The language of peace : communicating to create harmony

The Language of Peace: Communicating to Create Harmony offers practical insights for educators, students, researchers, peace activists, and all others interested in communication for peace. This book is a perfect text for courses in peace education, communications, media, culture, and other fields....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Oxford, Rebecca L. (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2013]
SeriesPeace education.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806613793
DOI10.1108/978-1-62396-096-4
Physical Description1 online resource (xxiii, 355 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Part a. Fundamentals of communication for peace
  • Chapter 1. Discovering the language of peace: Six principles
  • Chapter 2. The language of peace in action
  • Chapter 3. On conflict
  • Chapter 4. Naming and transforming violence
  • Part b. Learning the language of peace through words and images
  • Chapter 5. Transforming society: A critical discourse analysis of dr. King's i have a dream speech
  • Chapter 6. Peace poetry: The drum of reality
  • Chapter 7. Becoming artists of life: Using visual images as a language for learning multidimensional peace
  • Chapter 8. Transforming war journalism and circus journalism for peace and balance
  • Part c. Using peace language across cultures
  • Chapter 9. Changing minds: From creating enemies to creating unity and understanding, rebecca oxford, dorrie hancock, and julie zdanoski
  • Chapter 10. Communicative gold: Transforming communication between collectivist and individualist cultures
  • Chapter 11. Harmony and discord across cultural dialects of body language, rebecca oxford and lauren mackenzie
  • Part d. The language of peace in all of us
  • Chapter 12. The people's peace: Fresh ideas and images, tasha parrish and rebecca oxford.