Narrating Peace

How to Tell a Conflict Story

Solon Simmons (George Mason University, USA)

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Routledge
09 August 2024

Peace studies & conflict resolution; Armed conflict; Warfare & defence

Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution

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.

By: Solon Simmons (George Mason University USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781032691312
ISBN 10: 103269131X
Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution
Pages: 142
Publication Date: 09 August 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

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).