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This chapter illustrates how the two fields of conflict transformation and drama can work together to provide adolescents in schools with useful understanding of how conflicts happen and develop, and strategies for managing conflicts in real life, by practising them in penalty-free dramatic contexts. The chapter starts by demonstrating how drama can provide a holistic and negotiable structural model of conflict transformation and mediation. This moves to a conceptual integration of the fields, analysing in detail the similarities and the divergences. It stresses the importance of leadership in managing empathy and emotional distance in both drama and real-life conflict and the crucial role of mediation in conflicts. The chapter then identifies and explains the theory and practice of the key pedagogies used in DRACON, transformative learning, transformative mediation and peer teaching and how they were integrated into DRACON.
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O’Toole, J. et al. (2019). Bridging the Fields of Drama and Conflict Transformation. In: Researching Conflict, Drama and Learning. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-5916-3_4
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