GS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: John Paul Lederach, Asian Arowana, Totalitarianism
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Gs101 lesson 13: the art of peace (cid:1) Stories of transformation of thinking through art. Art has the ability to focus on the essential: i. e. the cellist of sarajevo (vedran smailovic) playing. Art is not linear: john paul lederach, the moral imagination: the art and soul of building peace, art is not something that deals mostly with the head. Lederach"s answer: peace is like art: building adaptive and responsive processes requires a creative act (73), art speaks in metaphors: metaphor is a creative act (72) Peacebuilding must be creative, understand, and use metaphors: picture better (73) (we need to envision/picture things better/differently) Art helps us to imagine the future, envision the possibilities: relationships are central to every form of art. About bringing people together in art and in peace: it [poetry/haiku] connects intuition, observation, and experience . Five words to help us focus on lederach"s question: agency, enfranchisement, citizenship, inclusion, and hope (cid:1, agency.
