This book offers a comprehensive and critical guide to research and practice in the field of
arts education and conflict management. The DRACON project explores the relationship between
drama and conflict transformation. This international interdisciplinary and comparative action
research project begun in 1996 is aimed at improving conflict management and transformation
among adolescent school students using the medium of educational drama.The book reports on the
underpinning principles and on action research practice in Malaysia Sweden and Australia. The
strategies and techniques which were revolutionary when first introduced are now tried and
tested. The book chronicles the history successes opportunities and challenges of the
original 10-year project and brings the story up to date by highlighting some of its many
legacies and resulting influences around the world. This book will benefit researchers
academics and graduate students in Education the Social Sciences Dispute Resolution and the
Performing Arts.
