Transforming Conflict: Communication and Ethnopolitical Conflict / Edition 1

by Donald G. Ellis

Overview

This student-oriented book introduces and explains the dynamics of conflict and resolution—particularly in ethnic, ethnopolitical, and intercultural or intergroup conflicts. Providing a basic overview of the elements of group conflict, ethnicity, identity, and diasporas, the book also explores the role of the mass media and key ways of using communication principles to understand and resolve conflict. It focuses on how to resolve problems by changing relationships and building new patterns of communication, not just managing or settling problems through acceptable political agreements. Transforming Conflict is a valuable text or supplement for courses in conflict resolution as well as international, group, or intercultural communication.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780742539945
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	04/27/2006
Series:	Communication, Media, and Politics
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	214
Product dimensions:	6.42(w) x 8.94(h) x 0.68(d)

About the Author

Donald G. Ellis is professor of communication at the University of Hartford.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 1 Group Conflict Chapter 3 2 Ethnicity and Conflict Chapter 4 3 Identity Conflicts and Communication Chapter 5 4 Diasporas, Media, and Globalization Chapter 6 5 Media and Political Conflict Chapter 7 6 Micro and Macro Communication Issues and Ethnopolitical Conflict Chapter 8 7 Resolving Conflict Chapter 9 References

Editorial Reviews

No topic is more pertinent to contemporary social problems than ethnic conflict. Ellis integrates a wide array of political, psychological, and media literature to analyze symbolic and communicative approaches to ethnic conflicts. Challenging traditional perspectives, he presents a refreshing and powerful way to integrate micro processes with macro-political approaches through focusing on communicative relationships. This book is a must-read for practitioners, students, and scholars who aim to promote second-order change and conflict transformation.

Linda L. Putnam

Here is a most timely addition to our libraries: a book about getting along when nobody wants to get along. Today’s problems will not be solved by yesterday’s solutions. We can learn from our history; that is how we develop new solutions. If you are confronted by conflict that resists resolution, that seems to strike at the essential identity of some of your members and seems impervious to all that has worked before, this may be just the book for you.

Rev. Dr. David Moffet-Moore

Transforming Conflict is an admirable achievement. Don Ellis has produced an excellent and timely book examining not only the material and psychological causes of ethnic conflict but also bringing in the under-analyzed but crucial aspect of communications. Conceptually clear and empirically informed, this book is a must-read for students of ethnic conflict.

Richard C. M. Mole

No topic is more pertinent to contemporary social problems than ethnic conflict. Ellis integrates a wide array of political, psychological, and media literature to analyze symbolic and communicative approaches to ethnic conflicts. Challenging traditional perspectives, he presents a refreshing and powerful way to integrate micro processes with macro-political approaches through focusing on communicative relationships. This book is a must-read for practitioners, students, and scholars who aim to promote second-order change and conflict transformation.

Linda L. Putnam Linda L. Putnam

No topic is more pertinent to contemporary social problems than ethnic conflict. Ellis integrates a wide array of political, psychological, and media literature to analyze symbolic and communicative approaches to ethnic conflicts. Challenging traditional perspectives, he presents a refreshing and powerful way to integrate micro processes with macro-political approaches through focusing on communicative relationships. This book is a must-read for practitioners, students, and scholars who aim to promote second-order change and conflict transformation.--Linda L. Putnam, Texas A&M University

Transforming Conflict is an admirable achievement. Don Ellis has produced an excellent and timely book examining not only the material and psychological causes of ethnic conflict but also bringing in the under-analyzed but crucial aspect of communications. Conceptually clear and empirically informed, this book is a must-read for students of ethnic conflict.--Richard C. M. Mole, University College London

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