L’usage des arts pour le dialogue environnemental au Sahel

Fatoumata  Sow; Lansine  Sountoura; Aminata  Niang; Haoussa  Ndiaye; Imogen  Bellwood-Howard; Peter  Taylor; Julie Doyle

doi:10.19088/IDS.2022.082

L’usage des arts pour le dialogue environnemental au Sahel

Translated title of the contribution: The use of the arts for environmental dialogue in the Sahel

Fatoumata Sow, Lansine Sountoura, Aminata Niang, Haoussa Ndiaye, Imogen Bellwood-Howard, Peter Taylor, Julie Doyle

School of Art and Media

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Art has been used to communicate environmental concerns in Sahelian countries. Nevertheless, arts-led dialogue between policy actors and citizens is rare, despite its potential to find solutions to complex socio-environmental problems. Harnessing this potential is essential as challenges such as climate change accelerate. Factors that constrain dialogue include a strongly hierarchical and sectorally divided professional and social context. Artists and citizens also risk confrontation with authorities when they express controversial opinions. Not every situation is therefore appropriate for arts-led dialogue. Yet, when facilitated with humour and effective examples, it can create a relaxed space for intersectoral deliberation. Awareness of arts-led dialogue processes could be increased, along with more research on the contexts in which they are appropriate and how best to use them.

Translated title of the contribution	The use of the arts for environmental dialogue in the Sahel
Original language	French
Type	Policy briefing
Media of output	online
Number of pages	4
Place of Publication	UK
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.19088/IDS.2022.082
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2022

Keywords

art
environmental
dialogue
Sahel

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