Children, Youth, and Participatory Arts for Peacebuilding - Lessons From Kyrgyzstan, Rwanda, Indonesia, and Nepal

This book demonstrates how participatory arts-based approaches can help children and youth contribute to peacebuilding within post-conflict contexts and to their communities.Cultural forms of storytelling through visual arts, drama, music, and dance can help to enhance post-conflict community well-being, social cohesion, and conflict prevention. However, in the planning and implementation of these arts-based projects, children and youth are often marginalised in decision-making processes. Drawing on cases from Kyrgyzstan, Rwanda, Indonesia, and Nepal, this book demonstrates the benefits of participatory action research with children and youth to inform education curricula and policies for sustaining peace. Showing how artforms can be adapted to meet the needs of children and youth, the book emphasises the need to scale up arts-based peacebuilding initiatives and leverage for greater policy enactment from the bottom up. It is also an excellent example of South-South learning, advocating for a local approach to engage with arts-based methodologies and peacebuilding. This book will be of interest to researchers across the applied arts, sociology, anthropology, political science, peacebuilding, and international development.Practitioners and policymakers would also benefit from the book's recommendations for the implementation of successful arts-based research projects and interventions.

Product details

• Authors: Ananda Marambio Breed
• Assisted by: Ananda Breed (Editor), Breed Ananda (Editor), Helena Marambio (Editor), Helena-Ulrike Marambio (Editor), Kirrily Pells (Editor), Rajib Timalsina (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.06.2024
• EAN: 9781032135915
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3213591-5
• No. of pages: 286
• Series: Routledge Studies in Development and Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); ART / History / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, MEDICAL / Allied Health Services / Occupational Therapy, History of art / art & design styles, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, History of Art, Creative therapy (eg art, music, drama), Social and cultural anthropology, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Peace studies & conflict resolution, Creative therapy / Expressive therapies