Arts and Peace Encounters

Special Event

International Geneva and Peacebuilding

Arts and Peace Encounters

Geneva Peacebuilding Platform, Caux Initiatives of Change Foundation, Kofi Annan Foundation

18/10/2024 @ 09:00 - 10:30
Auditorium Ivan Pictet (pétale 1) – Hybrid

Art plays a crucial role in societal transformation, offering individuals and communities empathy, hope, and the motivation to take action. By engaging our imagination, art encourages a shift from binary and linear thinking to a holistic experience. Various strategies have been developed to integrate art into conflict regions and fragile contexts, highlighting its transformative potential.

The Arts and Peace Encounters Event is designed as an immersive journey through different forms of artistic expression, including poetry, theater, music, and visual arts, combined with storytelling and short talks from artists, peacebuilders, and experts at the intersection of art and peace.

This event is made possible with the financial support of the Permanent Mission of the United States of America to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva.

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Theater & Conflict Resolution

Dr. Guila Clara Kessous, Peace Ambassador, UNESCO Artist, and founder of the Sarah & Hajar Accords

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JerusalemS

Presentation of a collaborative project of Licra Geneva with Geneva’s Institut des Cultures Arabes et Mediterraneennes, designed to weave links between communities, whatever their religion origins or lifestyle choices, in a secular and universalist spirit. The presentation will be followed by a lute musical interlude. The project includes the display of an 8 metre fresco created with Swiss artist François Burland, conceived as a manifesto and called upon to travel and inspire dialogue forums and encounters between people, and the reading of short verses created in a workshop with Swiss writer, Sandra Modiano. (in French and English)

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Carole Fumeaux, Secretary General of Licra Geneva

Alain Bittar Director of the Institut des Cultures Arabes et Méditerranéennes (ICAM)

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The role of the Arts in the liberation of the apartheid regime in South Africa

Diwele Molale Lubi is of South African origins. He is a choreographer, dance artist, conference speaker, teacher and artistic director at Matlosana Centre for the Arts (Cie Matlosana) company.

Delphine Digonnet, Musician/Singer/songwriter under the name Del Phyn, lead singer of the tropical band Zy-amm in Geneva, Life coach, Dance instructor and manager of Danceteam International Geneva.

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Colombia Experience: Music and gender for peace

Alejandra Quintana Martínez, Director of the Equity for Peace Strategic Line at Alianza para la Paz, APAZ, will present the ACORDES project implemented in Colombia in partnership with Kofi Annan Foundation, and Fundación Nacional Batuta on peace and gender equity through music education as part of the initiative “Voices of Reconciliation”.

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A Swiss perspective on culture and peace

Rudi von Planta, Peace Governance, and Equality Section, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, based on the paper: “Réflexions : culture et pérennisation de la paix”.

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Painting Unveiling

By Fernando Cometto, a contemporary Argentinian painter, an artist-in-residence during Geneva Peace Week. He is an artist who will have actively participated during the week, engaging with attendees and capturing the essence of their conversations in a unique piece of art that he will present during the Arts and Peace Encounters.