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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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