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Arts-Based Adult Learning in Peacebuilding: A Potentially Significant Emerging Area for Development Practitioners?

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  • Vicki-Ann Ware

    (Deakin University)

  • Joanne Lauterjung

    (SonicBloom)

  • Shannon Harmer McSolvin

    (Deakin University)

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Intractable conflict coupled with deep poverty often reinforce socio-psychological conflict-repertoires. Transforming repertoires can contribute to sustainable peace. Increasingly, development NGOs utilise arts-based programming to provide community spaces for exploring peace-oriented repertoires. Yet arts-based processes are poorly theorised in the development literature. We present a case-study arts-based peacebuilding programme embedded in intra-ethnic Rakhine asset-based community development (Myanmar). Arts-based components help build comprehension and retention of peace concepts, and motivation/confidence to apply new knowledge to daily interactions, supporting the overall aim of shifting conflict-repertoires. We show art-based activities as reflective learning processes produced modest-yet-significant shifts in repertoires, thereby contributing to sustainable peacebuilding.

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  • Vicki-Ann Ware & Joanne Lauterjung & Shannon Harmer McSolvin, 2022. "Arts-Based Adult Learning in Peacebuilding: A Potentially Significant Emerging Area for Development Practitioners?," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 34(2), pages 1050-1075, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:eurjdr:v:34:y:2022:i:2:d:10.1057_s41287-021-00416-x
    DOI: 10.1057/s41287-021-00416-x
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    1. Vicki-Ann Ware & Kim Dunphy, 2020. "How Do Arts Programmes Contribute in International Development? A Systematic Review of Outcomes and Associated Processes," Progress in Development Studies, , vol. 20(2), pages 140-162, April.
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