Narrating Peace
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Narrating Peace

How to Tell a Conflict Story

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Narrating Peace

How to Tell a Conflict Story

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About This Book

This book provides practical tools, models, and frameworks for thinking about how a story is structured, all in order to help us think about conflict. Using examples from literature and films for developing narrative competence in everyday life, the book illustrates a new model of four basic plot types that can push a reader/viewer either toward political struggle (a justice or vindication story) or toward a journey of self-realization (a peace or reconciliation story). The examples used in the book span a wide array of conflict situations, from climate change to native American genocide, from reproductive rights and gender-based violence to Algerian independence and Arab identity, from Jim Crow segregation and civil rights to the Vietnam War and colonial collapse, from Latino educational opportunities to the liberation of Bengal and the emergence of the idea of the Global South. This simple-to-use model of story grammar is integral for the practice of both politics and peacemaking and opens a new window on literary analysis and the craft of storytelling. Along the way, it provides us with a new way to understand human purpose and offers precise definitions of the concepts of peace and justice.

This book will be of great interest to students and practitioners of international relations, security studies, political theory, and peace and conflict/justice studies.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2024
ISBN
9781040104477
Edition
1
Topic
Politics & International Relations
Subtopic
Peace & Global Development
Index
Politics & International Relations

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Endorsements
  3. Half Title
  4. Series
  5. Title
  6. Copyright
  7. Dedication
  8. Contents
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Preface: The Boy Who Fell
  11. 1 Introduction: Story Grammar
  12. 2 Post-plot Pressure: Adversarial Struggles and Collaborative Journeys
  13. 3 The Satirical Struggle: Stories of Intolerable Defeat
  14. 4 The Romantic Struggle: Stories of Injustice Overcome
  15. 5 The Tragic Journey: Stories of Painful Self-Realization
  16. 6 The Comic Journey: Stories of Self-Discovery
  17. 7 Purpose as Plot Structure: A Definition of the Concepts of Peace and Justice Within Narrative Precision
  18. References
  19. Index