With an emphasis on addressing gender-based violence and the role of women and cultural work in peacebuilding, the chapters in this book represent the fruit of collaborative work across borders, between artists, activists and academics, bringing a wide range of disciplinary perspectives to bear on situations of violence and precarity.
This book shifts the focus of peacebuilding away from nation-states and international organisations to make a powerful argument that sustainable peacebuilding is the work of ordinary people. It brings together work done in Gaza, Ghana, Mexico, Morocco and Zimbabwe, alongside work with refugees in Scotland, to argue for a place for successful intercultural relations as a central aim of peacebuilding, moving beyond the more usual focus on economic development. With a particular emphasis on addressing gender-based violence and the role of women in peacebuilding, together with a central role for arts and culture as a means of resistance and social change, the chapters represent the fruit of collaborative work across geographical and cultural borders, between artists, activists and academics, bringing a wide range of disciplinary perspectives to bear on situations of violence and precarity. In a world where peace work can feel increasingly futile, this book makes a powerful case for the crucial role of local action and cultural work and play in the creation of a better future.
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This important book highlights the vital role of cultural rights and gender equality in sustainable peace, drawing on decolonising and restorative paradigms to create cultures of peace using the arts. It offers original conceptualisations and theorisations of methods used to sustain cultures of peace in contexts of extreme violence and precarity in the Global South. * Francis B. Nyamnjoh, University of Cape Town, South Africa * I wholeheartedly endorse this important collection. It provides compelling testimonials from women in patriarchal communities around the world who have suffered under gender-based violence against women, but who have found a way through creative arts to gain voice and visibility and fight for sustainable peace. It deserves to be read, shared and discussed! * Hans Ladegaard, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University * This book unpacks the complex nature of 'peace' through a decolonial lens by shifting power, voice, and agency in knowledge production to the Global South. The contextual stories demonstrate how diverse cultures of the Global South apply their own experiences of language, music, dance, poetry, and drama to create and sustain peace. * Mary Setrana, University of Ghana * In this edited collection, Hyab Teklehaimanot Yohannes, Alison Phipps, and Tawona Sitholé draw together a series of compelling chapters which raise challenging, but deeply necessary, questions and affirmations on the kinds of contributions and capacities that cultural interventions are poised to make in response to violence in all its articulations. * Lydia Ayame Hiraide, Soka University, Japan, LSE Review of Books, June 25th, 2025 *
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Unique collection of studies exploring the under-researched subject of the relationship between culture and peace
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Contributors
Acknowledgements
I Am You
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Hyab Teklehaimanot Yohannes, Alison Phipps, Tawona Sitholé: Introduction
Part 1: Towards Cultures of Conflict Transformation
Chapter
1. Rajaa Essaghyry and Aadel Essaadani: Three Moroccan Womens
Liberation Journeys
Chapter
2. Angelica Lucia Damian Bernal, Maria Veronica Ibarra Garcia, Eva
Citlali Jiménez Rodríguez, Violeta Torres Carroll, Paola Cueto Jimenez: High
School Women in the Face of Violence During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Towards
the Production of Spaces of Prevention and Sisterhood
Chapter
3. Taghreed El Masry, Fatma Abubaker, Hana El-Badri and Eman
Alzaanin: Narratives of Change: Young Palestinian Womens Engagement with
Short Stories to Promote Dialogue for Peacebuilding
Chapter
4. Chipo Basopo, Simbarashe Mudhokweni and Rashiwe Chipurunyenye:
Creative Corridors: Peace, Inclusivity and Engagement with Persons with
Disabilities
Chapter
5. Evelyn Arizpe, Sinéad Gormally, Nohora Niño Vega, Jeronimo
Castillo Muñoz, Manuela Suárez Rueda, Javiera Donoso Jiménez, Alejandro
Bahena Rivera and Sergio Hernández Mendoza: A Tale of Two Cities: Recovering
Community Spaces for Peacebuilding in Medellín and Acapulco
Part 2: Popular Arts and Everyday Culture Meet Gender-Based Violence
Chapter
6. Adwoa Sikayena Amankwah, Hasiyatu Abubakari, Abigail Opoku Mensah:
Popular Arts as Communication Tools for the Eradication of Gender-Based
Violence and Child Marriage in Ghana
Chapter
7. Mahmoud O. Jalambo, Nazmi Al-Masri, Somaya M. Saym and Azza
Al-Sahhar: Resilient Palestinian Women Facing Gender-Based Conflict in the
Gaza Strip
Chapter
8. Manase Kudzai Chiweshe, Sandra Bhatasara and Gareth James: Popular
Culture and Gender-Based Violence inan EvolvingCOVID-19Contextin
Zimbabwe
Chapter
9. Hasiyatu Abubakari, Adwoa Sikayena Amankwah and Abigail Opoku
Mensah: Promoting Womens Participation in Social Transformation Through
Popular Arts in Kusaal-Speaking Communities in Ghana
Part 3: Reflexivity, Dilemmas and Safeguarding with Grassroots Organisations
Chapter
10. Rocío Elizabeth Muñoz Santamaría and Carlos Eduardo Arias
Galindo: Decolonial Praxes: Metaphors, Mediation and Writing in Motion
Chapter
11. Maria Grazia Imperiale, Giovanna Fassetta and Fatma Abubaker:
Contextualising Safeguarding in International Development Research:
Requirements and Challenges
Chapter
12. Julie E. McAdam, Cristina Amescua and Evelyn Arizpe: Between
Success and Failure: Researching with Grassroots Organisations Involved in
Conflict Transformation
Chapter
13. Alison Phipps: The Many Twists and Turns in the Pathways to
Peace: Reflections on the Bright Sadness of Decolonising and Structuring
Cultural Work
Index
Hyab Teklehaimanot Yohannes is a Lecturer in Forced Migration and Decolonial Education with the UNESCO Chair for Refugee Integration through Education, Languages, and Arts at the University of Glasgow, Scotland.
Alison Phipps holds the UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Education, Languages and Arts at the University of Glasgow, where she is also Professor of Languages and Intercultural Studies and Co-convener of Glasgow Refugee, Asylum and Migration Network (GRAMNET).
Tawona Sitholé is a Lecturer in Creative Practice Education with the UNESCO Chair for Refugee Integration through Education, Languages, and Arts at the University of Glasgow, Scotland.
