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.

Communication and Conflict Transformation through Local, Regional, and Global Engagement

Kellett Peter M. Matyók, Thomas G.

Innbundet / 2016 / Engelsk

Kellett Peter M. Matyók, Thomas G.

Innbundet / 2016 / Engelsk

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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,

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.

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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.

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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

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