Communication in Peacebuilding

Stefanie Pukallus is Senior Lecturer in Public Communication and Civil Development at the University of Sheffield, UK. She is co-founder and Chair of the Hub for the Study of Hybrid Communication in Peacebuilding (HCPB).

• 1. Introduction: Civil Wars and Communicative Peacebuilding.- 2. Civil War as Discursive Dehumanisation.- 3. Remnants of Civil Life and Civil Potential in Post-Civil War Settings.- 4. Communicative Peacebuilding: Discursive Civility and Safe Discursive Spaces.- 5. The Transformative Capacity of Communication: Integrative Communicative Acts across the Communicative Spectrum of Civil Society.