The Contributions of Communication and Media Studies to Peace Education

• In Event: Mananging Conflict and Contributing to Peace in Educational Settings

Abstract

Peace education (PE) teaches people and groups grassroots strategies for preventing outbreaks of violence, managing ongoing conflict and sustaining newly signed peace accords. Thanks to advances in communication technology these strategies can be used outside of the formal education setting. In this paper, we argue that communication and media studies are central to PE and explain why. We elaborate on their centrality to intergroup relations and the PE processes that try to alter those relations.

Authors

• Donald Ellis, University of Hartford

• Yael Warshel, American University