Il contributo di una prospettiva artistica alla trasformazione dei conflitti: suggestioni e riflessioni in margine alle proposte di tre Maestri del Peacebuilding
The contribution of an artistic perspective to the transformation of conflicts: suggestions and reflections on the proposals of three Masters of Peacebuilding

Summary/Abstract: This essay examines the contribution that ‘artistic insights’ can offer to the theory and practice of peacebuilding, thereby taking into account the reflections of two pioneers in the field, Howard Zehr and John William Cooley. The first Author – widely considered as the ‘grandfather’ of restorative justice – has often taken profit by his expertise as a photographer, which affected his perspective(s) on justice both at a theoretical and a practical level. Conversely, Cooley – whose vital contribution to the theory of civil mediation is mostly connected to binding it to (a classical approach to legal) argumentation – has reflected on the role of music in the theory and practice of mediation. He suggested, in fact, a parallelism between being a mediator and a musician (both considered as a performer and as a composer). Through different disciplines and metaphoric images, both Zehr and Cooley show how arts can help reflecting on the perspective and angle through which a justice process is understood, envisioned and put into practice. Concluding remarks are elaborated through a reading of some argumentations drawn by John Paul Lederach’s very own The Moral Imagination.

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