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.
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