<p><b>Courageous artists working in conflict regions describe exemplary peacebuilding performances and groundbreaking theory on performance for transformation of violence.</b><br/><i><br/>Acting Together: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict </i>is a two-volume work describing peacebuilding performances in regions beset by violence and internal conflicts. <i>Volume I: Resistance and Reconciliation in Regions of Violence</i>, emphasizes the role theatre and ritual play both in the midst and in the aftermath of direct violence, while <i>Volume II: Building Just and Inclusive Communities</i>, focuses on the transformative power of performance in regions fractured by "subtler" forms of structural violence and social exclusion.<br/><i>Volume I: Resistance and Reconciliation in Regions of Violence</i> focuses on the role theatre and ritual play both in the midst and in the aftermath of violence. The performances highlighted in this volume nourish and restore capacities