Acting Together II: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict : Building Just and Inclusive Communities / Volume II, Building just and inclusive communities

Acting Together, Volume ll, continues from where the first volume ends documenting exemplary peacebuilding performances in regions marked by social exclusion structural violence and dislocation. Acting Together: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict is a two-volume work describing peacebuilding performances in regions beset by violence and internal conflicts. Volume I, Resistance and Reconciliation in Regions of Violence , emphasizes the role theatre and ritual play both in the midst and in the aftermath of direct violence, while Volume II: Building Just and Inclusive Communities , focuses on the transformative power of performance in regions fractured by "subtler" forms of structural violence and social exclusion. Volume I: Resistance and Reconciliation in Regions of Violence focuses on the role theatre and ritual play both in the midst and in the aftermath of violence. The performances highlighted in this volume nourish and restore capacities for expression, communication, and transformative action, and creatively support communities in grappling with conflicting moral imperatives surrounding questions of justice, memory, resistance, and identity. The individual chapters, written by scholars, conflict resolution practitioners, and artists who work directly with the communities involved, offer vivid firsthand accounts and analyses of traditional and nontraditional performances in Serbia, Uganda, Sri Lanka, Palestine, Israel, Argentina, Peru, India, Cambodia, Australia, and the United States. Complemented by a website of related materials, a documentary film, Acting Together on the World Stage , that features clips and interviews with the curators and artists, and a toolkit, or "Tools for Continuing the Conversation," that is included with the documentary as a second disc, this book will inform and inspire socially engaged artists, cultural workers, peacebuilding scholars and practitioners, human rights activists, students of peace and justice studies, and whoever wishes to better understand conflict and the power of art to bring about social change. The Acting Together project is born of a collaboration between Theatre Without Borders and the Program in Peacebuilding and the Arts at the International Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life at Brandeis University. The two volumes are edited by Cynthia E. Cohen, director of the aforementioned program and a leading figure in creative approaches to coexistence and reconciliation; Roberto Gutierrez Varea, an award-winning director and associate professor at the University of San Francisco; and Polly O. Walker, director of Partners in Peace, an NGO based in Brisbane, Australia.

Acting Together, Volume ll, continues from where thefirst volume ends documenting exemplary peacebuilding performancesin regions marked by social exclusion structural violence anddislocation. Acting Together: Performance and theCreative Transformation of Conflict is a two-volume workdescribing peacebuilding performances in regions beset by violenceand internal conflicts. Volume I, Resistance and Reconciliationin Regions of Violence, emphasizes the role theatre and ritualplay both in the midst and in the aftermath of direct violence,while Volume II: Building Just and Inclusive Communities,focuses on the transformative power of performance in regionsfractured by "subtler" forms of structural violence and socialexclusion. Volume I: Resistance and Reconciliation in Regionsof Violence focuses on the role theatre and ritual play bothin the midst and in the aftermath of violence. The performanceshighlighted in this volume nourish and restore capacities forexpression, communication, and transformative action, andcreatively support communities in grappling with conflicting moralimperatives surrounding questions of justice, memory, resistance,and identity. The individual chapters, written by scholars,conflict resolution practitioners, and artists who work directlywith the communities involved, offer vivid firsthand accounts andanalyses of traditional and nontraditional performances in Serbia,Uganda, Sri Lanka, Palestine, Israel, Argentina, Peru, India,Cambodia, Australia, and the United States. Complemented by awebsite of related materials, a documentary film, ActingTogether on the World Stage, that features clips andinterviews with the curators and artists, and a toolkit, or "Toolsfor Continuing the Conversation," that is included with thedocumentary as a second disc, this book will inform and inspiresocially engaged artists, cultural workers, peacebuilding scholarsand practitioners, human rights activists, students of peace andjustice studies, and whoever wishes to better understand conflictand the power of art to bring about social change. The ActingTogether project is born of a collaboration between TheatreWithout Borders and the Program in Peacebuilding and the Arts atthe International Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life atBrandeis University. The two volumes are edited by Cynthia E.Cohen, director of the aforementioned program and a leading figurein creative approaches to coexistence and reconciliation; RobertoGutierrez Varea, an award-winning director and associate professorat the University of San Francisco; and Polly O. Walker, directorof Partners in Peace, an NGO based in Brisbane, Australia.

Acting Together: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict is a two-volume work describing peacebuilding performances in regions beset by violence and internal conflicts. Whereas Volume I, Resistance and Reconciliation in Regions of Violence, emphasizes the role theatre and ritual play both in the midst and in the aftermath of direct violence, Volume II, Building Just and Inclusive Communities, focuses on the transformative power of performance in regions fractured by "subtler" forms of structural violence and social exclusion. The case studies in this volume document examples from Afghanistan, Australia, Ghana, the Netherlands, South Africa, and the United States. This volume also offers resources, tools, and recommendations to help educators, artists, students, policymakers, and funders alike to become involved with, and contribute to, the emerging field of peacebuilding performance. The Acting Together project documents how divided communities in conflict regions across the globe draw on the power of performance to express silenced truths, rebuild severed relationships, and work toward justice. Born in 2005 of a partnership between the International Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life at Brandeis University and Theatre Without Borders, the project grew to include the two-volume anthology Acting Together, the feature-length documentary film Acting Together on the World Stage, a website of related materials, and a toolkit, or "Tools for Continuing the Conversation," included with the documentary as a second disc and featuring practical guidelines and templates for further action. Taken together, these resources yield rich case studies, theoretical frameworks, and recommendations to help practitioners, educators, students, and policymakers understand and strengthen the emerging field of peacebuilding performance