Central to a transformational approach to conflict is the idea that conflicts must be viewed as embedded within broader relational patterns, and social and discursive structures and must be addressed as such. This implies the need for systemic change at generative levels, in order to create genuine transformation at the level of particular conflicts. Central, also, to this book is the idea that the origins of transformation can be momentary, or situational, small-scale or micro-level, as well as bigger and more systemic or macro-level. Micro-level changes involve shifts and meaningful changes in communication and related patterns that are created in communication between people. Such transformative changes can radiate out into more systemic levels, and systemic transformative changes can radiate inwards to more micro- levels. This book engages this transformative framework. Within this framework, this book pulls together current work that epitomizes, and highlights, the contribution of communication scholarship, and communication centered approaches to conflict transformation, in local/community, regional, environmental and global conflicts in various parts of the world. The resulting volume presents an engaging mix of scholarly chapters, think pieces, and experiences from the field of practice. The book embraces a wide variety of theoretical and methodological approaches, as well as transformative techniques and processes, including: narrative, dialogic, critical, cultural, linguistic, conversation analytic, discourse analytic, and rhetorical. This book makes a valuable contribution to the ongoing dialogue across and between disciplines and people on how to transform conflicts creatively, sustainably, and ethically."
Show moreCentral to a transformational approach to conflict is the idea that conflicts must be viewed as embedded within broader relational patterns, and social and discursive structures and must be addressed as such. This implies the need for systemic change at generative levels, in order to create genuine transformation at the level of particular conflicts. Central, also, to this book is the idea that the origins of transformation can be momentary, or situational, small-scale or micro-level, as well as bigger and more systemic or macro-level. Micro-level changes involve shifts and meaningful changes in communication and related patterns that are created in communication between people. Such transformative changes can radiate out into more systemic levels, and systemic transformative changes can radiate inwards to more micro- levels. This book engages this transformative framework. Within this framework, this book pulls together current work that epitomizes, and highlights, the contribution of communication scholarship, and communication centered approaches to conflict transformation, in local/community, regional, environmental and global conflicts in various parts of the world. The resulting volume presents an engaging mix of scholarly chapters, think pieces, and experiences from the field of practice. The book embraces a wide variety of theoretical and methodological approaches, as well as transformative techniques and processes, including: narrative, dialogic, critical, cultural, linguistic, conversation analytic, discourse analytic, and rhetorical. This book makes a valuable contribution to the ongoing dialogue across and between disciplines and people on how to transform conflicts creatively, sustainably, and ethically."
Show moreChapter 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
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.
An expansive volume that captures the elusive complexity of
communication in multi-party, ethno-political conflicts. A
penetrating read that bridges the theory and practice of large
scale dispute intervention.
*Joseph P. Folger, Temple University and The Institute for the
Study of Conflict Transformation*
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