Peace Communication Research Articles

The Role of Media in Peaceful Resolution of Civil Wars: The Case of Tajikistan from the Point of Peace Communication

The role of the media in conflicts has recently gained importance due to the fact that civil wars have taken place in various parts of the world. This role can either be positive or negative. Therefore, it is important to investigate how media outlets have been used during conflict situations in countries where civil wars have occurred. In light of the background information regarding Northern Ireland, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Ruanda and Sierra Leone, the case of Tajikistan civil war was explored in this study from a peace communication perspective. Content analysis, interviews and document analysis techniques were used to collect data. In particular, newspaper coverage, brochures, and radio broadcasts during the civil war were analyzed. The results show that the Tajikistan civil war started in the context of weak socio-political climate, visible influence of foreign countries, and a loss of long-exercised control over media through the state apparatus. Before the war media caused increasing tension in the society but the role of media has changed during the peace talks. Significant work has been done to end the civil war in Tajikistan in terms of all aspects of peace communication. The media generally played a vital role in promoting peace among people and encouraging the fighting parties to reach a consensus. In general, both the pro-government and pro-opposition media acted toward the direction of making peace. In particular, the pro-government newspapers Jumhuriyat and Sadoi Mardum reflected a peaceful view on behalf of the official government. The radio program Khoki Vatan (Homeland), which was created and broadcasted by the Radio of Tajikistan, also played a major role in promoting peace.

Peace Communication in Cross-border Media Flows

Peace Communication in Cross-border Media Flows

Concepciones y prácticas de la(s) comunicación(es) para la paz. Actores y propuestas formales en perspectiva crítica

<p>Communication for peace is a multi-faceted area which is based primordially in practice and lacks of academic quorum. With the aim of collecting and analyzing the various acceptations that can be found in formal literature, this study presents a taxonomic proposal. This proposal includes the variety of senses presents in academic papers, the practices associated to those, and the actors that facilitate its implementation. Taking into account the conclusions found, this paper also analyses the dominant paradigms from a critical approach; and it offers questions for further research.</p><strong>Received</strong>: 31 March 2015<br /><strong>Accepted</strong>: 30 June 2015<br /><strong>Published online</strong>: 11 December 2017

Emotion and Deception, Jewish-Arab Community Peace Building, Restorative Justice and Communication, and Anger and Attribution: An Introduction to the Special Issue on Conceptual Reviews

Emotion and Deception, Jewish-Arab Community Peace Building, Restorative Justice and Communication, and Anger and Attribution: An Introduction to the Special Issue on Conceptual Reviews

Communication for peace as a social transformation tool

This article proposes to use the concept of communication for peace as a tool to improve the quality of information disseminated by the media. Firstly, it seeks to build a definition of communication for peace, and establish the minimum standards that this type of social communication matters. Then, it is intended to establish certain criteria to identify their presence in the media, and propose reforms in the respective public policies, but not before performing an analysis using statistics on the current situation of our radio and television.

Bridging the gap between the particular and the universal: an intervention by Cemil Meriç

ABSTRACTThis paper investigates whether the Turkish intellectual Cemil Meriç’s metaphor of silent yet peaceful communication among world literature classics on the same bookshelf might be employed in international political theory in contrast to traditional cosmopolitan or communitarian approaches, which favor either the particular or the universal in constructing social actors. Reviewing Meriç’s works and his conceptualizations of umran and irfan, we first inspect the underlying separation between what Meriç calls the processes of nationalism and nationalization. Meriç defines the latter as a form of people’s construction, which curiously echoes Ernesto Laclau’s definition of social articulations among conflicting particularities under a universal signifier. We then attempt to extend Meriç’s approach toward the international in order to transcend the Westphalian tradition in international relations and to reinterpret Andrew Linklater’s normative cosmopolitanism by lifting the prerequisite of dialogue among international actors for peaceful coexistence.

Mechanographic Beauty: Jan Tschichold’s Letterheads and Envelopes Collection

Numerous letterheads and envelopes held in Jan Tschichold’s archive at the Getty Research Institute can be seen as a true artistic collection. Their layout is closely linked to the mechanical requirements of the first machine age because of the real enthusiasm of European avant-garde artists for the typewriter, which was considered an important symbol of peaceful international communication. In the 1920s and 1930s, the typewriter became the subject of numerous photographs and posters. It was also a tool for producing a new kind of work of art in which the boundaries between visual art and poetry were blurred. Graphic designers from different countries elaborated together a new aesthetics of letterheads based on sans serif fonts, geometrical shapes, and primary colors. Such a pure design was supposed to be balanced by the forms of the typewritten letters used by the client. Therefore, standard letterheads represented the first step toward “participatory design.”

Conceptualising ‘communication for peace’

The importance of considering media and communication processes generally in the study of conflict formation and escalation has been widely recognised and researched. Extrapolating from their relevance for those processes, there exists a widespread conviction that communication also bears similar potential to contribute to conflict transformation and peacebuilding. This kind of assertion, however, as of yet, rests mainly on argumentation in analogy to their role in conflict escalation processes, and therefore largely leaves implicit the what and how of such assumed constructive contributions as well as the underlying conceptualisation of peace and communication. Together, this makes for a thoroughly fragmented ‘field’ of research from distinct, but still largely insulated disciplines, which carries nonetheless the seeds of a more comprehensive understanding of what is here tentatively termed ‘communication for peace’ (C4P) that could provide cross-pollination and contribute to a more thorough engagement with what is an important and increasingly vibrant area of activities. The present article therefore seeks to examine what could be the groundwork to build a framework for C4P on, to identify the major areas of relevant research that exist, lacunae in this body of work and fruitful intersections between different disciplines.

The Peace System – As a Self-referential Communication System

Peace communication as diplomatic communication is an often neglected phenomenon in social and political theory that concerns problems of international order, justice and peace. Political philosophy seldom embarks on the theme with more than a few comments. Yet, throughout history, diplomacy has a strong record not only for negotiations but also for social learning processes about communication codes. Many codes of respect, trust, expression and listening have a top-down history from aristocratic circles to broader social layers. However, the article argues that communication codes of peace developed in opposition to violence and war exactly when they transgress dividing lines allow for cross-cultural and even cross-stratified communication. The article’s main point is to describe how such communication codes about peace and diplomacy can be described in recent social theory of communication, and to get some added value in this respect Niklas Luhmann’s theory of self-referential communication systems has been applied.

Theorizing Post-conflict Peace Communication: Can Rwandan Women’s Narratives of Sexual Violence Become the Point of Departure for Research?

Theorizing Post-conflict Peace Communication: Can Rwandan Women’s Narratives of Sexual Violence Become the Point of Departure for Research?

Kai kurie jaunuolių altruizmo internalizacijos būklės bruožai

Straipsnyje remiantis empiriniais tyrimais Lietuvos mastu atskleidžiami kai kurie jaunuolių altruizmo internalizacijos būklės bruožai. Taikant diagnostinį trijų - aukštos, vidutinės, žemos - altruizmo pakopų pjūvį pagal dorinės pozicijos struktūros komponentus analizuojama, kaip jaunuoliai supranta altruizmo esmę, suvokia jo prasmę; kaip jie vertina savo altruistinius išgyvenimus, siekius ir altruistinį savo elgesį.

Attitudes of Serbian "returnees" about identity Serbs and Croats

Attitudes of Serbian "returnees" of Livanjsko polje about ethnic identity of Us, Serbs, and Them, Croats, are demonstrated in this article. Croats that have political control and social-economic power, appear as "Significant Others", but also Strangers, representatives of different peaceful and humanitarian organizations. Religious belief and language appear as basic symbol of difference, Marker, between Serbs and Croats, although existing attitudes in a bigger measure rely on religious belief. Basic attitudes about identity Us and Them are led out from interrelations of these Markers and people. There are two groups of attitudes about Us-identity. The 119 first group is mostly the answer at negative external determination, by which the Serbs are determinate as nationalists and aggressors. They are steered on negation of such definition, so the Serbs are generally seen as peaceful, tolerant, nationalists - internationalists; shortly, as bearers of positive collective, but also individual relation to Others. The second group of attitudes mainly relates negative aspects of Serbian identity. There are Serbian dissension, individual interests, generally - attitudes which speak about collective, but also individual negative relation of Serbs to members of their own group. Both groups of attitudes could be explaining by interrelation of orthodox religion and people. This determination of Us, as it is limited by external definition, in that way qualifies determination of Them. So, the Croats, considering the interrelation of Catholicism and people, are seen as nationalists, with clear religion - national aim and steered to its realization - as aggressors. Though, here are both negative and positive attitudes about Croat identity. If positive or negative aspects of that identity would obtain, before all depends of the fact in which measure the Croats are steered by their church, in fact, which politics, in the certain time, the catholic church prosecutes relate to orthodox church. Therefore the Croat appears as bearers of individual-positive relation to Others (Serbs), when the church do not steer them in other way. So, until the catholic, religious politics is neutral, harmonious ethnic relations are possible, owing this positive aspect of Croat identity at individual plan and aspects of Serbian identity at both, collective and individual, plan (regardless of effect of church). On concrete terrain of Livanjsko polje, Serbs see there selves as the most representative bearers of positive aspects of Serbian identity, and neighbor’s Croats (from Livno) as people with enough distanced positive aspect of Croat identity. So, ethnic identity could be the bridge in the peaceful communication of two ethnic groups which were, lately, just because of ethnic identity, conflicted (with developed militant communication).

The Role of Peace Communication in Conflict Resolution in Africa

Peace is not news. In fact, the systems that provide news do not seem to recognize peace as newsworthy. It becomes news against the background of war. So unnewsworthy is peace that to have worth, wars have to be waged nowadays by third parties (variously called international peace-keeping forces) to bring warring partners to the peace table. Somalia is a clear example of how a peacekeeping mission became a peace enforcement mission that resulted in the deaths of thousands of Somalis. Paradoxically, people had to be killed in great numbers to enforce peace. The Somalis that lost their lives by the deadly weapons of an intervening international force died brutally. The purpose of this article is to examine the role of peace communication in conflict resolution processes in Africa. The article will focus on a position grounded in some of the basic communication assumptions and principles that are supposed to guide human behavior. The basic position referred to above is that the context within which peace communication could be effective in Africa is marred by extraneous factors that are compounded by the absence of a concerted effort at creating the cadre of peace communication experts required to work in unison with colleagues in the political and social spheres. Peace communication is defined as a communication process aimed at achieving peace with a distinct suasory characteristic feature, operating within a context composed of cultural warrants that form the bases for justification of actions.

Communication and culture in war and peace

Preface - Johan Galtung Introduction - Colleen Roach Information and Culture in War and Peace - Colleen Roach Overview Communication and Information Technology for War and Peace - Vincent Mosco Dealing With Reality - Peter Bruck with Colleen Roach The News Media and the Promotion of Peace Not Yet the Postimperialist Era - Herbert I Schiller The Culture of Western Bureaucratic Capitalism - Sheila Collins Implications for War and Peace From Domination to Partnership - Riane Eisler The Foundations for Global Peace Feminist Peace Researchers, Culture and Communications - Colleen Roach Ethnic Discourse and the New World Dysorder - Majid Tehranian A Communitarian Perspective Communication, Peace and International Law - Howard Frederick

Peace communication: A survey of current attitudes, curricular practice and research priorities

This study describes a survey of the current relationship between speech communication education and peace education at the college level. Issues addressed include attitudes toward peace education, actual teaching related to peace and peacemaking, and peace research priorities. Discussion focuses on the diverse and often contradictory attitudes held by respondents and the consequent study opportunities and obligations for the SCA Peace Communication Commission.

A Theory of War and a Strategy for Peace Selective Societal Processes and Communication Between Nations

A Theory of War and a Strategy for Peace Selective Societal Processes and Communication Between Nations

Communication for Peace and Justice

The Ecumenical ReviewVolume 36, Issue 1 p. 64-70 Communication for Peace and Justice Michael Traber, Michael Traber Dr Traber is Executive Secretary of the World Association for Christian Communication in London.Search for more papers by this author Michael Traber, Michael Traber Dr Traber is Executive Secretary of the World Association for Christian Communication in London.Search for more papers by this author First published: January 1984 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1758-6623.1984.tb03618.x AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume36, Issue1January 1984Pages 64-70 RelatedInformation