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This handbook offers a comprehensive analysis of peacebuilding in
ethnic conflicts, with attention to theory, peacebuilder roles,
making sense of the past and shaping the future, as well as case
studies and approaches. Comprising 28 chapters that present key
insights on peacebuilding in ethnic conflicts, the volume has
implications for teaching and training, as well as for practice and
policy. The handbook is divided into four thematic parts. Part 1
focuses on critical dimensions of ethnic conflicts, including root
causes, gender, external involvements, emancipatory peacebuilding,
hatred as a public health issue, environmental issues, American
nationalism, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Part 2
focuses on peacebuilders' roles, including Indigenous peacemaking,
nonviolent accompaniment, peace leadership in the military,
interreligious peacebuilders, local women, and young people. Part 3
addresses the past and shaping of the future, including a
discussion of public memory, heritage rights and monuments,
refugees, trauma and memory, aggregated trauma in the
African-American community, exhumations after genocide, and a
healing-centered approach to conflict. Part 4 presents case studies
on Sri Lanka's postwar reconciliation process, peacebuilding in
Mindanao, the transformative peace negotiation in Aceh and
Bougainville, external economic aid for peacebuilding in Northern
Ireland, Indigenous and local peacemaking, and a continuum of
peacebuilding focal points. The handbook offers perspectives on the
breadth and significance of peacebuilding work in ethnic conflicts
throughout the world. This volume will be of much interest to
students of peacebuilding, ethnic conflict, security studies, and
international relations.
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.
A transformational approach to conflict argues that conflicts must
be viewed as embedded within broader relational patterns and social
and discursive structures. Central to this book is the idea that
the origins of transformation can be momentary, situational, and
small-scale or large-scale and systemic. The momentary involves
shifts and meaningful changes in communication and related patterns
that are created in communication between people. Momentary
transformative changes can radiate out into more systemic levels,
and systemic transformative changes can radiate inward to more
personal levels. This book engages this transformative framework by
bringing together current scholarship that epitomizes and
highlights the contribution of communication scholarship and
communication-centered approaches to conflict transformation in
personal, family, and working relationships and organizational
contexts. The resulting volume presents an engaging mix of
scholarly chapters, think pieces, and personal experiences from the
field of practice and everyday life. The book embraces a wide
variety of theoretical and methodological approaches, including
narrative, critical, intersectional, rhetorical, and quantitative.
It makes a valuable additive contribution to the ongoing dialogue
across and between disciplines on how to transform conflicts
creatively, sustainably, and ethically.
The twenty- first century has brought with it a shift from the
notion of human security being located in secure national borders
to the need to secure the safety, freedom, and dignity of all.
Despite efforts to equalize women's status in the world evidenced
by changes in many international projects requiring a gender focus,
women and men experience most of the world in very different ways
according to gender. Further, the reality is that humans who do not
all fall neatly into one of these categories - male or female -
often find their lives further challenged. In the 1980s, Peace and
Conflict Studies first began to acknowledge and study the different
experiences males and females have during war and peace. Since
then, there have been books about women and war, women working at
grassroots levels to build peace, women and transitional justice,
women and peace education, and women's views of human security. All
of these works have contributed to the discourse of our changing
world. This book brings together some of those themes and voices
and adds more with the final product being more than the sum of its
parts. We add to the conversation a book that considers
foundational/fundamental issues that span from the interpersonal to
the global. Many of the chapters describe empirical research
completed with author and community, shared here for the first
time. Part One is a collection of case studies, documenting
challenges and responses to peacebuilding by women from various
parts of the world. Part Two focuses on Peace and Conflict Studies
(PACS) as a discipline, examining not only what is, but also what
should be taught. This section critiques today's efforts at
teaching Peace and Conflict Studies and provides suggestions of how
this important work might be shared in more open and equitable
ways. Part Three enters territory found even less in the PACS
literature. In this section our authors confront patriarchy, engage
in a discussion about the contribution queer theory makes to PACS,
and tussle with the notion of inclusivity with considerations of
both gender and disability. It then ends with a discussion about
the contribution feminist methodologies make to PACS.
This foundational Peace and Conflict Studies text is formatted to
fit inside a 14 week college/university term. The chapters are
designed to provide a succinct overview of research, theory, and
practice that can be supplemented with material chosen by the
professor. The book introduces students to the core concepts of the
field, and provides an up to date alternative to the Peace and
Conflict readers. It will move from historical development of the
field to the way forward into the future. Each chapter will reflect
current trends and research and contain up to date examples,
questions for discussion or for potential student research topics,
suggested reading, and engaged teaching activities.
This foundational Peace and Conflict Studies text is formatted to
fit inside a 14 week college/university term. The chapters are
designed to provide a succinct overview of research, theory, and
practice that can be supplemented with material chosen by the
professor. The book introduces students to the core concepts of the
field, and provides an up to date alternative to the Peace and
Conflict readers. It will move from historical development of the
field to the way forward into the future. Each chapter will reflect
current trends and research and contain up to date examples,
questions for discussion or for potential student research topics,
suggested reading, and engaged teaching activities.
A transformational approach to conflict argues that conflicts must
be viewed as embedded within broader relational patterns and social
and discursive structures. Central to this book is the idea that
the origins of transformation can be momentary, situational, and
small-scale or large-scale and systemic. The momentary involves
shifts and meaningful changes in communication and related patterns
that are created in communication between people. Momentary
transformative changes can radiate out into more systemic levels,
and systemic transformative changes can radiate inward to more
personal levels. This book engages this transformative framework by
bringing together current scholarship that epitomizes and
highlights the contribution of communication scholarship and
communication-centered approaches to conflict transformation in
personal, family, and working relationships and organizational
contexts. The resulting volume presents an engaging mix of
scholarly chapters, think pieces, and personal experiences from the
field of practice and everyday life. The book embraces a wide
variety of theoretical and methodological approaches, including
narrative, critical, intersectional, rhetorical, and quantitative.
It makes a valuable additive contribution to the ongoing dialogue
across and between disciplines on how to transform conflicts
creatively, sustainably, and ethically.
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