ABSTRACT
Storytelling has been used throughout human history and continues as a form of education as well as a means for restoration after harmful conflict. In multiple sites of learning, the skills of storytelling and performance can help engage participants of all ages to understand many things, develop skills of conflict resolution, and advance peacebuilding, especially in the context of violent conflict and healing from trauma, as this chapter portrays in Burundi, Africa. It describes uses of storytelling in a community-based language-acquisition club and trainings by a public health worker in Burundi, as well as in applied theatre. It includes the authors’ stories of responding to conflict and violence by developing opportunities for peacebuilding education in their communities. Research on these topics, especially in Africa, support the pedagogical recommendations made by the authors who have first-hand experience with peace education through storytelling.
