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SUMMARY:Art as a Tool for Peace Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Art Exhibition at Edinburgh Law School\, Old College\, South Bridge\, Edinburgh EH8 9YL \nPeaceRep and the Global Justice Academy are proud to announce a new art exhibition highlighting the role of art as a tool for local peace. This powerful exhibition brings together a series of works by young artists from across Syria and Yemen\, offering a glimpse into everyday life in some of the world’s most protracted conflicts. View the collections in the Edinburgh Law School cafe throughout summer 2022. \nAbout the Exhibition\nThe exhibition features a series of paintings created by a group of young Syrian artists called the Blue Team (Fariq Azraq in Arabic)\, who have collaborated to illustrate life in opposition-held areas of Syria during the Covid-19 pandemic. Earlier in 2021\, the artists produced two exhibitions in Syria – combining art\, music\, and activities – that offer powerful insights into the daily lives of Syrian displaced and ethnic minorities\, and demonstrate how art can bring people together and act as a tool for local peace. Now in Scotland for the first time\, this exhibition is an opportunity to view the paintings and hear the stories of these extraordinary young people. \nThe exhibition also features the work of award-winning Yemeni artist Shatha Altowai\, an IASH Artist Protection Fund Fellow. In “The White Canvas”\, Shatha addresses issues that she has experienced and observed throughout her life in Yemen\, specifically focussing on the last seven years since the eruption of the current war. She aims to highlight the lifestyles of Yemeni families living through the war\, their solidarity\, and how they seek to overcome the lack of basic necessities\, such as food\, water\, electricity\, fuel and security. Her work conveys the contradictory emotions of strength and fear that Yemeni families grapple with as part of their everyday experience. \nTogether these two sets of paintings offer a unique perspective on life in conflict zones\, and on the power of art to bring people together and contribute to local peace. \nView The Blue Team’s collection and Shatha Altowai’s The Family Series. \nAbout the Project\nThis exhibition is part of a research project supported by the FCDO-funded Covid Collective Research Platform\, and forms part of PeaceRep’s work on the nexus between the Covid-19 pandemic\, peace and conflict and the interplay between several layers of crises. In Syria\, PeaceRep Research Fellow Dr. Juline Beaujouan and two of her colleagues – Abdulah El hafi and Eyas Ghreiz – built on collaborations with local communities in opposition-held areas in the northwest of the country to investigate the shifting role of local civil society during the pandemic. \nFurther Reading\nArt as a tool for local peace: Reflections of young artists in Syrian opposition-held areas \nYoung artists illustrate life in Syrian opposition-held areas \nShatha Altowai \nThe Blue Team
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SUMMARY:Global Fragmentation and Peacemaking: Lessons from Non-Western Powers and their Conflict Management
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday 7 June \n16:00 – 17:30 BST \nMacClaren Stuart Room\, Old College\, The University of Edinburgh \nRegister to attend\nHosted by the the PeaceRep consortium and the Scottish Council of Global Affairs (SCGA)\, this panel will present findings of a multi-partner PeaceRep project on global fragmentations of peace approaches\, funded by the Foreign\, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). \nThe Global Transitions project – spearheaded by Edinburgh and St Andrews universities\, both partners in SCGA – is exploring motivations and approaches of non-Western interveners and how their approaches ‘land’ on the ground in select countries. A growing selection of findings from the project is published under a new series Global Transitions. \nThe event will feature regional and thematic experts working on the Global Transitions project. They will share key findings and policy recommendations from their ongoing work\, with plenty of opportunity for discussion and questions. \nThis panel event will be followed by a drinks reception. \nMore about the Global Transitions project: \nThe management of conflict and political transitions today is starkly different from what existed a decade or two ago. We are seeing dramatic changes in conflict dynamics and an infusion of new approaches by a more diverse set of actors. \n\nIn Syria\, the Geneva peace talks conducted under the auspices of the United Nations\, have been supplemented by Astana talks\, sponsored by Russia\, Turkey\, and Iran.\nIn Sudan\, the influence of the Troika – Norway\, the United Kingdom\, and the United States – which played pivotal roles in the Darfur conflict since 2003 and in the 2005 peace agreement leading to the independence of South Sudan\, has waned. The two neighbours – Egypt and Ethiopia – and the Gulf states are emerging as the main actors in Sudan’s current transition.\nIn April 2022\, President Macron announced the withdrawal of French troops supporting political transition in Mali. French priorities were deemed incompatible with those of the Mali military government in place since 2020. Soon after\, Mali authorities invited the Russian company Wagner to help in their fight against the jihadist groups. A couple of years earlier\, a similar story unfolded in the Central African Republic.\nIn Myanmar\, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations is the main mediator\, and China’s influence in conflict management is central.\nWho will emerge as the dominant mediator in Ukraine remains to be seen\, but several non-Western powers\, including Turkey\, are seen as pivotal in ensuring a successful process.\n\nThe era of liberal dominance in peace and transition management is unequivocally over. A new tapestry of international interveners mean that peace and transition processes have fractured forms of intervention that reflect a fracturing of the global order. These changes raise important questions about how approaches to peace and the nature of the global order are changing in the present\, and how they might look in the future. \n\nHow are we seeing the tapestry of international actors involved in peacemaking and peacebuilding change?\nAre new actors proposing new models of peacemaking and peacebuilding? How do these models fit with the prevailing liberal one?\nHow is the fractured nature of interventions in peace processes changing the prospects for peace and the peace settlements that emerge?\nWhat motivates non-Western interveners in their peacemaking activities?\nWhat differences can we see between regional and global interveners?\nHow are local actors navigating this new landscape\, and how is this shaping conflict outcomes and post-conflict governance?\nWhat influence do these developments have on the global international institutions and liberal norms that have underpinned the post-Cold War order?\n\nRead the full Global Transitions publications series.
URL:https://peacerep.org/event/global-fragmentation-and-peacemaking-lessons-from-non-western-powers/
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