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This book brings together leading edge scholarship and emerging approaches to conflict transformation from a communication perspective. It illustrates the centrality of communication in analyzing, understanding, and creating transformation in community, environmental, regional, and global conflicts.
List of contents
Chapter One Disarticulation and conflict transformation: Interactive design, collaborative processes, and generative democracy
Chapter Two Indigenous principles and communication strategies: Extending Lederach to designing research for and as conflict transformation
Chapter Three Transforming conflicts over sustainability through dialogue
Chapter Four Liberia's Pen-Pen riders: A case-study of a locally driven, dialogic approach to transformation, peacebuilding, and social change
Chapter Five Post-genocide dialogue: Negotiating transitional justice and mediating collective trauma
Chapter Six Beyond Dialogue: Conflict transformation through ritual
Chapter Seven A politics of contagion as a liberatory framework for social policies on homelessness
Chapter Eight Pariah's among us? Transforming conflicted constructions of urban street dogs in India
Chapter Nine Rhetorical re-envisioning in conflict transformation: The power of renaming for peace with justice
Chapter Ten The 2014 Scottish independence referendum: Conflict attentive to communication ethics
Chapter Eleven Communicative contact and the transformation of ethnopolitical conflicts
Chapter Twelve Preventing violent extremism through government and community partnerships
Chapter Thirteen Reconciliation via compulsory communal labor: Opportunities and challenges uncovered by participatory ethnography research in post-colonial Rwanda
Chapter Fourteen Students Talk, Listen and Act to Transform Conflict: A Case Study of a Service-Learning Project in Central Minnesota, U.S and Kajiado, Kenya
Chapter Fifteen Transformational pragmatics in the MENA uprisings: Reterritorialization in Morocco
Chapter Sixteen A new set of tools for mediation: Connecting culture, conflict style, and outcome preference
Chapter Seventeen The Democratic Republic of Congo: language as tool of social cohesion or inter-provincial social conflict
Chapter Eighteen Engaging Narrative As Rights-Based Peace Praxis: Framing, Naming, And Witnessing In Overcoming Structural Violence And Marginalization
Chapter Nineteen War, Peace, and Media
Chapter Twenty If peace is a process, what is a war? The transformation of media coverage of a violent conflict
About the author
Peter M. Kellett is associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.
Thomas G. Matyók is associate professor and head of the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.
Summary
This book brings together leading edge scholarship and emerging approaches to conflict transformation from a communication perspective. It illustrates the centrality of communication in analyzing, understanding, and creating transformation in community, environmental, regional, and global conflicts.
