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Artistic Activism

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Global Warming, Militarism and Nonviolence

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A great deal of nonviolent activism is dedicated to attempts to educate and influence people’s attitudes. Art is a particularly powerful way of doing this. As Sophie Kerr wrote: ‘If peace … only had the music and pageantry of war, there’d be no more wars.’1

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Branagan, M. (2013). Artistic Activism. In: Global Warming, Militarism and Nonviolence. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137010100_6

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