Cultures of Sustainable Peace - by Hyab Teklehaimanot Yohannes & Alison Phipps & Tawona Sitholé

About the Book

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.

Book Synopsis

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.

Review Quotes

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!

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.

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.

About the Author

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.