This volume captures the essence of how we communicate differences in relationships, between and across cultures, in organizations, through education and in moments of local and global conflict and crisis that demonstrates the importance and viability of approaching peace and conflict communication from various fields within communication studies.1. Introduction: Communicating Differences: Towards Breaking the Boundaries for Peace and Conflict Research in Communication; Sudeshna Roy and Ibrahim Seaga Shaw PART I: FROM MACRO TO MICRO INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION AT THE HEART OF CONFLICT NEGOTIATION 2. An Intercultural Peacebuilding Framework: Extending the Conversation through a Focus on Connections; Mary Jane Collier 3. Reporting the Lee Rigby Murder and Anti-Muslim Hostilities in the UK in 2013: The Cultural Clash Communication and Human Wrongs Journalism Nexus; Ibrahim Seaga Shaw 4. Peacebuilding Through Dialogue In Northern Ireland; John S. Caputo 5. Cultural Affirmative Philosophy; Mariam Betlemidze PART II: FROM LOCAL TO GLOBAL: MEDIATED IDENTITIES IN CONFLICTED CULTURES 6. What '' ''s in a Name?: Examining Representation of Indian Ethnicities in Bollywood Movies in the New Millennium; Sudeshna Roy 7. The Mediterranean Clandestine: A Friend or a Foe?; Julia Khrebtan-H?rhager 8. Peace or Conflict Maker: Role of News Media in South Korea '' ''s Multicultural Society; MiSun Lee and Jinbong Choi 9. The Construction of Human Rights in U.S. and Chinese Philosophical Discourse; Yanqin Liu PART III: FROM DECONSTRUCTION TO RECONSTRUCTION: REBOOTING FRAMEWORKS OF EDUCATION ON CULTURE, CONFLICT AND PEACE 10. Narrative, Decolonial Education, and Societal Transformation; Patrick Belanger 11. Pakistani Cultural Characteristics: Updated VSM Scores and Facework Geared Towards Increasing Women '' ''s Access to Education; Rebecca Merkin 12. Construl“µ