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(Northern Ireland) Oral History and Conflict Resolution in an Intergenerational Art Project

Presented by: Jill Strauss, John Jay College of Criminal Justice CUNY

Presented at: 4th International Conference on Conflict Resolution Education

Date of Session: June 10, 2011

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Communities of Interest project participants at the Millennium Court Arts Centre

Portadown, Northern Ireland

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Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too?(William Blake, Songs of Innocence: On Another’s Sorrow, 1789)

Research Questions

1.  When parties in conflict are too hurt, positional, or traumatized to hear 

the other’s story can they see it and even feel empathy? I wanted to

find out whether interpreting visually someone else’s story would be

like walking in the other’s shoes for the artist participants andvalidating for the older participants to have their stories visualized in

an empathetic way by another.

2. When one party in the conflict acknowledges the other’s narrative or 

experience as valid is it easier for the other in turn, to accept thelegitimacy of the first party’s narrative or experience? If portrayals of 

 both/all sides of a conflict are exhibited in the same place thereby

validating at an institutional level all the truths, will it be easier for the

 parties involved to accept the other’s experience as valid as their own?

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Peace andConflict Resolution 

Education

Visual

Thinking

Strategies

Storytelling

and

Art Making

Self-Reflection

Memory and Imagination 

Walking in the Other’s Shoes

Multiple Perspective Taking

Listening and Paraphrasing

Empathy and Validation

Digging Deeper  

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(OH) Life History = (CR) Timeline Activity

Concentric Circles - Listening and

Paraphrasing Skills

Mirroring Activity

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Micro-Lab Activity – 

(OH) Deep Listening = (CR) Active Listening

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Empathic Perceptions by Nuala Gallagher 

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Love and Loss in the Milky Way by Fred Wilson,

2005

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Banner of Hope by Gillian Davidson

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Third of May 1808 Francisco de Goya

 Kigsmill Massacre Gillian Davidson

YesterdayToday

Internally

Displaced

Peruvian

Women

Third of 

May

 After 

Goya

Robert

Ballagh

Slaughter of 

the

 Innocents I:

 Execution at 

Szydlowiec,1942 

Meyer 

Kirshenblat

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Us and Them by Emma Buckley

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St. George's Cross  St. Andrew's Cross St. Patrick's CrossBritish Union Flag

The Four Provinces of 

Ireland

Ulster, Munster,Connaught and

Leinster 

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Hoping for a Sunny Day by Catherine McKenny

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You Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory by Steve Lally with Sadie Hamill

Like an old house at night with all the lamps lit and ancestors whispering 

inside… to understand history we have to go inside and listen to what they're

saying and look at the books and the pictures on the wall and smell the smells

The God of Small Things, Roy, 1997 

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Making Memories Matter project by the European Reminiscence Network

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Border Incident by Willie Doherty, 1994 

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