Existence in itself is an embodiment of both human activities and the universe.  We live in systems in which there is an intertwined embodiment of dynamics. These dynamics manifest in the relationships, which exist among humans, and in their inevitable communion with the ecosystem. Humans are embodiments of actions and reactions that are either positive or negative. All these variables are embodied responses, and they in a way manifest the intrinsic capacity of the human society to express her agency as found in the human embodiment of freedom.

Some of these dynamics that are visible in our human systems are represented in contexts of conflicts characterized by violence. Violence has a surmountable effect on the human society and one of the responses of man to this phenomenon is non-violent peacebuilding intervention. Arts appear to be a major tool for peacebuilding, as it is an embodiment of the initiatives of man encapsulated in his feelings, ideas and actions. It tends to arouse society to transformation since it is an incarnated presence of the skills for attaining possible peace, reduction of violence, healing and wellbeing.

Paulo Fereire in his Pedagogy of the oppressed views Arts as the freedom of human agency to translating/interpreting the words of dialogue into a non verbal but visual form of communication. As a contemporary intervention tool, he ascribes it to being revolutionary. Arts as practice of embodiment therefore in Fereire’s context would mean another form of education through which communication makes human life hold meaning, being the result of critical thinking that perceives reality as a process.

Since transformation evolves around system-thinking and the fact of a relationship/network of systems, Suzi Gablik in The Reenchantment of Art presents the individual as an ‘engaged artist’ describing the peacebuilder. For her, in the process of restoration, Art moved by empathic attunement, not tied to an art-historical logic but orienting the world to the cycles of life, helps us to recognize that we are part of an ‘interconnected web’ that ultimately we can not dominate. This Art offers according to her, a completely different way of looking at the world.

It is a process of healing and at the same time, it is healing itself as it is an embodiment of the whole being of man.

Arts is both a Process and Product. It is for me, a means to attaining a goal and at the same time, it is the goal that has been attained. . Paulette More and Howard Zehr in the article – Art That Heals, capture the core/essence of the phenomenological arts as a peacebuilding tool thus,

Where so-called rational approaches to resolving conflict prove ineffective or insufficient, the arts in every medium-visual, arts, theatre, dance, literature, and film-can be deployed as tools for “creating opportunities for building across differences, addressing legacies of past violence, and imagining a now future” ‘.