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Introduction: Warming Up

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The introductory chapter lays the research interest and methodological foundations of the book. It outlines the two main motivations of this research: to investigate how peace and dance have been related and what elements contribute to or limit the experience of peace, and to explore movement as method to elicit conflict transformation. I argue that peace theory and practice can be enriched by understanding peace and conflict as embodied, relational, and in movement, and by developing corresponding methods for transformation. I present popular education, multiple ways of knowing, and embodied writing as methods that inform the investigation. This chapter presents author´s perspective, research question, methods and structure, and state of the art.

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    Pirouette and grand battement are ballet steps.

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Ditzel Facci, P. (2020). Introduction: Warming Up. In: Dancing Conflicts, Unfolding Peaces. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48838-3_1

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