Experiencing the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Children, Peace Communication and Socialization
Cambridge University Press, 7/29/2021
EAN 9781108485722, ISBN10: 1108485723
Hardcover, 490 pages, 22.9 x 15.9 x 3.2 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
Over the last eighty years there has been a global rise in 'peace communication' practice, the use of interpersonal and mass communication interventions to mediate between peoples engaged in political conflict. In this study, Yael Warshel assesses Israeli and Palestinian versions of Sesame Street, which targeted negative inter-group attitudes and stereotypes. Merging communication, peace and conflict studies, social psychology, anthropology, political science, education, Middle Eastern and childhood studies, this book provides a template to think about how audiences receive, interpret, use and are influenced by peace communication. By picking apart the text and subtext of the kind of media these specific audiences of children consume, Warshel examines how they interpret peace communication interventions, are socialized into Palestinians, Jewish Israelis and Arab/Palestinian Israelis, the political opinions they express and the violence they reproduce. She questions whether peace communication practices have any relevant structural impact on their audiences, critiques such interventions and offers recommendations for improving future communication interventions into political conflict worldwide.
Introduction
Peace communication and why study Israeli and Palestinian Sesame Street's media intervention model?
Part I. The Production and Encoding of Israeli and Palestinian Sesame Street
Introduction to Part I
Production and encoding methodologies
1. The Israeli-Palestinian ethno-political nationalist conflict, the Arab-Israeli multi-state conflict and Israeli and Palestinian Sesame Street's disengagement with these conflicts
2. The modern world, or interstate, system
3. The encoding process for seasons one and two of Israeli and Palestinian Sesame Street
Part II.  Audience Reception of Israeli and Palestinian Sesame Street
Introduction to Part II
Audience reception methodologies
4. Decodings by Palestinians-in-the-Making
5. Decodings by Jewish Israelis-in-the-Making
6. Decodings by Arab/Palestinian Israelis-in-the-Making
Conclusion to Part II
The utility of the series for all three partners to the conflict?
Part III. Situating the Reception of Israeli and Palestinian Sesame Street in Mundane Intractable Conflict Zone Practices
Introduction to Part III
Context analyses and conflict zones methodologies
7. Pursuing justice
Palestinian children's schematic interpretations of the Israeli army
8. Pursuing security
Jewish Israeli children's schematic interpretations of Palestinian day laborers
9. Pursuing equality
Arab/Palestinian Israeli Children's schematic interpretations of constructs of opposing national and civic identities
Part IV. Conclusions and Recommendations to Improve Peace Communication research, (Evidence-based) Practice, and Conflict Intractability Interpretation
Introduction
The best case
10. Lessons learned and their application to peace communication research, (evidenced-based) practice, and conflict intractability interpretation
11. How to improve potential media effects and impacts–recommendations for peace communication practitioners
12. Follow-up study of tween-age former audience members.