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Elicitive Conflict Transformation and New Media: In Search for a Common Ground
- Source :
- Media and Communication, Vol 4, Iss 1, Pp 4-14 (2016), Media and Communication, Peacebuilding in the Age of New Media
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Cogitatio, 2016.
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Abstract
- Advocates of elicitive conflict transformation (ECT) maintain that the parties to a conflict are the most important resource in efforts to render that conflict less violent. According to them, the transformation of the conflict is immanent to the conflict itself. The claim of ECT theorists is that classical conflict resolution has mostly aimed at overcoming a conflict by means of neutral mediation, while conflict transformation is not primarily concerned with terminating a conflict and considers the conflict worker as part of the conflict system. Although ECT is a communication-based model of conflict management and relies on human media, its media-theoretical aspects are not made explicit, raising the question of what role technological media play in the communicative processes that make up ECT techniques. Through an examination of the claimed differences between conflict resolution and conflict transformation, and focusing on the common roots of new media and the elicitive model in systems and cybernetic theory, this paper asks whether any peacebuilding potential of new media could be found in a specific anti-propagandistic quality of distributed technological media. It concludes by looking at any such potential in social media. (author's abstract)
- Subjects :
- Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, Sicherheitspolitik
Peace and Conflict Research, International Conflicts, Security Policy
conflict management
new media theory
Digitale Medien
Konfliktlösung
media theory
ddc:070
lcsh:Communication. Mass media
060104 history
0508 media and communications
Soziale Medien
0601 history and archaeology
conflict resolution
Sociology
internationale Beziehungen
Political science
Law and economics
Medientheorie
Communication
Konflikttheorie
international relations
05 social sciences
internationaler Konflikt
peace media
06 humanities and the arts
lcsh:P87-96
Konfliktregelung
international politics
internationale Politik
Conflict theories
Social psychology
conflict research
elicitive conflict transformation
Politikwissenschaft
social media
interaktive Medien
050801 communication & media studies
neue Medien
conflict theory
Interactive, electronic Media
peacebuilding
Conflict resolution research
Conflict resolution
mediation
interaktive, elektronische Medien
digital media
Internal conflict
News media, journalism, publishing
Realistic conflict theory
Conflict transformation
interactive media
ddc:320
Mediation
Conflict management
Publizistische Medien, Journalismus,Verlagswesen
new media
international conflict
Konfliktforschung
peace process
Friedensprozess
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 21832439
- Volume :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Media and Communication
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....04809df27a326c1f594b88d754d84e6c