
Narrating Peace
How to Tell a Conflict Story
Solon Simmons(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 9. August 2024
Book
Hardback
142 pages
978-1-032-69132-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Postgraduate, Professional Reference, and Undergraduate Advanced
Illustrations
7 s/w Abbildungen, 7 s/w Zeichnungen
7 Line drawings, black and white; 7 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
417 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-69132-9 (9781032691329)
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Solon Simmons is the director of The Narrative Transformation Lab (TNT Lab) at George Mason University's Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution. A sociologist by training, he is the author of many books and articles on narrative and storytelling in peace and politics, including Conflict Resolution after the Pandemic: Building Peace, Pursuing Justice (2021) and Root Narrative Theory and Conflict Resolution: Power, Justice and Values (2020).
Content
1. Introduction: Story Grammar 2. Post-Plot Pressure: Adversarial Struggles and Collaborative Journeys 3. The Satirical Struggle: Stories of Intolerable Defeat 4. The Romantic Struggle: Stories of Injustice Overcome 5. The Tragic Journey: Stories of Painful Self-realization 6. The Comic Journey: Stories of Self-Discovery 7. Purpose as Plot Structure: A Definition of the Concepts Peace and Justice within Narrative Precision