This book documents the experiences of victims of violent conflicts, who used dance, music, and drama to negotiate their wellbeing, and build resilience and hope. The culturally familiar context used by the victims is a bottom-up approach that generates positive energies enabling them to attain emotional growth and psychological integration, including social skills with which they imagine and work towards a better future. "Shadrach grasps the physical and psychological dimensions of theatrical events. He describes as an observer, analyses as a scientist, and understands the need for reflection before coming to a conclusion." Wolfgang Schneider "... It is a stimulant for further research in cultural performances and their therapeutic properties." S. E. Ododo

Shadrach Teryila UKUMA is a lecturer with the Benue State University, Makurdi – Nigeria, in the Department of Theatre Arts. He studied in Maiduguri (Nigeria) and Hildesheim (Germany) for a PhD. His research interests include cultural performance, ethnomusicology, cultural sustainability, transformative aesthetics, and creative peacebuilding.