Dr Cynthia Cohen, Dr Toni Shapiro-Phim andArmine Avetisyan, Brandeis University, USA

The Program in Peacebuilding and the Arts (PBA) at Brandeis University, in the United States, is excited to share recent initiatives and developments, as well as to explore opportunities for collaboration. Cynthia Cohen, PhD, Toni Shapiro-Phim, PhD, and Armine Avetisyan, MA, introduce Imagining Together Platform for Arts, Culture and Conflict Transformation (IMPACT), a global undertaking that nurtures the arts, culture and conflict transformation ecosystem and field, and spotlight documentation and celebration of the work of Jane Wilburn Sapp, African- American cultural worker, musician and educator, in relation to struggles for racial justice and voting rights. They also touch on PBA’s work with UNESCO, among other activities.

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The Conference was organised as part of the AHRC/ESRC funded Partnership for Conflict, Crime and Security Research project Sounding Conflict: From Resistance to Reconciliation 2017-2021.