Street Arts Festival Mostar: Curatorial agency, spatial transformation and artpeace formation

Artpeace represents a conceptual framing of the synergy between the arts and peacemaking, as well as a methodological strategy for addressing war and political conflict through the arts. Developing the concept of artpeace , this book investigates how local art projects in seven locations across Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America have played a role in broader national peace projects.

These essays bring together peace and conflict scholarship and arts-based studies of social movements in conflict-affected societies to examine the how the arts could offer an opportunity to shape peace processes in emancipatory ways. And it examines the blockages that, at times, prevent them from making a tangible difference to the variations of peace being designed.