Arts Approaches to Conflict

Conflict is an increasing feature of modern life, and very often it has disastrous and destructive outcomes. This volume examines the contribution that can be made by arts approaches, both to our understanding of conflict and to its constructive resolution. The contributors describe ways in which the arts can be used to understand the process of conflict and develop new ways of resolving it with less destructive results. Each art form has something unique to contribute about this area, the introduction summarises the variety of contributions from the visual arts, drama, music, stories, puppetry, masks and the links between them.