"This toolkit is designed to introduce young people to an innovative theater methodology that creatively examines and transforms conflict. After working through the exercises in this manual, youth will be equipped to lead community dialogue as agents of positive change. The facilitation guide and th
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eater curriculum that follow were created for the USAID-funded Youth Theater for Peace (YTP) project. Since its launch in 2010, YTP has promoted sustainable conflict prevention at the community level through theater. YTP trained 284 youth and adults in conflict mitigation through the use of interactive theater in four conflict-affected regions of Kyrgyzstan. The result was the creation of 33 schoolbased drama clubs, which reached more than 50,000 audience members. Youth in the YTP program engage with each other and their communities through theater activities based on Drama for Conflict Transformation (DCT), a participatory theater methodology in which youth develop short plays based on conflict issues and present them to their communities in interactive performances." (Introduction)
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"This brochure addresses the role of African youth in peace work, the hurdles and sources of potential. The CPS networks in Africa place particular emphasis on working with young people. You may already have read articles about peace work by and with young people in other publications in the “Buil
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ding Peace” series. What has impressed us most in the contributions to this publication are the courageous and creative initiatives and the central role played by artistic expression and culture, or, to be more precise, the multiplicity of cultures. The strengths and challenges of the multi-cultural aspect of the Civil Peace Service’s work are richly illustrated in the wide range of articles." (https://www.ziviler-friedensdienst.org)
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"Providing an international overview of the latest work and thinking in Drama and Education, and featuring interviews with a worldwide variety of leading practitioners and theorists, this book explores how Educational Theatre, Applied Theatre and Drama Therapy facilitate change within schools, commu
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nity centres, prisons, and theatres." (Publisher description)
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