Narrating Peace: How to Tell a Conflict Story (Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution)

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Synopsis
This book provides practical tools, models, and frameworks for thinking about how a story is structured, all in order to help us think about conflict. 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 push a reader/viewer either 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.
Copyright:
2025

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
216 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781040104477
Related ISBNs:
9781032691329, 9781032691343, 9781040104460, 9781032691312
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
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Copyrighted By:
Solon Simmons, The right of Solon Simmons to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
History, Military, Nonfiction, Politics and Government
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.

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