We Don’t Do Choirs and Football Clubs

20″ x 20″ x 1.5″ acrylic on canvas.   

Last semester, I spent a class discussing the 1990s wars in the Balkans. This got me reading up on peacebuilding.

Ongoing criticism in the field argues that liberal models of peacebuilding and civil society reject local avenues of peacebuilding—especially when it comes to cultural stuff. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, for example, research has found that only “libero-normative” cultural projects (e.g., human rights training) get EU peacebuilding funding (Daieff 2017). Meanwhile…

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