Teaching Peace Education Through Art

As I began penning this initial issue of Art Education, I encountered a striking historical moment with the bleak picture of our future. Amid the Ukraine–Russia war, another tragic war in Israel and Palestine has also occupied the media. Watching this reality of destruction mediated through news reports from a geographically distant place led to an initial question: Is it real?

Unlike Baudrillard’s (1994) media simulacra theorized on the basis of the Gulf War to stress the media construction of being real without reality, we are now witnessing the excruciating reality of wars that are filled with extremely turbulent moments—horror, fear, rage, and mourning reverberating through the bombed and fallen buildings among the piles of dead bodies. It is total dehumanization beyond our imagination. In this disheartening hyper-affective circumstance of genocide, I question whose bodies will be disposed and which affective stories will go unnoticed or raised, and for what purpose? The ultra-complex weave of governments’ ideological conflicts, desire for the occupation of land, military brutality, and media coverage all swallow up civilians’ desperate utterances for life, hope, peace, and safety—particularly for children. Such a hyper-power matrix violently silences children and youth to death, but also mercilessly undermines and obliterates the space in children’s lives where they can eat, play, learn, live safely, and in peace. Where is a human’s right and a child’s right in particular? Where is humanity?

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Publication Date January 24, 2024
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    • As I began penning this initial issue of Art Education, I encountered a striking historical moment with the
    • bleak picture of our future. Amid the Ukraine–Russia war, another tragic war in Israel and Palestine has
    • also occupied the media. Watching this reality of destruction mediated through news reports from a
    • geographically distant place led to an initial question: Is it real?
    • Unlike Baudrillard’s (1994) media simulacra theorized on the basis of the Gulf War to stress the media
    • construction of being real without reality, we are now witnessing the excruciating reality of wars that are filled with
    • extremely turbulent moments—horror, fear, rage, and mourning reverberating through the bombed and fallen
    • buildings among the piles of dead bodies. It is total dehumanization beyond our imagination. In this disheartening
    • hyper-affective circumstance of genocide, I question whose bodies will be disposed and which affective stories will
    • go unnoticed or raised, and for what purpose? The ultra-complex weave of governments’ ideological conflicts, desire
    • for the occupation of land, military brutality, and media coverage all swallow up civilians’ desperate utterances for
    • life, hope, peace, and safety—particularly for children. Such a hyper-power matrix violently silences children and
    • youth to death, but also mercilessly undermines and obliterates the space in children’s lives where they can eat,
    • play, learn, live safely, and in peace. Where is a human’s right and a child’s right in particular? Where is humanity?