Welcome to The Arts of Inclusion (TAI) website. We are a network of academics and practitioners aimed at building expertise to critically assess the role of performing arts practices for peace education and inclusion in conflict settings. Between 2019-2024 the network involved a collaborative partnership between members with interdisciplinary expertise based in Australia, Poland, Columbia, Mexico, Brazil, Spain, Canada, Belgium, Bolivia and the United Kingdom.
The network was established with the support of the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council in February 2019[1], as part of their Global Challenges Research Fund. The grant was aimed initially to work with international members across a range of Latin American countries and the network grew from there. Our work reflected local development priorities on peace education through arts engagement with individuals affected by Colombia's internal armed conflict, and Mexico and Brazil's gang war.
The Principal Investigator was based at the University of Glasgow (Odena) with the Co-Investigators based at Juan N. Corpas University Foundation, Colombia (Zapata), and at the Autonomous University of Chihuahua, Mexico (González-Moreno).
The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) supported our activities in Scotland until 2024[2] and the Scottish Funding Council supported a related 10-month study on the role of music practices for peace education with a Co-Applicant from the College of Arts at the University of Glasgow (Green).
Together, we aimed to build the foundation for sustained research that will address key issues of pressing concern in the field.
In the coming months this website will be archived by Glasgow. The recorded workshops complementing our book Music and Social Inclusion are available through this Blog post: https://tai.international/blog/online-event-report-music-and-social-inclusion-international-research-and-practice-complex.
