PEACE - iJADE Hybrid Conference

Annual conference for iJADE the International Journal of Art and Design Education). This year’s conference will be held in partnership with Liverpool Hope University, with the theme of Peace.

Given the prevalence of contemporary inter-state and intra-state conflicts, the ongoing disruptive influence of the global pandemic, and our existential struggle to avert climate crisis, the peace agenda has become more prominent in all forms, levels and dimensions of education.

In response to UNESCO’s recently published peace education strategy (UNESCO, 2024), to what extent might art and design education play an active role in the promotion of forms of peace that expose the roots of inequality and oppression, or for imagining a just ‘new world’? What are the implications for art and design educators offering spaces to critically examine the conditions in which peace either thrives or diminishes? What role can art and design play in actionable, socially-just peace?