Narrating peace: how to tell a conflict story

"This book provides practical tools, models, and frameworks for thinking about how story is structured to help us think about conflict, using a wide range of examples. Using examples from literature and films for developing narrative competence in everyday life, the book illustrates a new model...

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1. Verfasser: Simmons, Solon (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York, NY Routledge 2025
Schriftenreihe:Routledge studies in peace and conflict resolution
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Zusammenfassung:"This book provides practical tools, models, and frameworks for thinking about how story is structured to help us think about conflict, using a wide range of examples. Using examples from literature and films for developing narrative competence in everyday life, the book illustrates a new model of four basic plot types that can either push a reader/viewer toward political struggle (a justice or vindication story) or toward a journey of self-realization (a peace or reconciliation story). The examples used in the book span a wide array of conflict situations, from climate change to native American genocide, from reproductive rights and gender-based violence, to Algerian independence and Arab identity, from Jim Crow segregation and civil rights to the Vietnam War and colonial collapse, from Latino educational opportunities to the liberation of Bengal and the emergence of the idea of the Global South. This simple-to-use model of story grammar is integral for the practice of both politics and peacemaking, and opens a new window on literary analysis and the craft of storytelling. Along the way, it provides us with a new way to understand human purpose and offers precise definitions of the concepts of peace and justice. This book will be of great interest to students and practitioners of International Relations, Security Studies, Political Theory and Peace and Conflict/Justice Studies"--
Beschreibung:xix, 142 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781032691312
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