Mediating Peace: Reconciliation through Visual Art, Music and Film

This volume examines the role and contributions of art, music and film in peace-building and reconciliation, offering a distinctive approach in various forms of art in peace-building in a wide range of conflict situations, particularly in religiously plural contexts. As such, it provides readers with a comprehensive perspective on the subject. The contributors are composed of prominent scholars and artists who examine theoretical, professional and practical perspectives and debates, and address three central research questions, which form the theoretical basis of this project: namely, In what way have particular forms of art enhanced peace-building in conflict situations?, How do artistic forms become a public demonstration and expression of a particular socio-political context?, and In what way have the arts played the role of catalyst for peace-building, and, if not, why not? This volume demonstrates that art contributes in conflict and post-conflict situations in three main ways: transformation at an individual level; peace-building between communities; and bridging justice and peace for sustainable reconciliation.