While grassroots theatre brings together perpetrators and survivors of the Rwandan genocide, government-driven campaigns can manipulate theatre for reconciliation to serve its own nationalist agenda. The Mutabaruka company use their performances in Burundi to resurrect/construct the identity of a precolonial Rwanda; the Mashirika theatre focus on reconciling the Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa.

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Ananda Breed Maternal EnvironmentsThis article explores the creation of 'maternal environments' in my work alongside my infants in Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia as a practice conducive to socially engaged performance towards peacemaking. Sara Ruddick defines peacemaking as 'a way of living in which it is possible to learn and to practice nonviolent resistance and strategies of reconciliation. This description of peacemaking is a description of mothering' (Ruddick 1990: 244). I use the term maternal environments to conceptualise the kind of human relationships and social systems that are forged through mothering as a 'socially constructed set of activities and relationships involved in nurturing and caring for people' (Forcey, 1994: 357). My own experiences of mothering while working as a lead consultant and applied performance facilitator with my infants and partner, James Forrester, for the Youth Theatre for Peace (YTP) project in Kyrgyzstan for the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) in addition to training workshops for the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF) and Foundation Tolerance International (FTI) between 2010 and 2016 are used as case studies to explore maternal environments. This article will process these deeply personal accounts of working alongside my infants to advocate for positive role-balance, institutional structural support, health-promoting lifestyles and family-friendly policies and programmes.My health and wellbeing is based on balancing my multiple-roles of being an academic, researcher, practitioner, partner and mother alongside other roles.The opportunity to work alongside my two infants at various points between 2010 and 2014 as the lead facilitator and consultant of the YTP project in Kyrgyzstan increased my sense of health and wellbeing, as I was able to actively explore and question prevalent assumptions about motherhood (both my own and those of others) while balancing between the previously noted multiple-roles. Michele Vancour notes that 'little research has been conducted on the health behavior

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