The Art of Peace Formation: Arts-Based Social Movements, Opportunities and Blockages

Artpeace represents a conceptual framing of the synergy between the arts and peacemaking, as well as a methodological strategy for addressing war and political conflict through the arts. Developing the concept of artpeace, this book investigates how local art projects in seven locations across Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America have played a role in broader national peace projects. And it examines the blockages that, at times, prevent the arts from making a tangible difference to the variations of peace being designed.

Birte Vogel is Senior Lecturer in Humanitarianism, Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Manchester. Her publications include Mac Ginty, R. Brett, R., and Vogel, B. (eds) 2021. Companion to Peace and Conflict Fieldwork, Palgrave Macmillan and Distler, W. Stavrevska, E. and Vogel, B. (eds) 2019. Economy Formation Processes in Conflict-Affected Societies, Routledge.

Stefanie Kappler is Professor in Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding at Durham University. Her publications include Peacebuilding and Spatial Transformation: Peace, Space and Place (with Annika Björkdahl), Routledge, 2017; Local Agency and Peacebuilding: EU and International Engagement in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cyprus and South Africa, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2014 and Mass media and the Genocide of the Armenians: One Hundred Years of Uncertain Representation (with Joceline Chabot, Richard Godin & Sylvia Kasparian [eds]), Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2015.

Oliver P. Richmond is Research Professor of IR, Peace and Conflict Studies at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute & Department of Politics, University of Manchester. His recent publications include Peace in IR (Routledge, 2008), Challenges to Peacebuilding: Managing Spoilers During Conflict Resolution (co-edited with Edward Newman) (UNU Press, 2006), and The Transformation of Peace (Palgrave, 2005).