Thursday, 11 February 2010

Using Theatre to Overcome Oppression

Filed under: Art of Peacework, Human Rights — story spotted by Catherine Morris @ 11:41 UTC

Many of the peace strategies used in current conflict zones focus on reducing the direct violence or the structural violence within the government systems while neglecting to truly address the cultural violence that lingers within the society…

Augusto Boal’s Theater of the Oppressed is an approach to social change that allows for protected dialogue into an issue behind a veil of theatrics…

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