Communication in Peacebuilding: Civil Wars, Civility and Safe Spaces

Acknowledgements
Contents
1 Introduction: Civil Wars and Communicative Peacebuilding
	Civil Wars: A Global Challenge
	Civil Society, Communication and Communicative Peacebuilding
		Civil Society
		Defining Communication
		Communicative Peacebuilding
	Mapping the Argument
	Final Introductory Remark
	References
2 Civil War as Discursive Dehumanisation
	Towards a Definition of the ‘Civil’ in Civil War
	Civil War: An Attack on Civil Peace as Peaceful Cooperation
		Defining Civil Peace as Peaceful Cooperation
		Attacking Civil Peace as Peaceful Cooperation Through Discursive Dehumanisation
			The Creation of an Internal Enemy
			The Discursive Dehumanisation of This Internal Enemy Across the Communicative Spectrum of Civil Society
		The Damage Caused by Discursive Dehumanisation
			A Distorted Communicative Environment
			Loss of Civil Relationships
			Lack of Functioning Civil Institutions
	Conclusion
	References
3 Remnants of Civil Life and Civil Potential in Post-civil War Settings
	Post-civil War Settings: Recognising Civil Possibilities
	Remnants of Civil Life
		The Repertoire of Remnants of Civil Life in Post-Civil War Societies
		Remnants of Civil Consciousness
	The Civil Potential of Non-Civil Ties
		Remnants of Hostility Towards Non-civil Ties
		The Nature of Three Types of Non-civil Ties and Their Civil Potential
			Primordial Ties: Their Nature and Civil Potential
			Platoon Ties: Their Nature and Civil Potential
			Ideological Ties: Their Nature and Civil Potential
		Conclusion on the Three Types of Non-civil Ties and Their Civil Potential
	References
4 Communicative Peacebuilding: Discursive Civility and Safe Discursive Spaces
	The Importance of Communication in Building Civil Peace as Peaceful Cooperation
	Discursive Civility
	Safe Discursive Spaces
		Introduction: Safe Spaces in Peacebuilding
		Safe Discursive Spaces as Space, Place and Location
			Safe Discursive Spaces as a Certain Kind of Space
			Safe Discursive Spaces as a Particular Place
			Safe Discursive Spaces as a Specific Location
		The Three Principles of Discursive Civility as a Guarantor for Safety
			The Ethico-pragmatic Purpose of a Safe Discursive Space
		Safe Discursive Spaces and Power as Domination
	References
5 The Transformative Capacity of Communication: Integrative Communicative Acts Across the Communicative Spectrum of Civil Society
	The Transformative Capacity of Communication
		Arts as Communication
		The Transformative Communicative Capacity: Dewey and Jaspers
		The Transformative Capacity of Communication Across the Communicative Spectrum of Civil Society
	Some Sketches of Civil Engagement as Integrative Communicative Acts
		News Journalism
			Newsroom
			Editorial Guidelines and News Reports
			Participants and Audiences
			News Journalism as a Safe Discursive Space
		Theatre
			Production Team
			Theatre Production
			The Audience: From Silent Witness to ‘Spec-Actors’
			Theatre as a Safe Discursive Space
		Music
			Production Team/Performers
			The Music Itself
			The Audience (as Occasional Participants)
			Music as a Safe Discursive Space
		Memorials
			Artists/Community Production of Memorials
			The Memorial Itself
			The Audience as Viewers, Readers and Listeners
			Public Memorials as a Safe Discursive Space
	The Power of Integrative Communicative Acts
	A Final Remark
	References
Index