The art of plurality: participation, voice, and plural memories of community peace

This article’s central focus is on exploring the interplays between plurality and methodological approaches in peace research, through engaging with insights from arts methods participatory action research (PAR). Specifically, these suggests that they have significant potential to aid plural dialogue, intergenerational memory, young people’s active participation post-conflict communities, thus can further extend understandings of research. Furthermore, article proposes this creative methodology contribute three parts namely, facilitation, ‘voice’, participation. also draws connections methods, PAR, decolonising knowledge production, specifically relation attempting prioritise local forms production. In doing so, critically reflects some challenges limitations approach attempts at production The article, illustrated examples argues allows individuals groups understand multiple past experiences events, allow for a shared acknowledgement frictional conversations about present future.