The Arts and Peacebuilding

Using Imagination and Creativity

The Arts and Peacebuilding: Using Imagination and Creativity
"How, when, and why did politicians and developing responses to needed social change come to be seen as something separate from the whole of human experience?"

The importance and potential of arts as a tool for peacebuilding should not be underestimated. To illustrate this, my introduction tells some modern “Pied Piper” tales. The cases following this text elaborate further on how the arts are currently being used in peacebuilding activities in different regions around the world.

Lederach, John Paul. “The Arts and Peacebuilding: Using Imagination and Creativity.” In People Building Peace II: Successful Stories of Civil Society, edited by Paul van Tongeren, Malin Brenk, Marte Hellema, and Juliette Verhoeven, 283–92. Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2005.

From “The Arts and Peacebuilding: Using Imagination and Creativity,” by John Paul Lederach, in People Building Peace II: Successful Stories of Civil Society, edited by Paul van Tongeren, Malin Brenk, Marte Hellema, and Juliette Verhoeven. Copyright © 2005 by Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.

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