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Title Radical conflict : essays on violence, intractability, and communication / edited by Andrew R. Smith ; foreword by Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im.

Publication Info. Lanham : Lexington Books, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Peace and conflict studies
Peace and conflict studies (Lanham, Md.)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I: Interpersonal, Communal, and Ethnopolitical Violations; Chapter One: Suffering Symbolic Violence; Chapter Two: Intractable Conflict in a Slowly-Evolving Environmental Disaster; Chapter Three: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and Incommensurability; II: Polarizations for Pluralist Democracy; Chapter Four: Muslim Brotherhood and the Militarized State; Chapter Five: Radical Antagonists; Chapter Six: Zimbabwe's Transition Struggle; Chapter Seven: Entelechy, Eschatology, Blasphemy; III: Global and Geopolitical Rearrangements
Chapter Eight: Political Violence, Narratives of the Nation, and the New Global RearrangementsChapter Nine: The Power of Modern Diasporas in Global Politics; Chapter Ten: Agonistic Discourse(s) in the Sahara Conflict; IV: Rhetoric(s) of Rights and Law(s); Chapter Eleven: Flexing Soft Power Locally and Globally; Chapter Twelve: From Radical to Rational Frames; Chapter Thirteen: Is There a Right to Die?; Index; About the Contributors
Summary This book examines instances of radical conflict in order to provide critical analyses of media and mediation implicated in such conflicts, often for ill but sometimes for good. Chapters offer ways of thinking intended to attenuate spirals of violence and move radical conflicts toward new means of discourse.
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Subject Political violence.
Political violence.
Violence in mass media.
Violence in mass media.
terrorism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Added Author Smith, Andrew R., 1953- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Radical conflict. Lanham : Lexington Books, [2016] 9781498521772 (DLC) 2016010022
ISBN 9781498521789 (Electronic)
1498521789
9781498521772 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
1498521770