Determination, Mediation, Miscommunication: Three Instances in the Struggle for (and Against) Reconciliation

 

 

 

Sponsor:

Peace and Conflict Communication Division

Schedule Information:

Scheduled Time: Sat, Nov 18 - 8:00am - 9:15am  Building/Room: Convention Center / Room 006 D
Title Displayed in Event Calendar: Determination, Mediation, Miscommunication: Three Instances in the Struggle for (and Against) Reconciliation

Session Participants:

Chair: John Hatch (Univ of Dubuque) 

Rhetoric of Irreconcilability: A Critical Inquiry into Public Discourse on the Western Sahara Conflict

*Andrew Smith (Edinboro University), Fadoua Loudiy (Duquesne University)

Discourse Choices: Frames, Shadings, and Revolutions in Reconciling History

*Spoma Jovanovic (University of North Carolina, Greensboro)

Surviving Reconciliation in Post-apartheid South Africa: Narratives of Reconciliation NGO Workers and Apartheid-era Abuse Survivors

*Bryan Urbsaitis (New York University)

Respondent: John Hatch (Univ of Dubuque) 

 

 

 

Abstract:

Reconciliation is a process by which antagonists come to terms with histories of violation based on conflict over incommensurable needs. Conflict resolution strategies vary depending on the case, but peaceful negotiation of meanings and histories, no matter how divisive or lengthy, are considered preferable to renewed hostility. This panel critically examines three histories of violence that have negotiated respective forms of peace and initiated reconciliation processes that perpetuate, or threaten to re-enact, damages and wrongs.