This book explores the relationship between peacebuilding and dance, including insights dance provides on key debates around peace and conflict.It investigates the practice of a dance-focused peacebuilding programme and tells the important story of young people who engage in dance for peacebuilding in Colombia, the Philippines, and the United States. In doing so, the book analyses the ways in which this programme fits into the broader global context. Incorporating participant voices, critical political analysis, and reflections on dance practice, this book reveals important implications and nuances regarding arts-based peace initiatives that can also contribute to reflections on peacebuilding more broadly. As such, this book contributes to theory and practice while building critical understanding of the politics of integrating dance into peacebuilding. By exploring the politics of dancing peace, including benefits and challenges and local and global connections, this book highlights and analyses key issues in arts-based peacebuilding approaches. As the global community continues to seek pathways to peace that are inclusive of people across differences-such as race, religion, gender, culture, age, and locality - and that improve upon, supplement, or replace existing dominant approaches, this book provides a valuable in-depth analysis and recommendations for practice. This book will be of interest to scholars, students, and practitioners working on peacebuilding and conflict resolution, as well as those interested in socially engaged application of the arts more generally.
Dancing Through the Dissonance : Creative Movement and Peacebuilding