Laurel Borisenko has spent more than a decade working in humanitarian aid and complex emergencies around the world. She has held senior management roles in a variety of international NGOs and has worked with UN organizations, providing refugee support, emergency relief, and child protection. Laurel brings first-hand knowledge of both the political and the personal aspects of forced migration.
The Moral Imagination: Peacebuilding & The Arts
Speaker(s): Laurel Borisenko
Date: Summer 2017
Length: 5h 11m
Product ID: RGDL4732S
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Description
When watching the nightly news it is difficult not to despair at the toxic local and global violence, and the seemingly impossible task of addressing root causes. Philosopher Bruno Bettelheim has described violence as 'the behavior of someone incapable of imagining other solutions to the problem at hand.' (in Lederach, 2009). It follows that overcoming violence requires imagination, which translates into creative acts.
As image-bearers of the Creator God, we have the capacity and calling to search for creative solutions that have power to disrupt the cycle of violence and foster a cycle of healing. This course will explore how communities that have been through violent conflict use arts-based strategies (focusing on theatre) to move toward healing and reconciliation and ultimately to peacebuilding.
A - Moral Imagination and Our Creative Identity
B - Cycles of Violence, Cycles of Healing / Arts-based Interventions
C - Creative Expression and Our Christian Response of Healing and Reconciliation
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