Karen Peters

The arts for reconciliation have been used increasingly in recent years as a vehicle for bridging cultural divides, celebrating diversity, promoting cross-cultural dialogue and understanding, and challenging stereotypes (Oddie, 2005). The ARROW programme (Art: A Resource for Reconciliation Over the World) is an emerging network of people, organizations and institutions with an interest in and commitment to developing the creative arts as a resource for such participatory conflict transformation processes (Oddie, 2005: 22).