摘要：With the world-wide resurgence of racism, sexism and xenophobia, harmonious coexistence is one of the most urgent and challenging issues we need to address today. How can people of diverse social and cultural backgrounds, political ideologies and religious faiths live together with mutual respect and empathy? Disciplines such as peace studies, conflict studies and anthropology have contributed significantly to understanding of the nature of human conflict and peacebuilding. However, the potentials of performing arts to help attain an amicable world have been relatively unexplored in previous studies. Here at the Minpaku, a three-year special research project Performing Arts and Conviviality was launched in April, 2018, to explore these potentials.
