Understanding an Enemy is Like Understanding a Poem: Art and Peace in Theory and Practice

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Author(s): Cynthia Cohen (Brandeis University, USA)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 21
Source title: Handbook of Research on Promoting Peace Through Practice, Academia, and the Arts
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Mohamed Walid Lutfy (London School of Economics, UK)and Cris Toffolo (Northeastern Illinois University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-3001-5.ch014

Keywords: Civic Engagement & Social Justice / Ethics and Social Responsibility / Information Science Reference / Social Sciences & Humanities

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This chapter explains how and why the arts are well suited to address the challenges of peacebuilding. It draws on the example of Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani, a theatre ensemble that accompanied Peru's truth and reconciliation commission, to ground explorations of three bodies of theory: the nature of knowing facilitated through aesthetic engagement; the moral imagination; and the permeable membrane between art and the on-going flow of life. The chapter offers five brief examples of arts-informed peacebuilding in different parts of the world, incorporating different art forms and addressing different issues. The chapter's title is based on the concept of trans-subjectivity, understanding self and other through each other, the ethical and epistemological interdependence that characterizes experiences of coming to know both enemies and poems.

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