Acting Together Anthology
Acting Together Documentary
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Cynthia Cohen
Dr. Cynthia Cohen is director of the program in Peacebuilding and the Arts at Brandeis University's International Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life. She is an internationally recognized educator, peacebuilding practitioner and researcher who focuses on the contributions of the arts to conflict transformation. Currently, Dr. Cohen is the principal investigator for the "Acting Together" project, a six year inquiry with theatre artists and leaders of ritual working in conflict regions around the world, undertaken in collaboration with Theatre Without Borders. The project is producing a documentary and toolkit, and a two-volume anthology, to be published by New Village Press in 2011.
Cohen also serves as a co-convenor of the Arts and Peace Commission of the International Peace Research Association. Previously, she directed a fellowship program entitled "Recasting Reconciliation through Culture and the Arts," supporting visual artists, filmmakers, theatre artists and musicians working in Burundi, South Africa, Cambodia, New Zealand and Sri Lanka to document and reflect on the ethical dimensions of their work. She is the author of Working With Integrity: A Guidebook for Peacebuilders Asking Ethical Questions, and many other chapters, articles and papers that focus on the aesthetic and ethical dimensions of conflict transformation.
Prior to her tenure at Brandeis, Cohen founded and directed a community-based oral history center in the Boston area, and worked on issues of violence against women. She holds degrees from the University of New Hampshire, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Wesleyan University.
Listen to an interview with Cindy Cohen about the "Acting Together on the World Stage" Conference.