The Race Project: Using intra-personal conflict to explore systemic change

Dr. Jull was awarded Research and Professional Development funds for a research study on individual conflict behavior through the investigation of race-based systemic injustice.

This project explores individual conflict behavior (and the possibility of leveraging change) by addressing intra-personal dimensions of systemic injustice through arts-based methods of drama. Using the Insight approach to conflict, this action research will investigate a theatre company’s preliminary work on “The Race Project”. Three racially-diverse actors will investigate race-based systemic injustice by exploring their inner conflicts about race in the context of the social patterns of interaction and structures in which race is enacted. This project will produce three short videos oriented to classroom teaching for graduate students to learn micro-skills of Insight conversations to address race-based systemic injustice.