ACPACS is interested in engaging in issues of creativity, cultural production and peacebuilding in different contexts. As part of these broader discussions, a project entitled PeaceMAP - Peace through Music, Art and Poetry, is being developed.
PeaceMAP is a potential three year research and training project.
The objectives of the PeaceMAP project are:
- to promote research on the role of cultural production and narratives in peace and reconciliation processes;
- generate dynamic conversations and exchange between artists, researchers and practitioners working in the field of conflict resolution and reconciliation;
- establish an identifiable concentration within the conflict resolution field on the central role of creativity and culture in conflict and peacebuilding;
- and to develop specific programmes to advance indigenous and non indigenous cultural production and reconciliation.
We are having a planning meeting to design a programme around these issues in November this year. The key organisational group is Kevin Clements and Nadia Mizner from ACPACS, Susie Carpenter-Jacobs, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, London, and Professor Cindy Cohen, of the Coexistence Programme at Brandeis University.