Peace Museums:
A contribution to remembrance, reconciliation, art and peace

Fifth International Museums for Peace Conference Papers

Guernica-Luno, 1-7th May 2005

1 – 15 Introductions (Raul Onaindia, Peter van den Dungen, Iratxe Momoitio)

18 – 132 The Contribution of Art to a Culture of Peace

• Pere Ribera El Arte: Vehículo Para la Paz

• Alex Carrascosa Gestión Simbólica de Espacios de Conflict a Través de la Expresión Plástica

• William Kelly Art and its Contribution to Peace and Reconciliation; Plaza of Fire and Light

• Javier Fernández Simbología de Paz. Reflexiones Teóricas

• Clive Barrett Images and Symbols of Peace

• Peter Nias Do the Arts Really Strive for Peace ?

• Cynthia Cohen The Contributions of the Arts to a Culture of Peace in the Aftermath of Violence

• Joyce Apsel Creating Spaces and Dialogues for Peace: The Puffin Forum Alternatives to an Environment of Violence and War in the United States

• Kyoko Okumoto The Role of Drama for Regional Reconciliation: Ho’o Pono Pono: Pax Pacifica Proposed by Johan Galtung and Trascend-Japan

• Yasuo Kawabata Introduction of the Activities in Japan to Create a Kern for Peace with Emphasis on a Mixed Chorus Suite “The Devil’s Gluttony” and The High School Students’ Efforts to Build a Children Statue for World Peace-Kyoto

• Ryoko Yamaguchi Peace Education in Japan: The Case of Doshisha Junior High School

• Concha Martínez El Museo, el Barro y la Tolerancia

• Ishaq Ashfaq Creating Peace Through Art and Sport

• Declaración: La Afirmación de Gernika Sobre Arte y Paz / Adierazpena: Artea Eta Bakeari Buruzko Baieztapena Gernikan / The Gernika Statement on Art and Peace

• Conclusions

133 – 198 Peace Museums, Seeds of Reconciliation in the World

• Carlos Villan Propuestas Para la Paz

• Johan Galtung A Peace Museum I Would Like to Visit Some Day

• Mª Antonietta Malleo Museum, Art and Education to Nonviolence

• Carlos Martín Beristain Reconciliación: Desafíos y Experiencias

• Michael M. Gondwe The Importance of Remembrance to Build Peace: A Case Study of Robben Island Museum in South Africa

• Ikuro Anzai Introduction of the Renewal Project of the Kyoto Museum for World Peace, the A-Bomb Day Memorial, Haiku Meeting and the Japanese Constitution Article 9 Message Project With Special Emphasis on the Role Of Arts

• Carolyn Rapkievian The National Museum of the American Indian: Cultural Reconciliation and the Seeds of World Peace

• Ereshnee Naidu Healing the Wounds of the Past Through Memorialisation

• Chikara Tsuboi Liverpool and Hanaoka: Two Museums of Reconciliation

• Juan Gutierrez Gernika Gernikara. De Otra Manera

• Conclusions

199 – 264 The Importance of Memory for Building a World in Peace

• Carmelo Angulo La Importancia de la Memoria Para Construir un Mundo en Paz

• Jean De Wandelaer Corazón, Memoria y Paz

• Gabriela Cauduro El Movimiento de Derechos Humanos en Argentina en la Construcción de la Paz

• Josep Fontana La Necesidad de la Memoria

• Ronald Chin-Jung Tsao A Balm for the Wounds of History: Peace Museums and Human Rights Parks in Taiwan

• Carol Rank Remembrance and Reconciliation: Public Spaces, Collective Memory and the Development of a Municipal Peace Identity in Coventry, UK

• Julie Higashi Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto Japan

• Yumiko Nogami How Can We Pass on the Memory to the Next Generation: Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• Jaromír Hanák Materializing the Idea of the Monument to the Victims of the Battle of Austerlitz

• Tsukasa Yajima Peace Road: Workshop for Peace and Human Rights

• Conclusions

265 – 353 Peace Museums in the World

• Iratxe Momoitio El Museo de la Paz de Gernika: Un Museo Para el Recuerdo, un Museo Para el Futuro / Gernika Peace Museum: A Museum to Remember the Past, a Museum for the Future

• Kazuyo Yamane Characteristics of Peace Museums in Japan

• Marti Olivella Castillo por la Paz de Figueres: Proyecto de Reconversión del Castillo de San Ferran de Figueres en Castillo por la Paz

• Anatoly Ionesov International Museum of Peace and Solidarity, Samarkand: Towards a Culture of Peace Through Citizen Diplomacy, Culture and Arts

• Soth Plai Ngarm Preventing Future Genocide: A Vision for Peace Museum in Cambodia

• Sultam Somjee Towards Community Peace and Justice Museums of Canada

• Gunila Cedrenius Almost as Long as the Pax Romana: A Vision of the Future Swedish Peace Museum at Uppsala Castle

• Peter van den Dungen Nobel Peace Center, Oslo

• Lucetta Sanguinetti Proposal of Two New Peace Museums in Italy. Hypothesis of a Peace Museums National Network as a Territorial Aimed Strategy. Research and Theoretic Thinking

• Natalie Heidaripour The Herbert Museum and Art Gallery, Coventry

• Olalekan Akinade National War Museum of Nigeria, Reconciliation and the Culture of Peace

• Maria Sancho Not to Forget

• Johan Galtung Developing a Museum for Peace in Caen, Normandie, France

353 – 445 Others

• Thomas Lutz The Art of Memory: Art and Pedagogy in Memorial Museums

• Tomislav Sola Can Theory of Heritage Help Peace?

• Jordi Padró Museo de la Paz de Gernika / Gernikako Bakearen Museoa. Renunciar a Olvidar, Renunciar a la Venganza

• Karmele Barandiaran El Museo Zumalakarregi: Un Museo de Guerra Convertido en Centro de Referencia del País Vasco en el Siglo Xix

• Ashley Woods Insecurity: Hiroshima, Chernobyl and After…

• Chuck Overby I Am Addicted to Rules of War. Help Cure My Illness. Teach Me Your Article 9 Rules of Law

• Xesús R. Jares El Papel de los Museos de la Paz en la Difusión de la Educación y la Cultura de Paz

• Xesús R. Jares Aipaz: Asociación Española de Investigación Para la Paz

• Wulff E. Brebeck What Is IC MEMO?

• Jean Marc De Wandelaer Coalición Internacional de Sitios Históricos de Conciencia

• María Oianguren Gernika Gogoratuz: Centro de Investigación Por la Paz

• Jeremy Gilley Peace One Day

• Ludo Docx Iragana Gogoan, Oraina Eta Geroa Eraikitzeko

446 – 480 Appendices (International Network of Museums for Peace, Final Programme of the Conference, Credits, Photos of the Conference, Participants List)