Artists work to draw communities together, end conflict

JUBA, South Sudan - South Sudanese artists are using their work as a powerful tool to influence perceptions and bring peace and reconciliation among their communities torn apart by conflict.

James Aguer Garang, 40, has been an artist for about three decades and spent time as a refugee, first in Ethiopia and then in Kenya.

"I stayed in Kakuma refugee camp where I started training myself in art until I was employed as an artist in 1999-2003. Then in 2007 I went to study art in Nairobi and then came back to South Sudan in 2010," he said in Juba during South Sudan's maiden art exhibition.