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Conflict Resolution is one of the fastest growing academic fields in the world today. Although it is a relatively young discipline, having emerged as a specialized field in the 1950s, it has rapidly grown into a self-contained, vibrant, interdisciplinary field. The SAGE Handbook of Conflict Resolution brings together all the conceptual, methodological, and substantive elements of Conflict Resolution into one volume of 35 specially commissioned chapters. The Handbook is designed to reflect where the field is today by drawing on the contributions of experts from different fields, presenting, in a systematic way, the most recent research and practice.
Media and Conflict Resolution
Media and Conflict Resolution
Interest in the media's roles in conflict and conflict resolution has been increasingly growing in the last fifteen years (Gilboa, 2000a, 2002a). Most studies, however, have focused on the often negative contributions of the media to the escalation and violence phases of conflict. Scholars have paid much less attention to conflict resolution and reconciliation. The interest in the media effects on conflicts stem from technological innovations in mass communication, primarily in proliferation of global television news networks and the Internet. The global networks can broadcast live from almost any place on the globe to any other place. Websites and weblogs provide state and non-state actors, as well as individuals, with endless opportunities to exchange and debate events and ...
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