1. James Thompson is Professor of Applied and Social Theatre at the University of Manchester. He is currently the director of In Place of War—a research and practice-based project exploring performance in war zones. He is author of a number of books including most recently Performance Affects (Palgrave, 2009) and with colleagues Performance in Place of War (Seagull, 2009). He has run performance projects with refugee communities in the UK as well as working in eastern DR Congo, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka.