Mediation, Peacebuilding, Arts, and Religion

Käser, Isabel; Mitchell, Jolyon (2022). Mediation, Peacebuilding, Arts, and Religion. In: Mitchell, Jolyon; Millar, Suzanna R.; Po, Francesca; Percy, Martin (eds.) The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Peace (pp. 573-588). Wiley

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This chapter reviews three key themes that emerged from the research for the 'Art in Peace Mediation' project: timing, hierarchies, and access. It then discusses the potential of incorporating arts into peacebuilding and the challenges facing this endeavour, especially in relation to religious peacebuilding. The chapter examines that the arts, like religion, can contribute to peacebuilding endeavours not only to grassroots levels but also at mid-level and elite levels, bringing fresh insights and opportunities for conflict transformation. Women have always played key roles in warmaking and peacemaking but have traditionally been excluded from the formal spaces of negotiations. Art as an expression of culture is present at every stage of a conflict and visible through symbols, murals, rituals, songs, colours, and flags. Some of these have religious resonance and significance. Bringing art into the formal negotiations gives mediators a chance to use its potential and to defuse its polarising power.

Item Type:	Book Section (Book Chapter)
Division/Institute:	06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institute of Social Anthropology
UniBE Contributor:	Käser, Isabel Martina
Subjects:	300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology
ISBN:	9781119424345
Publisher:	Wiley
Language:	German
Submitter:	Jana Samira Lamatsch
Date Deposited:	27 Mar 2023 13:35
Last Modified:	27 Mar 2023 23:27
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/180685