This volume captures the essence of how we communicate differences in relationships, between and across cultures, in organizations, through education and in moments of local and global conflict and crisis that demonstrates the importance and viability of approaching peace and conflict communication from various fields within communication studies.

This volume captures the essence of how we communicate differences in relationships, between and across cultures, in organizations, through education and in moments of local and global conflict and crisis that demonstrates the importance and viability of approaching peace and conflict communication from various fields within communication studies.

1. Introduction: Communicating Differences: Towards Breaking the Boundaries for Peace and Conflict Research in Communication; Sudeshna Roy and Ibrahim Seaga Shaw
PART I: FROM MACRO TO MICRO – INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION AT THE HEART OF CONFLICT NEGOTIATION
2. An Intercultural Peacebuilding Framework: Extending the Conversation through a Focus on Connections; Mary Jane Collier
3. Reporting the Lee Rigby Murder and Anti-Muslim Hostilities in the UK in 2013: The Cultural Clash Communication and Human Wrongs Journalism Nexus; Ibrahim Seaga Shaw
4. Peacebuilding Through Dialogue In Northern Ireland; John S. Caputo
5. Cultural Affirmative Philosophy; Mariam Betlemidze
PART II: FROM LOCAL TO GLOBAL: MEDIATED IDENTITIES IN CONFLICTED CULTURES
6. What '' ''s in a Name?: Examining Representation of Indian Ethnicities in Bollywood Movies in the New Millennium; Sudeshna Roy
7. The Mediterranean Clandestine: A Friend or a Foe?; Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager
8. Peace or Conflict Maker: Role of News Media in South Korea '' ''s Multicultural Society; MiSun Lee and Jinbong Choi
9. The Construction of Human Rights in U.S. and Chinese Philosophical Discourse; Yanqin Liu
PART III: FROM DECONSTRUCTION TO RECONSTRUCTION: REBOOTING FRAMEWORKS OF EDUCATION ON CULTURE, CONFLICT AND PEACE
10. Narrative, Decolonial Education, and Societal Transformation; Patrick Belanger
11. Pakistani Cultural Characteristics: Updated VSM Scores and Facework Geared Towards Increasing Women '' ''s Access to Education; Rebecca Merkin
12. Constructing Frostburg '' ''s '' ''Cooler '' '' Future: Sustaining Campus and Community through a Dialogue Series in an Appalachian College Town; Elesha L. Ruminski
13. Jewish-Muslim Women '' ''s Leadership Initiative: A Program for Peaceful Dialogue; Jing Lin, Sachi Edwards and Sahar Khamis
PART IV: FROM SINGULAR/STATIC TO MULTIPLE/DYNAMIC: CREATIVE AND ALTERNATIVE COMMUNICATION APPROACHES TO CONFLICT NEGOTIATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE
14. Differing and Disparaging Arguments about Gender Roles: Creating Peace through Talking about Threats and Relational Dialectics; Garry Bailey
15. Ordinary Grocery Shopping for Promoting Peace and Justice: Global Impacts of Being a Conscientious Shopper; Max Saito
16. Promoting Peace through Songs: Peace Activism during the Afghan Conflict; Roshan Noorzai and Claudia L. Hale
17. Peacebuilding through Interfaith Dialogue: The Role of Faith-based NGOs; Nur Uysal