This first-of-its-kind volume brings discursive psychology and peace
psychology together in a compelling practical synthesis. An array of
internationally-recognised contributors examine multiple dimensions of
discourse--official and casual, speech, rhetoric, and text--in creating
and maintaining conflict and building mediation and reconciliation.
Examples of strategies for dealing with longstanding conflicts (the
Middle East), significant flashpoints (the Charlie Hebdo case), and
current heated disputes (the refugee 'crisis' in Europe) demonstrate
discursive methods in context as they bridge theory with real life. This
diversity of subject matter is matched by the range of discursive
approaches applied to peace psychology concepts, methods, and practice.
Among the topics covered:
- Discursive approaches to violence against women.
- The American gun control debate: a discursive analysis.
- Constructing peace and violence in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
- Discursive psychological research on refugees.
- Citizenship, social injustice, and the quest for a critical social
psychology of peace.
- The emotional and political power of images of suffering: discursive
psychology and the study of visual rhetoric.
Discourse, Peace, and Conflict offers expansive ideas to scholars and
practitioners in peace psychology, as well as those in related areas
such as social psychology, political psychology, and community
psychology with an interest in issues pertaining to peace and conflict.
