1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Conflict and Peace Communication
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.
Foreword
Melanie Greenberg
Introduction
Stacey L. Connaughton and Stefanie Pukallus
Part I: Meta-theoretical, Theoretical, and Methodical 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
Biography
Stacey L. Connaughton is Professor in The Brian Lamb School of Communication and the Director of the Purdue Policy Research Institute at Purdue University, USA.
Stefanie Pukallus is Professor of Public Communication and Civil Development at the School of Journalism, Media and Communication at the University of Sheffield, UK. She is also the Founding Chair of the Hub for the Study of Hybrid Communication in Peacebuilding.
