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Artes y posconflicto

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Beyond the question, can the art make us better people and today the debate opens on the possible signing of a treaty to terminate the armed conflict in the country. Clearly, in accordance with this logic, post-conflict concerns the moment after the signature of that treaty and not, as it is wrong to understand, the actual cessation of the social conflict, which, among other things, has been the cause of this internal war of more than 50 years. John Carey (Carey, 2005, p. 106) agrees with us in answering the question about art as a determining factor in the formation of better human beings. And that we cannot enshrine the responsibility for what should be the task of education as a whole. It is clear that training in, with, the arts makes an important contribution to this complete education; and we could then attribute to the fact that the absence of the arts in our official curricula has resulted in an ‘incomplete’ subject. Historically, we found examples of the use of the arts for panfletarian, pro-dictatorial, absolutist and bloody regimes. However, we could not say or deny the merits of the art, as the arts are not good or bad in themselves, but the instrumentalisation of art for propaganda, ideologising or even educational purposes is one of the issues at hand: art can be a very powerful tool at the moment of alienation. Fortunately, also historically, we have many examples of art as a liberator and transformer of consciousness and societies. The role of the arts in societies cannot be limited, as we saw in TV messages, to switching a rifle to a guitar; this does not mean anything, if there is no clear insight into what it means to access art through education or even through mass media consumption alone. Art contributes to the subject’s awareness, to the development of their perception of the world through senses (? isothesis), but also to the liberation of the emotional world. But it is not left there, as the matter would be very simple and we would only accept a purely hedonist function of art. Educating, training with art makes us more human, that is to say, it separates us a little more from our animality through creative processes (not exclusive to art, of course) and the construction of alternative forms of knowledge. This is why talking about art and post-conflict places us in a scenario where the arts will be taken seriously in education policies. It is an opportunity for what we appoint as art, as an artistic event, to be accessible to all people. Not only the products of mass media culture, but the expressions that have hitherto been proscribed to areas that have been chosen (by less and less fortunately), which are exclusive and operate under the logic of a supposed hegemony of the good taste dictated by the fee and the closed circulation circuits of the works. Talking about art and post-conflict is to understand the role of the arts in the education and training of our children and young people. While some make sure that peace is only achieved when a generation is born without resentment and anxiety of revenge, we can anticipate that moment when we have had the opportunity to access some other ways to educate and train as subjects. It will not be enough for the gear to be present in the new social scenario. We need to formulate policy and we need to train those who will be in charge of giving meaning to the arts at school, in community spaces, in mass media, ultimately in life.

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