Building logos via communication media : facilitating peace through reconciliation

Hochheimer, John L. (author)

Developing the means for reconciliation is a necessary context within which peace may be facilitated in post-traumatic societies. This development becomes even more critical among peoples who need to reconcile difference following the affliction of, and the suffering from, great pain and loss. Walking the paths toward peace requires, among other things, that interested parties, assisted by communication facilitators, create and utilise development of participatory communications media, journalistic practices and pedagogy of intercultural reconciliation in which all actors believe that theyhave meaningful voices and interests. The more we communicate with one another through respectful dialogue, the more we can discover the universalityof our own desires; we are, in essence, one in this Spirit. Communication projects in support of reconciliation efforts must go in two directions in order to be most effective: without and within. Reconciliation between individuals and groups (without) can only succeed the degree to which individuals and groups also embrace reconciliation among themselves (within).

• Language: English
• Work type: Not categorized
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Year: 2007
• Number of pages: Str. 55-72
• Numbering: Vol. 14, no. 4
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-75651
• UDC: 316.77
• ISSN on article: 1318-3222
• COBISS.SI-ID: 26840925
• Publication date in RUL: 21.12.2015

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Javnost = The public
• Shortened title: Javnost
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis, European Institute for Communication and Culture
• ISSN: 1318-3222
• COBISS.SI-ID: 40119808

Secondary language

• Language: Unknown

Abstract

Oblikovanje sredstev sprave je nujni kontekst za doseganje miru v post-travmatskih družbah. To je še zlasti pomembno za ljudstva, pri katerih sprava sledi povzročanju in trpljenju hudih bolečin in izgub. Prizadevanje za doseganje miru med drugim zahteva, da prizadete strani s pomočjo komunikacijskih posredovalcev oblikujejo in uporabljajo participativne komunikacijske medije, novinarske prakse in pedagogiko medkulturne sprave, kjer vsi akterji verjamejo, da imajo pomemben glas in interes. Da bi bili lahko učinkoviti, morajo iti komunikacijski projekti v podporo spravnih prizadevanj v dveh smereh: sprava med posamezniki in skupinami (navzven) je lahko uspešna le toliko, kolikor posamezniki in skupine dosežejo spravo navznoter.