Prof. Dr. Ananda Breed is Professor of Theatre at the University of Lincoln and author of Performing the Nation: Genocide, Justice, Reconciliation (Seagull Books, 2014); co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance: Volume One - Mainland Europe, North and Latin America, Southern Africa, and Australia and New Zealand (Routledge, 2020); co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance: Volume Two - Brazil, West Africa, South and South East Asia, United Kingdom and the Arab World (Routledge, 2020); co-editor of Creating Culture in (Post) Socialist Central Asia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020); and co-editor of Performance and Civic Engagement (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017); in addition to several publications that address transitional systems of governance and the arts. She has worked as a consultant for IREX and UNICEF in Indonesia and Kyrgyzstan on issues concerning conflict prevention and conducted applied arts workshops in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Indonesia, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, Palestine, Rwanda and Turkey. Breed was formerly co-director of the Centre for Performing Arts Development (CPAD) at the University of East London and former research fellow at the International Research Centre Interweaving Performance Cultures at Freie University (2013-14). She is currently Principal Investigator (PI) of AHRC GCRF Network Plus project Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP): Informing the National Curriculum and Youth Policy for Peacebuilding in Kyrgyzstan, Rwanda, Indonesia and Nepal (2020-24); PI of GCRF Newton Fund project Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) at Home: online psychosocial support through the arts in Rwanda (2020-22); and Co-Investigator (Co-I) of AHRC GCRF Network Plus project Changing the Story: Building Inclusive Societies with and for Young People in 5 post-conflict countries (2017-2021). She was formerly PI of AHRC Follow On funding project Ubwuzu (2018-19) and Co-I for AHRC project Connective Memories: Intergenerational expressions in contemporary Rwanda (2019-20) and Co-I for AHRC project Examining Interpretations of Civil National Values made by Young People in Post-Conflict Settings in Kenya and Nepal (2019-20).