Communicating Differences: Culture, Media, Peace and Conflict Negotiation

This volume captures the essence of how we communicate differences in relationships, between and across cultures, in organizations, through education and in moments of local and global conflict and crisis that demonstrates the importance and viability of approaching peace and conflict communication from various fields within communication studies.

Table of Contents:
1. Introduction: Communicating Differences: Towards Breaking the Boundaries for Peace and Conflict Research in Communication; Sudeshna Roy and Ibrahim Seaga Shaw PART I: FROM MACRO TO MICRO – INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION AT THE HEART OF CONFLICT NEGOTIATION 2. An Intercultural Peacebuilding Framework: Extending the Conversation through a Focus on Connections; Mary Jane Collier 3. Reporting the Lee Rigby Murder and Anti-Muslim Hostilities in the UK in 2013: The Cultural Clash Communication and Human Wrongs Journalism Nexus; Ibrahim Seaga Shaw 4. Peacebuilding Through Dialogue In Northern Ireland; John S. Caputo 5. Cultural Affirmative Philosophy; Mariam Betlemidze PART II: FROM LOCAL TO GLOBAL: MEDIATED IDENTITIES IN CONFLICTED CULTURES 6. What '' ''s in a Name?: Examining Representation of Indian Ethnicities in Bollywood Movies in the New Millennium; Sudeshna Roy 7. The Mediterranean Clandestine: A Friend or a Foe?; Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager 8. Peace or Conflict Maker: Role of News Media in South Korea '' ''s Multicultural Society; MiSun Lee and Jinbong Choi 9. The Construction of Human Rights in U.S. and Chinese Philosophical Discourse; Yanqin Liu PART III: FROM DECONSTRUCTION TO RECONSTRUCTION: REBOOTING FRAMEWORKS OF EDUCATION ON CULTURE, CONFLICT AND PEACE 10. Narrative, Decolonial Education, and Societal Transformation; Patrick Belanger 11. Pakistani Cultural Characteristics: Updated VSM Scores and Facework Geared Towards Increasing Women '' ''s Access to Education; Rebecca Merkin 12. Constructing Frostburg '' ''s '' ''Cooler '' '' Future: Sustaining Campus and Community through a Dialogue Series in an Appalachian College Town; Elesha L. Ruminski 13. Jewish-Muslim Women '' ''s Leadership Initiative: A Program for Peaceful Dialogue; Jing Lin, Sachi Edwards and Sahar Khamis PART IV: FROM SINGULAR/STATIC TO MULTIPLE/DYNAMIC: CREATIVE AND ALTERNATIVE COMMUNICATION APPROACHES TO CONFLICT NEGOTIATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE 14. Differing and Disparaging Arguments about Gender Roles: Creating Peace through Talking about Threats and Relational Dialectics; Garry Bailey 15. Ordinary Grocery Shopping for Promoting Peace and Justice: Global Impacts of Being a Conscientious Shopper; Max Saito 16. Promoting Peace through Songs: Peace Activism during the Afghan Conflict; Roshan Noorzai and Claudia L. Hale 17. Peacebuilding through Interfaith Dialogue: The Role of Faith-based NGOs; Nur Uysal                                                                                         

About the Author :
Garry Bailey, Abilene Christian University, USA Patrick Belanger, California State University, USA Mariam Betlemidze, University of Utah, USA John S. Caputo, Gonzaga University, USA Jinbong Choi, Sungkonghoe University, South Korea Mary Jane Collier, University of New Mexico, USA Sachi Edwards, University of Maryland, USA Claudia L. Hale, Ohio University, USA Sahar Khamis, University of Maryland, USA Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager, Colorado State University, USA Misun Lee, Yonsei University, South Korea Yanqin Liu, Arizona State University, USA Jing Lin, University of Maryland, USA Rebecca Merkin, City University of New York, USA Roshan Noorzai, Ohio University, USA Elesha L. Ruminski, Frostburg State University, USA Max Saito, Westfield State University, USA Nur Uysal, Marquette University, USA