Promoting Peace Inciting Violence

<p>This book explores how media and religion combine to play a role in promoting peace and inciting violence. It analyses a wide range of media - from posters cartoons and stained glass to websites radio and film - and draws on diverse examples from around the world including Iran Rwanda and South Africa.</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>Part One considers how various media forms can contribute to the creation of violent environments: by memorialising past hurts; by instilling fear of the ‘other’; by encouraging audiences to fight to die or to kill neighbours for an apparently greater good. </li> <li>Part Two explores how film can bear witness to past acts of violence how film-makers can reveal the search for truth justice and reconciliation and how new media can become sites for non-violent responses to terrorism and government oppression. To what extent can popular media arts contribute to imagining and building peace transforming weapons into art swords into ploughshares?</li> </ul><p>Jolyon Mitchell skillfully combines personal narrative practical insight and academic analysis.</p>