International Journal of Art & Design Education

Cover image: Jounaid, Go Back To Where? © Jaiyana Chelikha (2025)

Special Issue: 'Peace', iJADE Conference 2024 Edition

'When the conference call was announced in Spring 2024, our conversations about peace were ongoing and included the keynote speakers, particularly John Johnston, the UNESCO Chair for Issues-Based Art Education based at ArtEZ University of the Arts in the Netherlands. With a recurring theme of peace ‘making’ as artistic practice, this led us to explore how visual artistic representations can challenge or highlight the absence of peace by depicting the lived realities of violence or the fear of violence (Möller & Bellmer 2023). We were keen to explore the potentialities of peace ‘making’ through art education, even when the conditions of positive peace – both the absence of violence and the presence of social justice – are not a lived reality. Here a belief in the possibilities for an alternative, peaceful future, pursued through art education, remains steadfast (Reardon & Cabezudo 2002).'
- Editorial: 'Imagining – and (Re)Imaging – Peace Through Art Education', Emma Arya-Manesh & Claire Penketh

This special issue includes contributions from keynote speakers John Johnston, Carly Bagelman and Yesid Paez, plus conference papers nominated for publication by delegates.

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Editorial : Imagining – and (Re)Imaging – Peace Through Art Education

Authors : Ema Arya-Manesh & Claire Penketh

Introduction (Open Access) : Art Education and Peace: Exploring the Empathetic Object-ive

Authors : John Johnston, Carly Bagelman, Marlene Wylie, Yesid Paez Cubides, Emma Arya-Manesh & Claire Penketh

Article (Open Access) : Critically Assessing Arts-Based Research: Moving Forward With Tension and Care

Author : Clemency Wood & Tabitha Millett

Article (Open Access) : Aesthetic Dissensus as Public Pedagogy: Exploring Contemporary Art that Counters Whiteness and Far-Right Ideologies in Mainstream Digital Spaces

Authors : Fiona O'Rourke

Article : Artist-Teacher Practices as Sites of Peace ‘Making’

Authors : Eileen Keane