Abstract
This article provides an analytical case study of a participatory youth-led filmmaking project in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Using the conceptual framework of hybridity, it critically considers whether and to what extent youth centred, participatory arts projects can facilitate the emergence of a positive hybrid peace. It reflects on three themes—solidarity; creativity as politics; and participation as norm—that speak to the opportunities and challenges encountered during the project. The analysis demonstrates that while participatory arts have the potential to induce a more emancipatory vision of peace, that, and mirroring the warnings from development studies, their effects are not a given and challenges and blockages persist.
Highlights
This article explores the potential of participatory arts and youth-led peacebuilding to create a space of positive hybrid peace
The article focuses on a hybrid youth-led participatory arts project in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), IZAZOV.1
Positive hybrid peace is taken to mean an emancipatory form of peacebuilding that opens up a space for new voices to be heard, and new understandings and experiences of peace to be explored (MacGinty & Richmond, 2016)
Summary
This article explores the potential of participatory arts and youth-led peacebuilding to create a space of positive hybrid peace. Actors interact to produce what might be termed a positive hybrid peace (MacGinty & Richmond, 2016) In exploring these themes, the article focuses on a hybrid youth-led participatory arts project in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), IZAZOV (the Challenge).. As a result of a series of workshops and mentoring exchanges, IZAZOV participants created short films about their lives, capturing stories they identified as relevant and important. In analysing these outputs and the process of developing and delivering a youth-led participatory arts project, we explore the emancipatory potential for this mode of peacebuilding
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