Conflict Transformation through Culture: Peace-Building and the Arts - Graphic Report

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Conflict Transformation through Culture:

Peace-Building and the Arts April 6 to 10, 2014 Schloss Leopoldskron, Salzburg, Austria

ABOU T THE REP ORT ARTIST:

Ella Britton leads social design programs in the UK which aim to bring design and creative thinking to some of the country’s complex social challenges. She currently works at the Design Council leading the Knee High Design Challenge. This program is creating new services that aim to raise the health and wellbeing of children in their early years. Ella has also lead public sector innovation programs with thinkpublic, the NHS, the BBC, NESTA, The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, and the Alzheimer’s Society. She is co-writing and illustrating a series of children’s books that explore topics like normalness, wellness and play.

Ella has very generously agreed to the reproduction of her graphic drawings from Salzburg Global Seminar’s session Conflict Transformation through Culture: Peace-Building and the Arts and we at Salzburg Global Seminar would like to thank her for her hard work and generosity in doing so.

If any of you would like to contact Ella regarding her projects beyond Salzburg, she is available on Twitter @ellabritton or alternatively, via email, ellabritton@googlemail.com

ABOU T THE SESSION:

Conflict Transformation through Culture: Peace-Building and the Arts April 6 to 10, 2014 2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I and the beginning of a nearly half a century of industrialized conflict. This program will continue Salzburg Global’s series on “The Transformative Power of the Arts”, supported through our long-standing partnership with the Edward T. Cone Foundation. It will explore the role that cultural institutions and the arts have played - and can play - in pre- and postwar situations, in reconciliation and forgiveness, in post-conflict society rebuilding, and in conflict prevention. The main goal of the program will be to engage international institutions and innovators working in the areas of peace-building and conflict prevention, including cultural institutions, policy makers, NGO leaders, scholars, artists and the media, to understand and map the unique and often underestimated role that ‘soft power’ can play in peace-building and post-conflict societies. The program is designed to lay the foundations for a five-year series focused on specific conflict/post-conflict regions.

Why Salzburg?

The mission of Salzburg Global Seminar is to challenge current and future leaders to solve issues of global concern. To do this we design, facilitate and host international strategic convening and multi-year programs to tackle systems challenges critical for the next generation.

Originally founded in 1947 to encourage the revival of intellectual dialogue in post-war Europe, we are now a game-changing catalyst for global engagement on critical issues in education, health, environment, economics, governance, peace-building and more. From the start, Salzburg Global Seminar has broken down barriers separating people and ideas. We challenge countries at all stages of development and institutions across all sectors to rethink their relationships and identify shared interests and goals.

Today, our program framework has three cross-cutting clusters and addresses the underlying questions that hold keys to human progress: Imagination, Sustainability and Justice.

Our exclusive setting at Schloss Leopoldskron enables our participants to detach from their working lives, immerse themselves in the issues at hand and form new networks and connections. Participants come together on equal terms, regardless of age, affiliation, region or sector.

We maintain this energy and engagement through the Salzburg Global Fellowship, which connects our Fellows across the world. It provides a vibrant hub to crowdsource new ideas, exchange best practice, and nurture emerging leaders through mentoring and support.

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