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Communication and Peace: Understanding the Nature of Texts as a Way to Resolve Conceptual Differences in the Emerging Field

Global Media and Communication, volume 11, issue 3 (2015), pp. 1-14
"Using the chapters of the edited volume Communication and Peace: Mapping an Emerging Field, the article points out the shared interpretative repertoires of the contributions to build a broader case for commonalities within the diverse field of communication-related disciplines and practices, which share the goal of building/making peace. Furthermore, the article differentiates communication disciplines according to the narrative relationship with reality of the cultural texts they deal with, categorizes them according to their functions of symbolic creation and symbolic-creating-chronicling and charts them according to their contiguous relationship with peacebuilding/making as a way to unify the field of communication and peace." (Abstract)