Educating for Peace through Theatrical Arts

Candice C. Carter is an educational researcher and consultant. Previously, she was an Associate Professor and Director of the Conflict Transformation Program at the University of North Florida, USA.Rodrigo Benza Guerra is a director and researcher of performing arts, and Associate Professor in the Department of Performing Arts at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP).

• 1. Introduction: Peacebuilding Through Performance Art as Education [Candice C. Carter and Rodrigo Benza Guerra], 2. Culture, Performance, and Peace: How Performance Art and Intangible Cultural Heritage Help to Create Peace in Our World [Christoph Wulf], 3. Aesthetic Resonance as Peacebuilding in Applied Theatre with Newly Immigrated Children in Germany [Serafina Morrin], 4. Bridging the Classroom Divide in the US: Dialogical Pedagogy and the Healing Arts [James Alan Astman], 5. From a Place of Not Fully Knowing: Devising Theatre with Young Adults in Austria as a Vulnerable Process of Elicitive Peace Education [Hanne Tjersland], 6. Teaching for Gender Equality As Peace Education through Theatrical Performance in Mexican Schools [Lucía E. Rodríguez Mckeon and Náyade Soledad Monter Arizmendi], 7. Theatre Arts in Peace Education: The Praxis at the Mindanao Peacebuilding Institute in the Philippines [Kyoko Okumoto, Babu Ayindo, and Dessa Quesada Palm], 8. Storytelling in Burundi: Traditional and Theatrical Education to Support Peacebuilding [William M. Timpson, Fulgence Twizerimana, and Godelieve Nisengwe], 9. Desiderata: Dancing Social Cohesion in Cape Town [Gerard M. Samuel and Charlotte Svendler Nielsen], 10. Peacebuilding Through Testimonial Theatre in the United States and Northern Ireland [Jennifer Blackburn Miller], 11. Political Humor and Peace Education [Syed Sikander Mehdi], 12. Conclusion [Candice C. Carter], 13. Appendix, 14. Index