Programme on Arts and Peace


The Arts and Peace Programme focuses on research on various artistic initiatives that have been carried out and which use artistic language for peace building initiatives. Art as a means of expressing and communicating the conditions surrounding us is also a powerful means of raising awareness and makes us reflect upon our attitudes and behaviour. It also promotes participation and peace building, generates solidarity values and encourages dialogue between generations and between cultures.

Documents about Music and Peace:

Documentaries, reports and films on music, culture of peace and culture of violence. (In Spanish)
This document includes recordings of different macro concerts during the last 50 years; documentaries with biographical information on different musicians and singers; and musical movements; and also about movies, documentaries and reports, on music, culture of peace and culture of violence, from popular music, jazz music to classical music.

Music and Human Rights
Which has the role of music been to “play” the subject of human rights? The question will be answered through a musical journey from classical and popular music. In classical music compositions about human rights will be introduced, as well as the musician’s role in the fight for the promotion and protection of these rights. In popular music the role of the singers will be emphasized as well as the songs, macro concerts and organizations who have used music to promote human rights.

Music, arms and disarmament
Which has the relationship been between music and these subjects? Different compositions, songs, musicians, musical organizations and initiatives on massive destruction weapons and conventional arms carried out from both a classical and popular music stand will be detailed, as a musical appeal for disarmament.

Music as an instrument for education for peace . July 2005. (In Spanish)
This dossier includes six didactic proposals stemming from six musical pieces to work on also six key issues on peace education: War, with Jimi Hendrix’s The Star Spangled Banner; Peace, with El cant dels ocells, played by Pau Casals; Human Rights, with Mana’s, Me voy a convertir en un ave; Children Rights with Ismael Serrano’s, Si Peter Pan viniera; Immigration, with Manu Chao’s, Clandestino, and the diversity with Dusminguet’s, cd Go.


For further information on the programme, please contact: alba.sanfeliu@uab.es
Tel. 0034 93 586 88 45



Articles about Arts and Peace:

Opinion articles for reflection upon the relationship between the arts and Peace from the artists’ own voices or from specialists on the subject.

MUSIC:
Music and peace, Alba Sanfeliu

Music, the peace Messenger, Yehudi Menuhin and Miguel Ángel Estrella (in Spanish)

Music for peace, José Antonio Abreu (in Spanish)

Music and mediation, Kjell Skyllstad (in Spanish)

Creating a Culture of Peace, the performing arts in interethnic negotiations, Kjell Skyllstad

Musical education for human rights and peace,
Alicia Campastro and Silvia Carabetta.


“The Pacifist music” to the violent Pacific: music, multiculturalism and marginalization in the Pacific Black Colombian,, Michael Birenbaum Quintero (in Spanish).

Rap from the jungle, a tool for peace building, Jeferson Orejuela (in Spanish)


Africa protests with rap, Jean-Christophe Servant (in Spanish)

Dangerous pity, David Rieff

ART:
Using imagination and creativity, John Paul Lederach.

The role of artistic processes in peacebuilding in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Craig Zelizer

Using Creative Arts to Deglamorize War. Peacelinks in Sierra Leone, Vandy Kanyako.

Can anybody tell me what art is for? Isabel Coixet (in Spanish)

Art & Activism. The integration of art and politics. Theresa Wolfwood.

The role of art in psychosocial care and protection for displaced children, Bo Viktor Nylund, Jean Claude Legrand and Peter Holtsberg

ART THERAPY:
Musictherapy in contexts of political violencea, Alba Sanfeliu (in Spanish)

Music therapy, war trauma, and peace: a Singaporean perspective. Wang Feng Ng.

Music therapy with traumatized refugees in a clinical setting, Jaap Orth

QUILTS:
Talking about the quilt made by the Kuyanakuy Association of craft women in Peru, Roberta Bacic and Alba Sanfeliu.

Visiting the exhibition: The art of survival, international and irish quilts, Alba Sanfeliu (in Spanish)

Arpilleras that cry out, denounce, sing and challenge, Roberta Bacic.


Arpilleras as a means of expression and denounciation. More valid than ever, Cecilia Salazar.

ESCULTURA:
Shooting art, Alba Sanfeliu (in Spanish)

CLOWN:
Clowns, several other authors (In Spanish)

Love and humor: smile before death, María Colomer (In Spanish)

Clown and Peace: A return to the essence of life, Camilo Rodríguez (In Spanish)

The above mentioned opinions come from the authors and are not necessarily shared by the ECP.


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