Forming a Culture of Peace: Reframing Narratives of Intergroup Relations, Equity, and Justice [Hardcover]

This book challenges the discourses, narrative frames, and systems of beliefs that support and promote violence and conflict, it defines new comprehensive approaches to human security as preventative and empowering to individuals, and it provides conceptual frameworks and methodological tools for enhancing the processes of communicating peace.PART I: DEFINING DISCOURSES OF PEACE Reframing Public Discourses for Peace and Justice; M.Karlberg The 'New' Rhetoric: Keeping Time in the Communication of Peacebuilding; R.Hart Toward Popular Discourses of Peace; R.Rubenstein Promoting Culture of Peace through History Education; K.V.Korostelina Becoming a Peacemaker: Personal Discourses of Peace and Violence; M.Gopin PART II: COMMUNICATING PEACE The Discursive Construction of Global Poverty: Social Justice in Patterns of Reporting; M.Milner Civil Identity and Communicative Practice: the Rhetoric of Liberty in the United States; S.Simmons Conflict Prevention, Reconciliation and Mass Media Framing; B.Bahador Why Can't You Sell Peace Like You Sell Soap? Social Marketing: An Approach to Communication for Peace in Aceh; V.Rish The Importance of Communication in Civil-Society Peace Building. An Example Taken from the Field; H.Neumann & M.Emmer

This excellent collection of insightful chapters reveals the multiple ways that values, beliefs and practices

which are supportive of peace, justice, and equality, are socially communicated. The varied, empirically-grounded

analyses demonstrate how many social levels should be, and often are, engaged in forming a culture of peace. - Louis Kriesberg, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Maxwell Professor Emeritus of Social Conflict Studies, Founding Director, Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts, Syracuse University

Karina V. Korostelina has gathered some important authors in the field to focus attention on the ways in which different discourses, narrative frames, alsA