Dramatic Problem Solving: Transforming Community Conflict through Performance in Costa Rica

Author(s)

Steven T. Hawkins, EtonHouse International School
Alexia Georgakopoulos, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow

Publication Title

Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences

Publication Date

5-2010

Abstract

The article discusses a study in La Carpio, San Jose, Costa Rica which examines how Dramatic Problem Solving (DPS), an interactive theatre based facilitation, was implemented structural conflict transformation at a community in interpersonal and intrapersonal level. It notes that the study incorporated an action research on a theatre based facilitation model and merged the fields of conflict resolution with performance studies. It reveals that a facilitated problem solving model is the way performance can make physical and real what is often unspoken or hidden.

Volume

2

Issue

1

First Page

112

Last Page

135

Comments

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NSUWorks Citation

Hawkins, S. T., & Georgakopoulos, A. (2010). Dramatic Problem Solving: Transforming Community Conflict through Performance in Costa Rica. Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences, 2 (1), 112-135. Retrieved from https://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_facarticles/307