This volume explores the relationship between peacebuilding and the arts. Through a series of original essays the authors break new ground, setting out fresh ways of analysing how different art forms can contribute to the processes and practices of building peace. The book is divided into five sections (on Visual Arts, Music, Literature, Film and Theatre/Dance), with over 20 authors offering overviews of each art form, case studies from around the globe and critical reflections on how the arts can contribute to peacebuilding. By bringing together the insights of scholars and practitioners working at the intersection of these two broad fields, this book presents a series of unique, critical perspectives on the interaction of diverse art forms with a range of peacebuilding endeavours.

Jolyon Mitchell is Professor and Director of CTPI at the University of Edinburgh, UK, where he specialises in Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding with special reference to the Arts.

Giselle Vincett is a sociologist of religion. Her work concentrates primarily on everyday performances of belief and on everyday and spatial experiences of deprivation in the West. 

Theodora Hawksley is a Roman Catholic theologian specialising in the area of peacebuilding and Catholic social teaching. She writes regularly on Ignatian spirituality.

Jolyon Mitchell is Professor and Director of CTPI at the University of Edinburgh, UK, where he specialises in Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding with special reference to the Arts.

Giselle Vincett is a sociologist of religion. Her work concentrates primarily on everyday performances of belief and on everyday and spatial experiences of deprivation in the West. 

Theodora Hawksley is a Roman Catholic theologian specialising in the area of peacebuilding and Catholic social teaching. She writes regularly on Ignatian spirituality.

Hal Culberston is Associate Dean for Operations at the University of Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs. He specializes in NGO management, particularly in the peacebuilding context.

1. Introduction, Theodora Hawksley and Jolyon Mitchell.- 2. Bearing Witness, Remembering and Peacebuilding through Visual Arts, Jolyon Mitchell.- 3. Peacebuilding in Korea through Minjung Art: Struggle for Justice and Peace, Sebastian Kim.- 4. Art, Protest and Peace: the Murals of the Bogside Artists, Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin.- 5. Drawings for Projection: Proposing Peacebuilding Through the Arts, Theodora Hawksley.- 6. Music Writ Large: the Potential of Music in Peacebuilding, John Paul Lederach and Scott Appleby.- 7. Engaging the "Other": Contemporary Music as Perspective-Shifting in Post-Conflict Northern Uganda, Lindsay McClain Opiyo.- 8. Music's Limits: the Early Years of the Barenboim Said Foundation (2003-2009), Rachel Beckles Willson.- 9. The Role of Music-Making in Peacebuilding: a Levinasian Perspective, Kathryn Jourdan.- 10. Literature and Peace Studies, Sandra M. Gustafson.- 11. Storytelling and Peacebuilding: Lessons from Northern Uganda, Ketty Anyeko and Tamara Shaya.- 12. What Choice between Nightmares?: Intersecting Local, Global and Intimate Stories of Pain in Peacebuilding, Juliane Okot Bitek.- 13. Literary Strains: the Challenges of Making Meaning and Promoting Peace through Written Works, Alison Rice.- 14. Catalyzing Peace: Re-Humanizing through Embodied Experience of Cinema, Joseph G. Kickasola.- 15. Peacebuilding and Reconciliation in and through Film: the Case Study of Rwanda, Robert K. Johnston.- 16. The Power of Film: Grassroots Activism in Ousmane Sembène's Moolaadé, Lizelle Bisschoff.- 17. Toward a Disarmed Cinema, Olivier Morel.- 18. Peacebuilding and the Performing Arts through the Collaborative Lens, Hal Culbertson.- 19. Peacebuilding and the Theatre Arts, Paul Burbridge and Geoffrey Stevenson.- 20. Peacebuilding and Dance in Afro-Colombian Funerary Ritual, Sandra M. Rios Oyola and Thania Acarón.- 21. Doing Justice tothe Past: Time in Drama and Peacebuilding, Frances Clemson.- 22. Afterword: 'Evoking the Yarragh' - Scott Appleby.