NSEAD Peace | iJADE conference 2024

In response to UNESCO’s recently published peace education strategy (UNESCO, 2024), we might consider the extent to which art and design education play an active role in the promotion of forms of peace that expose the roots of inequality and oppression, or for imagining a just ‘new world’ (Darder, 2009)? With this, what are the implications for art and design educators offering spaces to critically examine the conditions in which peace either thrives or diminishes? What role can art and design play in actionable, socially-just peace?

On Thursday the 7th of November John Johnston, UNESCO Chair, Issues-Based Arts Education, Intercultural Dialogue and Social Cohesion, will give a keynote in the morning and a workshop in the afternoon.

On Saturday the 9th of November, John Johnston will give part 2 of his keynote on peace.