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This book explores the potential of movement as a means of eliciting conflict transformation and unfolding peace at the intrapersonal and relational levels. It examines how peace and dance have been related in different cultures and investigates embodied ways to creatively tap the energies of conflicts, inspiring possibilities of transformation and new dynamics in relationships. Drawing on Wolfgang Dietrich's Many Peaces theory, the book discusses how different expressions of dance have been connected to different interpretations of peace and strategies for transformation. Delving into elicitive approaches to conflict transformation, the book develops an innovative framework for applying movement as an elicitive method, which it vividly presents through the author's own experiences and interviews with participants in workshops. Given its scope, the book will appeal to scholars, practitioners and artists working at the nexus of peace, conflict transformation and the arts.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: Warming Up.- Chapter 2: Unfolding Peace: Many Peaces, Dances and The Search for Balance.- Chapter 3: Conflicts: Upholding Opposites in Creative Tension.- Chapter 4: Dancing Conflicts: Movement as a Method to Elicit Conflict Transformation.- Chapter 5: Conclusion: Invitation to Continue the Dance.
About the author
Paula Ditzel Facci is a Lecturer at the Unit for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Innsbruck, Austria, and at the Instituto Paz e Mente, Brazil. She has been a Visiting Research Fellow at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.
