"This toolkit is designed to introduce young people to an innovative theater methodology that creatively examines and transforms conflict. After working through the exercises in this manual, youth will be equipped to lead community dialogue as agents of positive change. The facilitation guide and theater curriculum that follow were created for the USAID-funded Youth Theater for Peace (YTP) project. Since its launch in 2010, YTP has promoted sustainable conflict prevention at the community level through theater. YTP trained 284 youth and adults in conflict mitigation through the use of interactive theater in four conflict-affected regions of Kyrgyzstan. The result was the creation of 33 schoolbased drama clubs, which reached more than 50,000 audience members. Youth in the YTP program engage with each other and their communities through theater activities based on Drama for Conflict Transformation (DCT), a participatory theater methodology in which youth develop short plays based on conflict issues and present them to their communities in interactive performances." (Introduction)