The Handbook of Conflict and Peace Communication

by Roy, Sudeshna

• ISBN13: 9781119246350
• ISBN10: 1119246350
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2023-09-20
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

An incisive collection of essays highlighting conflict and peace issues in the Global South, with coverage of theory, method, mediated, case-oriented, and innovative approaches

In Handbook of Conflict and Peace Communication, renowned communication and media scholar Dr. Sudeshna Roy delivers an authoritative exploration of a variety of critical conflicts in the world and a spectrum of approaches to peace communication. This book offers an in-depth view of how intricate and intractable conflicts can be and how the communicative aspects of conflict are equally challenging. The author reviews and guides readers through classic and contemporary analysis in the field, providing a truly interdisciplinary work.

Handbook of Conflict and Peace Communication is divided into five navigable sections—Theory Development, Method Development, Traditional/Digital Media and Peace and Conflict, Case Studies, and Innovative Approaches – that help illuminate workable and innovative peace communication strategies relevant to today’s conflicts.

Readers will also find:

• Informative contributions from a collection of outstanding scholars, practitioners, and activists
• Comprehensive explorations of past conflict communication theory in the context of contemporary theory
• Practical tools to navigate complex local and global conflicts
• In-depth examinations of strategies of peace communication from the margins that acknowledge and elevate solutions for and from the most vulnerable

Perfect for undergraduate and graduate students, scholars, and practitioners of peace and conflict studies, media studies, intercultural communication, human rights, and social justice, Handbook of Conflict and Peace Communication will also earn a place in the libraries of interdisciplinary studies involving philosophy, anthropology, political science, history, geography, economics, psychology, and others.

Author Biography

Sudeshna Roy, PhD, is Professor in the Communication Studies Program at Stephen F. Austin State University. Her research is focused on media representation of minorities, the politics of ethnic and racial identities, the cultural politics of immigrants, migrants, and diaspora populations, and peace and conflict communication in the global South.

Table of Contents

Introduction

                Sudeshna Roy

 

Part 1: Theory Development

1. Communicative Contact and Divided Groups

                Donald Ellis

2. Conflict, Global Inequalities, and Structural Oppressions: A Culture-Centered Approach

                Mohan Dutta

3. The Crossroads of Retribution and Restoration: A Story of Justice

                Ian M. Bortan and Gregory D. Paul

4. Social Responsibility, Journalistic Values, and Ethics of Conflict Coverage: A Critical Analysis of the Coverage of the Mumbai Attacks in Indian and Pakistani Elite Press

                Azmat Rasul

5. Authentic Peace and Innovative Justice: Discourses of Accountability and Legitimacy in NGO

                Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice Partnerships

                Courtney E. Cole

 

Part 2: Method Development

6. Applicability of Narrative for Peace and Conflict Communication

                Natasha Azarian-Ceccato

7. The Weaponization of Reporting: Using Nightmares to Sell War and Conflict

                Christian Vukasovich and Tamara Dejanovic-Vukasovich

8. Personal Narratives in the Service of Peacebuilding

                Julia Chaitin

9. Discourse Analysis Applied to Communication about Violent Confict

                John Oddo

10. Strategic Listening in the Middle East as a Guide on the Pathway to Collaboration and Peace

                Annie Rappeport and Andrew Wolvin

11. A Roma Heritage Pilgrimage: Peacebuilding and Reaffirmation of Identity through Visual

                Storytelling in a Hungarian Roma Village

                Maria Subert

 

Part 3: Traditional/Digital Media and Peace and Conflict

12. (Mis)representing Terrorism in Global Media

                Daya K. Thussu

13. Importance of Influence of Post-Conflict Societies in Conceptualizing Conflict and Peace

                Kasun Ubaysiri

14. Peace Journalism in the New Millennium: New Challenges with the Changing Face of Conflict

                Jake Lynch

15. Internet User-Generated Content as “Citizen Peace Journalism”? Lessons from the Initial

                Empirical Data

                Marta N. Lukacovic and Andrew Teye

16. Fighting ISIS: How Al Jazeera Arabic Framed the Fight against ISIS in Raqqa and Mosel

                Hala Guta

17 Conflict Reporting in #280Characters: How Indian and Pakistani News Organizations Framed a

                2019 Border Conflict on Twitter

                Dhiman Chattopadhyay and Awais Saleem

 

Part 4: Case Studies

18. Victimization versus Protagonism: An Analysis of the Process of Asylum Seekers’ Interview in

                Institutions of Brazilian Civil Society

                Sofia C. Zanforlin

19. Are Nigerians in Cameroon Perceived as a Threat? An Analysis of Cameroonian-Nigerian

                Inter-Group Conflict

                Elvis Nshom, Immaculate Kelighai, and Shomaila Sadaf

20. When Campaigning Goes Wrong: Female Genital Mutilation in Human Rights and Peace and Conflict Communication

                Lisen Dellenborg and Maria F. Malmström

21. Applying Image Restoration Theory to Understand the Provisional Irish Republican Army’s (PIRA)

                Image Repair Strategies

                Dylan Silverglate and Jonathan Matusitz

22. Intercultural Empathy between Palestinians and Israelis: A Qualitative Analysis

                Kelsea Jackson and Stephen Croucher

23. Rethinking Pukhtoonwali as a Culture of Peace: The Role of Jirga in Peacebuilding in the Tribal

                Areas of Pakistan

                Nizar Ahmad, Syed Rashid Ali, and Sana Ullah

24. Conflict Management, Ambivalent Sexism, and Latin Gender Roles

                Nathalie Desrayaud, Gabriela R. Martin, and Fernando Olano Vazquez

 

Part 5: Innovative Approaches to Peace and Conflict

25. The Importance of Identifying Islamophobia in Societies to Help Sustain Global Peace Communication

                Muhammad J. Yusha’u

26. Everybody Loves an Innocent Victim: Communicating Terror and Managing Conflict through the

                Victims’ Perspective

                Vipul Mudgal

27. Role of Narratives in Reducing Bias toward Muslim Immigrants: A Step toward Peace and

                Tolerance

                Xiaodi Yan, Mary Bresnahan, Yi Zhu, and Syed Ali Hussain

28. "A Way of Knowing:" Violence, Precarity, and the Critical Potential of Poetry

                Timothy A. Lavis