Reconciliation: Building a Culture of Peace

This chapter focusses on a range of societal domains through which reconciliation and a culture of peace can and should be nourished: education and the media; arts, symbols, and ritual; sport; and space and the built environment. The chapter begins by exploring the concepts of reconciliation and a culture of peace and the mechanisms and potential for widespread identity and social-psychological change after conflict. A theme throughout this chapter is the methods and impact of creating contact between estranged peoples in a variety of settings, and the development of intercultural respect and understanding. We also focus on how peace entails new or transformed cultural products such as songs, sculptures, sporting competitions, emblems, debates and discourses, or architecture.