Forming a Culture of Peace

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.

Autorentext
Karina V. Korostelina is Director of the Program on History, Memory and Conflict at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University, USA.

Inhalt
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