NCA Chicago 2004

About the Peace and Conflict Communication Division

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Purpose Statement: The purpose of this Division shall be to promote teaching, research and practice by communication scholars and professional practitioners toward the understanding, management, and resolution of disputes at all levels: intrapersonal, interpersonal, and intergroup in personal, community, national, and international contexts. Mission Statement: The mission of the Peace and Conflict Communication Division is to promote, through scholarship, a greater understanding of how communication may be used for the advancement of peace. Specifically, the Division is interested in, but not limited to, examination of conflict resolution methods such as mediation, negotiation, and other communicative practices to bring an understanding between conflicting parties with the end goal of peaceful conflict resolution. The Division seeks input from all interested practitioners and scholars within NCA and will consider for scheduling at NCA conventions studies of communication and peace using any methodology. (Bruce McKinney, October, 2001)

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August 2004