Expanding the Edges of Narrative Inquiry

Laura E. Reimer is research associate with the Arthur V. Mauro Institute for Peace and Justice.Katerina Standish is deputy director at the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Otago.Chuck Thiessen is associate professor at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations at Coventry University.

• Introduction: Why Storytelling?Chapter 1: Ethnography for Border Justice: Methodological Considerations for Peacebuilding. Chapter 2: “I Remember Everything:” Anchoring Dialogue in Cultures of Peace. Chapter 3. Circles Conversation in the Service of Substantive Peace: Restorative Justice, Catholic Social Teaching, and Transformation. Chapter 4. Conflict Narratives: Using ‘Social Cubism’ to Explore the Social/Cultural Origins of Conflict in Sri Lanka, Bosnia and Northern IrelandChapter 5. Hear My Tears: Narratives of War and Resilience by the Women and Children of CongoChapter 6. The Meaning of Words: Qualitative Research to Address Social ChallengesChapter 7. The Power of Found Poetry: Exploring Faith and Community among Canadian Prairie Women Chapter 8. From Dissertation to the Stage: Reflections on the Use of Theatre as Cultural Work for Social JusticeChapter 9. Being and Becoming: A Photographic Inquiry with Bahá’í Men into Cultures of Peace: The Essence of an Arts-based Doctoral StudyChapter 10. A Conflict Transformation Story: Language Learning among Deaf ChildrenChapter 11. Storytelling Research For and As Conflict Transformation: Indigenous Canadians Explain Dropping out of SchoolChapter 12. Conclusions

“Written by a blend of academic veterans and emerging scholars who work in the field of peace and social justice studies, Expanding the Edges of Narrative Enquiry is an important new contribution to the academic literature on storytelling and the powerful impact this discipline has in local communities.”