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Local Solutions Equal Lasting Change

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As aid budgets shrink, donors want to see more than just the immediate impact of their dollars – they want to know an investment will be sustainable, continuing to affect people’s lives for years to come. To achieve sustainability, a project has to introduce tools that truly serve local community needs. That’s what I love the most about our Youth Theater for Peace (YTP) programs—they present a flexible methodology, Drama for Conflict Transformation (DCT), which beneficiaries can use to address a range of conflict issues they feel are relevant locally.

As aid budgets shrink, donors want to see more than just the immediate impact of their dollars – they want to know an investment will be sustainable, continuing to affect people’s lives for years to come.

Acting Together, Performing Peace

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Art can be a transformative force for healing – and for turning would-be soldiers into ambassadors for peace.

A few weeks ago I traveled to a conference on theater and conflict in connection with my work on IREX’s youth theater programs. Put on by the all-volunteer organization Theatre Without Borders, Acting Together on the World Stage drew a vibrant international crowd of performers, directors, playwrights, teachers and others who believe in the power of theater to change individuals, communities, and the world.

Changing the Dynamics of Adult-Youth Interaction

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Firdavs thinks I can’t see his mouth moving. I’ve asked him and the other teachers not to tell the youth at our theater camp in Tajikistan what to say, and to let the campers create scenes and dialogue on their own.

Firdavs thinks I can’t see his mouth moving. I’ve asked him and the other teachers not to tell the youth at our theater camp in Tajikistan what to say, and to let the campers create scenes and dialogue on their own. The group is having fun, rehearsing their skit to make the characters’ movements as big as possible. But Firdavs keeps whispering under his hand, feeding them lines. What would these young people be saying if he wasn’t there putting words in their mouths?

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