building and sustenance to improve socio-cultural community life.

Journal of Terrorism Research, 2013

This paper will investigate how contemporary artists who use political violence as a subject matter in their work explain the relationship between art and that form of violence. Referring to interviews with Anita Glesta and George Gittoes, the potential of art as a means of healing communities and individuals affected by terrorism will be explored, alongside related issues of voyeurism, sensationalism and commercialism in art. The study will refer to the ideas of Collingwood and Tolstoy, chosen so as to represent two main schools of thought regarding artistic responsibility & morality and the appropriate intentions of artists. I will explain that both theories can be applied harmoniously to contemporary practise, to the understanding of the role and responsibility of contemporary artists, and discourse around the wider social value of contemporary art.

The Bridge - Newsletter for A Partnership of Faith in New York City, 1998

In 1989-at the time of the intifada-Hagitte Gal'Ed, a Jewish Israeli artist and educator, took the first of several groups of urban teenagers from the United States to Israel to work in artistic collaboration with Arab and Jewish Israeli teenagers. Through this research project she completed her doctoral dissertation at NYU on the topic of international peace education through the arts.

The Open Psychology Journal

Background: According to the Latin poet Virgil, art is capable of revealing to us what no science can ever reveal to a human mind. The main thesis of this paper is that art can play an extremely beneficial role in society as it can strongly foster humans’ efforts to attain a deeper and broader comprehension of reality. Objective: The experience of art can provide a powerful contribution to the efforts to avoid resorting to violence and to address conflicts constructively. Violence or, more exactly, unjustified violence, basically rests on an irrational and short-sighted analysis and interpretation of reality. Results: The psychological processes relating to the aesthetic experience and to its connections with violence are described. It is also pointed out that this theoretical perspective does not fully coincide with the theoretical theses underpinning art therapy. In fact, in this paper art is not considered as a mere therapeutic instrument. Instead, an attempt has been made to con...

Review of European Studies, 2016

The present study aimed to draw attentions toward the importance of art-based curriculum in peace education. Arts education can nurture humanitarian and peaceable children. However, arts education and its effect on developing ethical skills, compassion, sympathy and peace have been neglected in many societies. In this research, by analytical-descriptive method, the interaction between arts education and peace education has been explained. The main finding of this research is that Arts education through various methods including visual arts, performing arts, cinema, and music provides different methods for revolutionizing the mind. Therefore, the role of content mediation of art for understandability of the truth about peace could not be neglected. Art as content becomes the mediator for understanding and nurturing peace.

British Council Cultural Relations Collection , 2023

Daniela Fazio Vargas holds a B.A. in Philosophy, a B.A. in History and a master's degree in Sociology from La Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia). Currently, she is a second-year Sociology PhD student at the University of Manchester where she is researching the political significance of music by taking as a case study the 2019 Chilean Uprising. One of her main interests have been broaden the notion of politics beyond the institutional sphere. Specifically, she is arguing that music is political as it transforms the aesthetics. According to her, music not only helps to make 'thinkable the unthinkable', by visibilising marginal actors and making their demands audible, but also modifies the sensible, transforming how subjects perceive, position, and relate to themselves, others, and the world. Carlos Pineda-Ramos graduated from La Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia) with a B.A. in Philosophy, a B.A. in Psychology, and a master's degree in Sociology. He is currently a PhD student in Management at the University of Bristol. He is analysing the emotional dynamics involved in outsourcing service jobs. Particularly, he is interested in examining how service works demand emotional skills and emotional capital from their employees, who are required to deploy them as part of their work routines. Throughout his career, he has been fascinated by the interaction between emotions and aesthetics. Indeed, during his master's degree, he analysed the interrelation of these concepts in cleaning service companies and in his B.A. he investigated the photographers' emotional implications of the Colombian armed conflict. Ultimately, he is interested in how the interrelationship between emotions and aesthetic allows us to comprehend the thoughts and perspectives of actors from various backgrounds.

The Making of Art and the Knowledge of Peace: A Grounded Theory Study of Video ARTiculation as a Learning Tool in a Dialogic Program of Peace Education, 2001

This work is a product of my life long dialogue with the works and ideas of Martin Buber, particularly those concerning the relationship between the ethic and the aesthetic; education of character and healing processes; human conflict, crisis and the way towards developing a consciousness of peace.