Short description:

This handbook provides a comprehensive review of research in conflict and peace communication and offers readers a range of insights into foundational, ongoing, and emerging discussions in this field.

Long description:

This handbook provides a comprehensive review of research in conflict and peace communication and offers readers a range of insights into foundational, ongoing, and emerging discussions in this field.

The volume brings together peace studies, conflict studies, and communication studies to acknowledge the power of communication?both cooperative, solidarizing, and integrative as well as destructive and divisive?in constituting social relations. It features a multiplicity of authors, including academics and practitioners from all corners of the globe and from across the communicative spectrum. The handbook is divided into four parts: (1) Meta-theoretical, theoretical, and methodological approaches in conflict and peace communication research; (2) Conflict communication; (3) Peace communication; and (4) Cross-cutting and emergent themes.

This handbook is essential reading for scholars, research-driven practitioners, graduate-level students, and upper-level undergraduate students in conflict and peace communication within disciplines such as communication studies, political science, international relations, security studies, and human rights.

Table of Contents:

Foreword Melanie Greenberg  Introduction Stacey L. Connaughton and Stefanie Pukallus  Part I: Meta-theoretical, Theoretical, and Methodological Approaches in Conflict and Peace Communication  1. Post-positivist approaches to conflict and peace communication research Kai Kuang, Prudence Mbah, and Qiupeng Wang  2. Interpretivist/social constructionist approaches to conflict and peace communication research Jennifer K. Ptacek  3. Critical perspectives on conflict and peace communication research Stacey L. Connaughton  4. Networks approaches to conflict and peace communication Munira Mustaffa and Ayse Lokmanoglu  5. Participatory (action) & community-based research Juan Mario Diaz-Arevalo and Adriel Ruíz-Galván  6. Genocide warning systems: Building capacity for preventing mass atrocities Nat B. Walker  7. Monitoring journalism safety Manizja Aziz and Leon Willems  8. Connecting evidence to practice: The development of the Better Evidence Project Jeff Helsing and Ziad Al Achkar  9. Predictors of armed intergroup-conflicts: An overview of risk factors Torsten Reimer, Christopher R. Roland, Jennifer K. Ptacek, Arunima Krishna, and Stacey L. Connaughton Part II: Conflict Communication  10. The three communicative dimensions of hate speech Stefanie Pukallus  11. The rise of propaganda and disinformation since the First World War Edward Corse  12. Culture wars and hyperpartisan news Jeremy Castle and Kyla Stepp  13. Bringing conflict back in: Computational propaganda and totalitarian political communication in Brazil Andrew Rodarte and Samuel Woolley  14. Civil actors under attack: Digital authoritarianism and the weaponization of social media Marc Owen Jones  15. Social media as a conflict driver and a tool of participatory conflict communication Alexandra Pavliuc  16. Extremism, the extreme right and conspiracy myths on social media Julia Ebner and Jakob Guhl  17. Aggressive communication online: From familiar anti-women sentiments to misogyny influencers and male supremacism in the manosphere Allysa Czerwinsky  18. From conflict to collaboration: solidarity and compromise in trans and women?s movements Kat Gupta and Ruth Pearce  19. Dehumanising and intimidating imagery in cartoons and caricatures James Whitworth  20. The communication of values through hostile architecture Robert Rosenberger  21. The clash of two sacred values: Freedom of expression versus religious respect Javier Garcia Oliva and Helen Hall  Part III: Peace Communication  22. The relevance of communicative peacebuilding: civil norm building and discursive civility Stefanie Pukallus  23. The transformative capacity of communication for social change and peacebuilding Michael Papa and Andrew Papa  24. Peace through the media? A historical outline of the UN?s peace-related media policies and activities Roja Zaitoonie  25. Digital media and information literacy Dareen Al-Khoury  26. The civil global news-scape Jackie Harrison  27. Exemplifying peaceful cooperation through news journalism Tetyana Gordiienko  28. Envisioning environmental journalism as a mediating tool in cultural conflict Meli M. Ncube and Bruce Mutsvairo  29. Peace education for deradicalization Dody Wibowo and Zahid Shahab Ahmed  30. Building citizens? values: Peace through sports Wyclife Ong?eta Mose  31. Youth-led media in refugee camps: From marginalisation to inclusion through young people?s productions Valentina Baú  32. Audio-visual media: Documentary filmmaking Jaremey R. McMullin and Evelyn Pauls  33. The value of TV & radio soap opera in peacebuilding Francis Rolt  34. Poetry and folktales in peacebuilding Jesse Matas  35. Peacebuilding in conflict and post-conflict narratives Heike Härting  36. Peace photography, visual peacebuilding and participatory peace photography Rasmus Bellmer, Tiffany Fairey, and Frank Möller  37. Graffiti and street art in peacebuilding Marie Migeon and Birte Vogel  38. The physical and fictional memorialisation of history: Sheffield?s Women of Steel Michelle Rawlins  39. Embodied peacemaking: The role of dance in communicative strategies for conflict mediation and resolution Beatrice Jarvis  40. Music in/for peace April Morris  Part IV: Cross-Cutting and Emergent Themes  41. Freedom to flourish: A systematic review of the literature at the intersection of resilience, communication, and peacebuilding Bedadyuti Jha & Ryan Funkhouser  42. Communicating for well-being: Overlapping principles in peace and health communication Yara M. Asi  43. Resilience nexus: Climate change, food security, conflict, and peace communication Sisira Madurapperuma, Dilanthi Amaratunga, and Richard Haigh  44. Building a just world through Peace Linguistics: Decolonizing and de-gendering communication Kaukab Saba