Crucial Narratives: Performance Art and Peace Building‪.‬

Abstract This is a U.S.-based study that explores and explains how performance art interventions can complement traditional and transformative interventions in the field of conflict resolution through the creation of an "alternative reality" among audience members, and through the utilization of multiple narratives and different perceptions of those narratives. Quantitative and qualitative research collected and analyzed for this study indicates and suggests how performance art, as a dialogically based intervention, can influence an individual's attitude, perception, or position about issues that are relevant to the field of conflict resolution.