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This chapter offers an empirical study on Sarwanam, a theatre group from Nepal. An overview of the Nepalese conflict establishes that despite the significant impact of the conflict upon ordinary citizens and the role they played in the People’s Movements, the expected outcomes of the negotiated peace that filtered through to the lifeworlds of distant communities remained marginal. The author explores how Sarwanam uses theatre to make excluded citizens’ perspectives a part of the public discourse on theatre, thereby highlighting a crucial element that has been neglected within the mainstream political process for peace.
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Premaratna, N. (2018). Sarwanam: Speaking for the People. In: Theatre for Peacebuilding. Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75720-9_6
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