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Latino's increasing numbers and their uncertain voting behaviors
have enticed Democrats and Republicans to actively court this
demographic group, seeking their partisan identification. Through
in-depth interviews with campaign strategists, a quantitative
analysis of Latino-oriented television advertisements and a survey
of Latino citizens, this project examines these efforts.
Latino's increasing numbers and their uncertain voting behaviors
have enticed Democrats and Republicans to actively court this
demographic group, seeking their partisan identification. Through
in-depth interviews with campaign strategists, a quantitative
analysis of Latino-oriented television advertisements and a survey
of Latino citizens, this project examines these efforts.
How do we measure peace, and whose peace are we measuring? This
insightful, cutting-edge text, global in scope, addresses the
wicked, thorny problem of peacebuilding evaluation by gathering
contemporary research and best practices for assessing
peacebuilding across multiple settings and challenges. Replete with
evaluation design models, reflective thinking strategies,
collaboration principles, data collection and analysis methods
tools, continuous learning practices, and above all, authentic
cases, the contributors parse the inherent challenges of conflict
and peace. Students entering the field, whether as practitioners,
researchers, donors, policymakers, or community organizers, will
benefit from this book’s creative approaches, intellectual rigor,
and practical examples of navigating and evaluating the political,
personal, relational, and institutional challenges of measuring the
effectiveness of peacebuilding efforts.
How do we measure peace, and whose peace are we measuring? This
insightful, cutting-edge text, global in scope, addresses the
wicked, thorny problem of peacebuilding evaluation by gathering
contemporary research and best practices for assessing
peacebuilding across multiple settings and challenges. Replete with
evaluation design models, reflective thinking strategies,
collaboration principles, data collection and analysis methods
tools, continuous learning practices, and above all, authentic
cases, the contributors parse the inherent challenges of conflict
and peace. Students entering the field, whether as practitioners,
researchers, donors, policymakers, or community organizers, will
benefit from this book’s creative approaches, intellectual rigor,
and practical examples of navigating and evaluating the political,
personal, relational, and institutional challenges of measuring the
effectiveness of peacebuilding efforts.
This inaugural volume in the Peter Lang Conflict and Peace series
brings together works that richly depict the tensions between the
promise and reality of applying communication principles and
theories to conflict transformation and peacebuilding around the
world and in the United States. Each chapter provides concrete
examples of the doing of engaged scholarship in this context.
Chapter contributors explain how their on-the-ground work has
contributed to theorizing in communication and beyond as well as to
conflict transformation and peacebuilding practice. Importantly,
they also unearth the challenges in designing and implementing
techniques and practices. As a collection, this edited volume
underscores the communicative nature of conflict transformation and
peacebuilding in particular, and engaged scholarship, in general.
The collection also reveals tensions in doing engaged scholarship
that are applicable to other contexts beyond conflict
transformation and peacebuilding.
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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