The Routledge Handbook of Conflict and Peace Communication

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 Timuche 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

Stacey L. Connaughton 

4. Networks approaches to conflict and peace communication

Munira Mustaffa and Ayse D. Lokmanoglu 

5. Participatory (action) and community-based research

Juan Mario Díaz-Arévalo 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

Jeffrey W. 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

Jeremiah J. Castle and Kyla Stepp 

13. Bringing conflict back in: Computational propaganda and totalitarian political communication in Brazil

André 

K. Rodarte and Samuel C. 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 García 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

Tetiana 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 and 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.