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This book analyses the use of communication in resolving conflicts,
with a focus on de-escalation and processes of peacebuilding and
peace formation. From the employment of hate radio in the Rwanda
genocide, to the current conflict between Russia and the Ukraine
following events in the Crimea, communication and the media are
widely recognized as powerful tools in conflicts and war. Although
there has been significant academic attention on the relationship
between the media, conflict and war, academic efforts to understand
this relationship have tended to focus primarily on the links
between communication and conflict, rather than on communication
and peace. In order to make sense of peace it is essential to look
at communication in its many facets, mediated or not. This is true
within many of the diverse strands that make up the field of
communication and peace, but it is also true in the sense that a
holistic and interdisciplinary approach is missing from the
literature. This book addresses this widely acknowledged lacuna by
providing an interdisciplinary perspective on the field, bringing
together relevant, but so far largely isolated, streams of
research. In doing so, it aims to provide a platform for further
reflection of the meaning of, and requirements for, peace in our
contemporary world with a focus on de-escalation, conflict
transformation, reconciliation and processes of peacebuilding - as
opposed to conflict escalation or crisis intervention. This volume
will be of much interest to students of peace and conflict studies,
peacebuilding, media and communication studies, security studies
and IR in general.
Many of the world's deadliest conflicts are largely ignored -
becoming off-the-radar 'stealth conflicts'. How can this be
possible in a world with unprecedented levels of access to
information, and unprecedented levels of attention and resources
being devoted to foreign affairs? Virgil Hawkins reveals and
explains the highly distorted and assimilated responses to foreign
conflicts by major actors in the world. He examines the
agenda-setting processes of policy makers, the media, the public
and academics in relation to foreign conflicts. Using a vast array
of detailed examples, he systematically unravels the internal
dynamics and external influences experienced by these actors, and
in so doing he brings the academic agenda into the loop of the
conflict response agenda-setting process for the first time. With
agenda-setting research tending to focus on the question of why a
response to a particular event or issue occurred, this book
furthers research by focusing equally on why a response did not
occur. The volume is critically important in understanding why
actors do and do not respond to foreign conflicts.
This book analyses the use of communication in resolving conflicts,
with a focus on de-escalation and processes of peacebuilding and
peace formation. From the employment of hate radio in the Rwanda
genocide, to the current conflict between Russia and the Ukraine
following events in the Crimea, communication and the media are
widely recognized as powerful tools in conflicts and war. Although
there has been significant academic attention on the relationship
between the media, conflict and war, academic efforts to understand
this relationship have tended to focus primarily on the links
between communication and conflict, rather than on communication
and peace. In order to make sense of peace it is essential to look
at communication in its many facets, mediated or not. This is true
within many of the diverse strands that make up the field of
communication and peace, but it is also true in the sense that a
holistic and interdisciplinary approach is missing from the
literature. This book addresses this widely acknowledged lacuna by
providing an interdisciplinary perspective on the field, bringing
together relevant, but so far largely isolated, streams of
research. In doing so, it aims to provide a platform for further
reflection of the meaning of, and requirements for, peace in our
contemporary world with a focus on de-escalation, conflict
transformation, reconciliation and processes of peacebuilding - as
opposed to conflict escalation or crisis intervention. This volume
will be of much interest to students of peace and conflict studies,
peacebuilding, media and communication studies, security studies
and IR in general.
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