Dancing Through the Dissonance

Download or read book Dancing Through the Dissonance written by Lesley Pruitt and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the relationship between peacebuilding and dance, including insights dance provides on key debates around peace and conflict. Building on existing work in International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies, and Dance, the authors consider the work of an NGO and its participants deploying dance for peacebuilding through case studies across three contexts-Colombia, the Philippines, and the United States. In doing so, this book explores how dance, as an aesthetic, embodied medium, can embrace emotions, and support relationships across difference. Considering young people as peer leaders, the interaction of local and global hubs for peace, the role of embodied empathy, and the importance of practitioner self-care, this book provides a unique, important discussion as documented through a dance based peacebuilding approach. Through this work, the authors illuminate prospects and challenges in the practice and study of peacebuilding.