The Routledge Handbook of Conflict and Peace Communication

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.