The Routledge Handbook of Conflict and Peace Communication (Routledge Handbooks in Communication Studies)

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.

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.

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.

Stacey L. Connaughton is Professor in The Brian Lamb School of Communication and the Director of the Purdue Policy Research Institute at Purdue University, USA.

Stefanie Pukallus is Professor of Public Communication and Civil Development at the School of Journalism, Media and Communication at the University of Sheffield, UK. She is also the Founding Chair of the Hub for the Study of Hybrid Communication in Peacebuilding.