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This book brings out the “invisible” lived experiences in peace work. We mostly learn about conflicts via the media, but we rarely get to know what happens when the cameras go off. It is the peace scholars, practitioners, and the locals at the sites who experience what is happening first-hand. To remedy this, this book features autobiographical storytelling to foreground nuanced personal experiences within peacebuilding scholarship and activism. The stories offer an opportunity for scholars and peace practitioners to highlight experiences that engage in purpose and provide directions to sustain undertaking peace work long-term. Contributors include scholars and peace practitioners who have experienced war and reconciliation first-hand, as well as those who visit such post-conflict settings in efforts to contribute different ways of understanding peace scholarship and practice.
Emi Kanemoto (Ph.D.), Assistant Professor at Bryant University, researches intercultural communication, peacebuilding, and social change.
Sasha Allgayer (Ph.D.), Assistant Professor at the College of Wooster, researches global media, international studies and activism.
Eddah Mutua (Ph.D.), Professor at St. Cloud State University, researches African communication, post-conflict peace initiatives, and civic engagement.
List of contents
Introduction to Invisible Peace Work.- Threads of Peace: A Journey of Hope and Struggle.- The Phoenix Within: Narratives of Struggle, Resilience, and Hope.- Inheriting Wartime Narratives: An Autoethnography of the.- Process of Writing to Uncover Intergenerational Trauma.- Stories from the Fault Line: Writing for Peace in Times of Conflict and Contradiction.- Echoes of Suffering in a World of Victims.- Surviving the Crossfire: A Humanitarian Worker’s Experiences in Kerio Valley, Kenya.- Positionality in Conflict Spaces and Contexts: Experiences from East Africa.- My Offering: A Journey of Reconciliation.- Peace, Piece by Piece: The Moral Imagination of Frontline .- The Morally Bankrupt Imagination: After Chicago 2024.- In Search of Reconciliation: A Collaborative Attempt at .- Epilogue: Pillars of Invisible Peace.
About the author
Emi Kanemoto (Ph.D.), Assistant Professor at Bryant University, researches intercultural communication, peacebuilding, and social change.
Sasha Allgayer (Ph.D.), Assistant Professor at the College of Wooster, researches global media, international studies and activism.
Eddah Mutua (Ph.D.), Professor at St. Cloud State University, researches African communication, post-conflict peace initiatives, and civic engagement.
Summary
This book brings out the “invisible” lived experiences in peace work. We mostly learn about conflicts via the media, but we rarely get to know what happens when the cameras go off. It is the peace scholars, practitioners, and the locals at the sites who experience what is happening first-hand. To remedy this, this book features autobiographical storytelling to foreground nuanced personal experiences within peacebuilding scholarship and activism. The stories offer an opportunity for scholars and peace practitioners to highlight experiences that engage in purpose and provide directions to sustain undertaking peace work long-term. Contributors include scholars and peace practitioners who have experienced war and reconciliation first-hand, as well as those who visit such post-conflict settings in efforts to contribute different ways of understanding peace scholarship and practice.
