Communication and Conflict Transformation through Local, Regional, and Global Engagement

Peter M. Kellett is associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.Thomas G. Matyók is associate professor and head of the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

• Chapter One Disarticulation and conflict transformation: Interactive design, collaborative processes, and generative democracy Chapter Two Indigenous principles and communication strategies: Extending Lederach to designing research for and as conflict transformationChapter Three Transforming conflicts over sustainability through dialogue Chapter Four Liberia’s Pen-Pen riders: A case-study of a locally driven, dialogic approach to transformation, peacebuilding, and social change Chapter Five Post-genocide dialogue: Negotiating transitional justice and mediating collective traumaChapter Six Beyond Dialogue: Conflict transformation through ritualChapter Seven A politics of contagion as a liberatory framework for social policies on homelessnessChapter Eight Pariah’s among us? Transforming conflicted constructions of urban street dogs in IndiaChapter Nine Rhetorical re-envisioning in conflict transformation: The power of renaming for peace with justiceChapter Ten The 2014 Scottish independence referendum: Conflict attentive to communication ethicsChapter Eleven Communicative contact and the transformation of ethnopolitical conflicts Chapter Twelve Preventing violent extremism through government and community partnershipsChapter Thirteen Reconciliation via compulsory communal labor: Opportunities and challenges uncovered by participatory ethnography research in post-colonial RwandaChapter Fourteen Students Talk, Listen and Act to Transform Conflict: A Case Study of a Service-Learning Project in Central Minnesota, U.S and Kajiado, KenyaChapter Fifteen Transformational pragmatics in the MENA uprisings: Reterritorialization in MoroccoChapter Sixteen A new set of tools for mediation: Connecting culture, conflict style, and outcome preferenceChapter Seventeen The Democratic Republic of Congo: language as tool of social cohesion or inter-provincial social conflictChapter Eighteen Engaging Narrative As Rights-Based Peace Praxis: Framing, Naming, And Witnessing In Overcoming Structural Violence And MarginalizationChapter Nineteen War, Peace, and MediaChapter Twenty If peace is a process, what is a war? The transformation of media coverage of a violent conflict

An expansive volume that captures the elusive complexity of communication in multi-party, ethno-political conflicts. A penetrating read that bridges the theory and practice of large scale dispute intervention.