Sounding Conflict

Fiona Magowan is Fellow and Research Lead at the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice and Professor of Anthropology at Queen’s University Belfast, UK. She is the author or editor of seven books, including Christianity, Conflict and Renewal in the Australia Pacific (2016). Julie M. Norman is Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations at University College London, UK. She writes widely on conflict, political violence, and resistance and is the author or co-editor of four books including Understanding Nonviolence (2015).Ariana Phillips-Hutton is Lecturer in Global Critical and Cultural Study of Music at the University of Leeds, UK. She is the author of Music Transforming Conflict (2020) and Associate Editor for the Oxford Handbook of Western Music and Philosophy (2020). Stefanie Lehner is Senior Lecturer in Irish Literature and Culture at Queen’s University Belfast, UK and Fellow at the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice. Her current research explores the role of the arts, specifically performance, in conflict transformation processes, with a focus on the Northern Irish context.Pedro Rebelo is Professor of Sonic Arts at Queen’s University Belfast, UK. His ongoing research interests include participatory sonic arts and immersive sound.

• AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresIntroduction: Sound Ambiguities Fiona Magowan (Queen's University Belfast, UK), Julie M. Norman (University College London, UK), Ariana Phillips-Hutton (Cambridge University, UK), Stefanie Lehner (Queens's University Belfast, UK) and Pedro Rebelo (Queen's University Belfast, UK)1. Sound Methodologies in Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding Fiona Magowan (Queen's University Belfast, UK), Julie M. Norman (University College London, UK), Ariana Phillips-Hutton (Cambridge University, UK), Stefanie Lehner (Queens's University Belfast, UK) and Pedro Rebelo (Queen's University Belfast, UK)2. Resistance: Performing the Frontline Julie Norman (University College London, UK)3. Resilience in Creative Practice in a Post-Conflict Context: Musicians Without Borders Fiona Magowan (Queen's University Belfast, UK)4. Remediating Relationships: Collaborative Storytelling and Conflict Ariana Phillips-Hutton (Cambridge University, UK)5. From Noises of Conflict to Dissonant Sounds of Reconciliation in Northern Irish TheatreStefanie Lehner (Queen's University Belfast, UK)6. Working through Creative Practice: Socially Engaged Arts Interventions Pedro Rebelo (Queen's University Belfast, UK)Conclusion Fiona Magowan (Queen's University Belfast, UK), Julie M. Norman (University College London, UK), Ariana Phillips-Hutton (Cambridge University, UK), Stefanie Lehner (Queens's University Belfast, UK) and Pedro Rebelo (Queen's University Belfast, UK)References Author IndexPartner IndexIndex

Perceptive and nuanced learnings extrapolated from sensitively devised and performed fieldwork from contrasting cultural contexts that have faced head-on conflict, violence, loss and trauma are presented here in a critical context, offering meaningful yet expertly informed ways forward in sound and music practice.