Communicating Differences

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

   PDF

2. Introduction — Communicating Differences: Toward Breaking the Boundaries for Peace and Conflict Research in Communication

   1. Introduction — Communicating Differences: Toward Breaking the Boundaries for Peace and Conflict Research in Communication

      • Sudeshna Roy, Ibrahim Seaga Shaw

      Pages 1-11

3. From Macro to Micro—Intercultural Communication at the Heart of Conflict Negotiation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

      PDF

   2. An Intercultural Peacebuilding Framework: Extending the Conversation through a Focus on Connections

      • Mary Jane Collier

      Pages 15-28

   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

      Pages 29-53

   4. Peacebuilding through Dialogue in Northern Ireland

      • John S. Caputo

      Pages 54-67

   5. Ethnic Conflicts and Deleuzo-Guattarian Rhizomes of Cultural Affirmation

      • Mariam Betlemidze

      Pages 68-83

4. From Local to Global: Mediated Identities in Conflicted Cultures

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85

      PDF

   2. What’s in a Name?: Examining Representation of Indian Ethnicities in Bollywood Movies in the New Millennium

      • Sudeshna Roy

      Pages 87-103

   3. A Mediterranean Clandestine: A Friend or a Foe?

      • Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager

      Pages 104-114

   4. Peace or Conflict Maker: The Role of News Media in South Korea’s Multicultural Society

      • MiSun Lee, Jinbong Choi

      Pages 115-130

   5. The Construction of Human Rights in US and Chinese Philosophical Discourse

      • Yanqin Liu

      Pages 131-144

5. From Deconstruction to Reconstruction: Rebooting Frameworks of Education on Culture, Conflict, and Peace

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145

      PDF

   2. Narrative, Decolonial Education, and Societal Transformation

      • Patrick Belanger

      Pages 147-167

   3. Pakistani Cultural Characteristics: Updated VSM Scores and Facework Geared towards Increasing Women’s Access to Education

      • Rebecca Merkin

      Pages 168-181

   4. Constructing Frostburg’s ‘Cooler’ Future: Sustaining Campus and Community through a Dialogue Series in an Appalachian College Town

      • Elesha L. Ruminski

      Pages 182-202

   5. Jewish-Muslim Women’s Leadership Initiative: A Program for Peaceful Dialogue

      • Jing Lin, Sachi Edwards, Sahar Khamis

      Pages 203-217

6. From Singular/Static to Multiple/Dynamic: Creative and Alternative Communication Approaches to Conflict Negotiation and Social Change

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 219-219

      PDF

   2. Differing and Disparate Arguments about Gender Roles: Creating Peace through Talking about Threats and Relational Dialectics

      • Garry Bailey

      Pages 221-234

   3. Ordinary Grocery Shopping for Promoting Peace and Justice: Global Impacts of Being a Conscientious Shopper

      • Max Saito

      Pages 235-250

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.

• communication
• communication studies
• community
• education
• gender
• gender roles
• intercultural communication
• organization
• philosophy
• social change
• transformation

• Stephen F. Austin State University, USA

  Sudeshna Roy

• Northumbria University, UK

  Ibrahim Seaga Shaw

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

Policies and ethics