About the Project:
Conflict Resolution, Arts and iNtercultural Experience (CRANE) was formed as a research initiative to explore the applicability of arts-based approaches to cross-cultural conflict.
Multicultural communities, like those that form the heart of Vancouver, require conflict resolution approaches that welcome diverse ways of understanding conflict, and the social relationships in which conflict arises. The creative arts offer promising opportunities to address cross-cultural conflict, providing ways for cultural signs and symbols to be communicated. Such approaches focus on identity and meaning-making processes, and draw on individual and group capacities for imagining creative solutions to difficult community problems.
The project’s goals are to:
- support new university-community-arts partnerships to contribute to the capacities of Vancouver community agencies to serve multicultural populations;
- build connections among community agencies, arts organizations and conflict resolution practitioners concerned with addressing cross-cultural conflict in Vancouver;
- demonstrate the feasibility of designing creative conflict resolution processes that function effectively across cultural boundaries;
- provide cutting-edge opportunities for mediators and dialogue facilitators from multiple cultural backgrounds to prevent and address community conflicts;
- develop a set of best practices for creative cross-cultural conflict resolution;
- Advance theory and practice about the nexus of conflict resolution and the arts for use in other settings in Vancouver, and in other communities in Canada and around the world.
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International Poetry Contest
Writing New Lines for Peace
Theme: Animating Peace through Poetry
Poetry Contest Winners Announced!
CRANE Retreat Readings
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