Striving for Peace through Personal Narratives of Genocide and War
Striving for Peace through Personal Narratives of Genocide and War
Personal narratives of genocide and intractable war can provide valuable insights around notions of collective identity, perceptions of the 'enemy,' intergenerational coping with massive social trauma, and sustainable peace and reconciliation. Written in an accessible and narrative style, this book demonstrates how the sharing of and listening to personal experiences deepens understandings of the long-term psychosocial impacts of genocide and war on direct victims and their descendants in general, and of the Holocaust and the Jewish–Arab/Palestinian–Israeli context, in particular. It provides a new theoretical model concerning the relationship between different kinds of personal narratives of genocide and war and peacebuilding or peace obstruction. Through its presentation and analysis of personal narratives connected to the Holocaust and the Palestinian–Israeli conflict, it provides a deep exploration into how such narratives have the potential to promote peace and offers concrete ideas for further research of the topic and for peacebuilding on the ground.
- Provides a new theoretical model concerning the relationship between kinds of personal narratives of genocide and war and peacebuilding or peace obstruction
- Brings together a wealth of information on psychosocial conceptualizations of personal narratives of genocide and war, collective identity, coping with trauma, and sustainable peace
- Includes many detailed quotes from different kinds of personal narratives of genocide and war, with a focus on the contexts of the Holocaust and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Product details
February 2025Hardback
9781009313063
236 pages
229 × 152 × 14 mm
0.498kg
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Personal Narratives in the Context of Genocide and War
- 2. Collective Identity, Perceptions of the Enemy, and Personal Narratives
- 3. Coping, or Not, with Genocide and War
- 4. Conceptualizations of Positive Peace and Reconciliation
- 5. Personal Narratives of Genocide and War and Their Connections to Peacebuilding or Peace Obstruction: Our Theoretical Model
- 6. Personal Narratives connected to the Holocaust
- 7. Personal Narratives in the Jewish-Arab and Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Contexts
- 8. Personal Narratives in the Jewish-Jewish Conflict Context
- 9. Personal Narratives of Genocide and Intractable War: Research Implications
- 10. Personal Narratives of Genocide and Intractable War: Concrete Ideas for Peacebuilding and Reconciliation
- References
- Index.
