"People from all over the globe rely on the power of art and culture to preserve, heal, reconcile and peace-build," says a new online study. "Culture and Conflict" investigates how art is helping in times of war, conflict and violence. The project features studies on music and stereotypes among the Roma community, billboards and social inequality in South Africa, cartoons and political upheaval in Lebanon, mixed media and intracultural collaboration in Sri Lanka, and ceramics and cultural identity among vulnerable populations in Columbia. “When people are forced to repeal their own culture, the result is a hopeless person forced to be opportunist and violent, with no moral limits and bounds," says Art for Refugees Director Sara Green. The project was edited by Amanda Fortier for the Power of Culture, a Netherlands site about culture and development. (Thanks, Craig Zelizer.) [LINK]