Communication in Peacebuilding

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This book is concerned with the role that communication, understood as including both the factual and fictional mass media as well as the performative and visual arts, can play in post-civil war peacebuilding. It engages with questions of how a society can move from the civil war conditions of discursive dehumanisation to peaceful cooperation in post-civil war settings and how peacebuilders can help communities utilise the transformative capacity of communication to encourage the reimagining of and engagement with former enemies as co-citizens. Ultimately, civil and peaceful cooperation depends on the observance of discursive civility and the building of safe discursive spaces in which civil engagement between different groups of society (including former combatants and survivors) can safely take place. This book argues that understanding communicative peacebuilding in this way is fundamental to the achievement of self-sustainable everyday peace.

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). 

This book is concerned with the role that communication - understood as including both the factual and fictional mass media as well as the performative and visual arts - can play in post-civil war peacebuilding. It engages with questions of how a society can move from the civil war conditions of discursive dehumanisation to peaceful cooperation in post-civil war settings and how peacebuilders can help communities utilise the transformative capacity of communication to encourage the reimagining of and engagement with former enemies as co-citizens. Ultimately, civil and peaceful cooperation depends on the observance of discursive civility and the building of safe discursive spaces in which civil engagement between different groups of society (including former combatants and survivors) can safely take place. This book argues that understanding communicative peacebuilding in this way is fundamental to the achievement of self-sustainable everyday peace.

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Stefanie Pukallus

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Communication in Peacebuilding Communication Peacebuilding Civil War Safe Spaces Post-Civil War Discursive Dehumanisation Communication Weapons Civil Societies Self-Sustainable Civil Peace Civil Peace Discursive Civility Ex-combatants Ex-child Soldiers Reintegration Programmes

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“Dr Pukallus invites us all to consider our responsibility in building peace. Integrating work from international relations, communication theory, philosophy, peacebuilding and beyond, this is a must-read for academics and practitioners interested in the relationship between communication and peacebuilding.” (Stacey Connaughton, Professor, Brian Lamb School or Communication, Purdue University, USA)

 “This book shows that peace becomes sustainable only when peacebuilders recognize ‘the civil potential of non-civil ties’. Its refreshingly inclusive engagement with ex-combatants demonstrates that their ‘platoon ties’ are not just the residue of war but a complex social resource necessary for peace. Pukallus elaborates an important communicative framework of peace that hopefully and persuasively envisages security and civility as communal processes of becoming and belonging.” (Jaremey McMullin, Senior Lecturer, University of St. Andrews, UK)

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