Routledge Handbook of Conflict and Peace Communication

<p>This handbook provides a comprehensive review of research in conflict and peace communication and offers readers a range of insights into foundational ongoing and emerging discussions in this field.</p><p>The volume brings together peace studies conflict studies and communication studies to acknowledge the power of communication—both cooperative solidarizing and integrative as well as destructive and divisive—in constituting social relations. It features a multiplicity of authors including academics and practitioners from all corners of the globe and from across the communicative spectrum. The handbook is divided into four parts: (1) Meta-theoretical theoretical and methodological approaches in conflict and peace communication research; (2) Conflict communication; (3) Peace communication; and (4) Cross-cutting and emergent themes.</p><p>This handbook is essential reading for scholars research-driven practitioners graduate-level students and upper-level undergraduate students in conflict and peace communication within disciplines such as communication studies political science international relations security studies and human rights.</p>