International Conference on Peace Education

09-11 February 2004
Performance and Workshop
Conflict Transformation through Theatre

in co-operation with Amani People's Theatre, Kenya and The Mothertongue Project, South Africa



pics courtesy: InWent

  How can theatre be used as a means of constructively waging conflicts and in transforming them? What role can theatre as a creative medium play in an emerging, internationally challenging conception of peace education? During the conference Meike Herminghausen and Sruti Bala from sabisa collaborated with Awino Okech from the Kenyan Amani People's Theatre and Sara Matchett from The Mothertongue Project, Cape Town, to create a performance based on a Kenyan myth, which allowed the audience to participate in finding creative solutions and ways of dealing with the crisis of the performance. The methods and approach used were discussed and presented in detail during a workshop o conflict transformation through theatre.

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for details of the conference and speakers' presentations.

The conference was jointly organised by InWent gGmbH and the Institute for Peace Education, Tübingen.


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