Institutional Affiliation
Nova Southeastern University
Start Date
17-1-2025 2:30 PM
End Date
17-1-2025 4:00 PM
Proposal Type
Presentation
Proposal Format
Virtual
Proposal Description
The Role of Film and Media in Cultivating Hope: A Conflict Resolution Platform: The role of film is that it not only provides humans with a visceral experience when we watch atrocities of war and injustices to innocent humans, but films also provide humans with a pause to consider alternatives as we reimagine conflict from a different trajectory with a future that includes peace and conflict transformation. This session will allow participants to gain insight into how to approach films and media from the positive side in that they offer people an opportunity to learn and that people themselves have the agency to support the change they want to see. Films/movies/media can spawn peace by leveraging a movement, resistance, or perhaps a full revolution. The session will display excerpts of powerful films/movies/media that derive from actual footage or real stories of conflict that have inflicted the lives of many innocent people, including our most vulnerable populations. The session will make a case that films/movies/media can provide a platform to teach peace, conflict resolution, and conflict transformation when done to inspire change and peacebuilding. The session will provide films/movies/media as sources for helping each person understand that it is the time to take a stand to support respect, empathy, diversity, equity, belonging, and inclusion. Participants will learn how film and media are powerful tools that can sustain meaningful peace and lead to violence de-escalation. Also, participants will learn about film's power to mobilize individuals, grassroots activism, peace, and resistance to violence. The session will cover the influence of media on the masses through movements for positive change, constructing alternatives to violence, and promoting connections through films and media. The session will allow participants to reimagine conflict with hope, peace, conflict resolution, and conflict transformation by experiencing the impact of films.
Included in
Communication Commons, Curriculum and Instruction Commons, Film and Media Studies Commons, Other Arts and Humanities Commons, Other Education Commons, Peace and Conflict Studies Commons
The Role of Film and Media in Cultivating Hope: A Conflict Resolution Platform
The Role of Film and Media in Cultivating Hope: A Conflict Resolution Platform: The role of film is that it not only provides humans with a visceral experience when we watch atrocities of war and injustices to innocent humans, but films also provide humans with a pause to consider alternatives as we reimagine conflict from a different trajectory with a future that includes peace and conflict transformation. This session will allow participants to gain insight into how to approach films and media from the positive side in that they offer people an opportunity to learn and that people themselves have the agency to support the change they want to see. Films/movies/media can spawn peace by leveraging a movement, resistance, or perhaps a full revolution. The session will display excerpts of powerful films/movies/media that derive from actual footage or real stories of conflict that have inflicted the lives of many innocent people, including our most vulnerable populations. The session will make a case that films/movies/media can provide a platform to teach peace, conflict resolution, and conflict transformation when done to inspire change and peacebuilding. The session will provide films/movies/media as sources for helping each person understand that it is the time to take a stand to support respect, empathy, diversity, equity, belonging, and inclusion. Participants will learn how film and media are powerful tools that can sustain meaningful peace and lead to violence de-escalation. Also, participants will learn about film's power to mobilize individuals, grassroots activism, peace, and resistance to violence. The session will cover the influence of media on the masses through movements for positive change, constructing alternatives to violence, and promoting connections through films and media. The session will allow participants to reimagine conflict with hope, peace, conflict resolution, and conflict transformation by experiencing the impact of films.