Transforming Conflict and Building Peace

Acknowledgements - Peter M. Kellett/Stacey L. Connaughton/George Cheney: Introduction: The Promise and Reality of Engaged Scholarship and Practice - Jennifer K. Ptacek/Daniel Kamal/Meghana Rawat/Jasmine R. Linabary/Stacey L. Connaughton: Doing Locally Led Peacebuilding: An Examination of the Relationally Attentive Approach to Conducting Engaged Scholarship in Liberia, West Africa - Laura W. Black: Catalyzing Deliberation: How Engaged Scholarship Helped Surface Community Values and Transform Conflict in Local School Facilities Planning - John Mwangi Githigaro: Rethinking the Local Turn in Peacebuilding: Re(visiting) Preventative Stances in Violent Extremism: The Case of Likoni Subcounty, South Coast, Kenya - Gilbert T. Zvaita/Ibrahim Yusuf: Devising More Effective Peacebuilding Tools for Africa - Vincent R. Waldron/Cindy Becker/Dayna Kloeber/Douglas Kelley/ Jonathan Pettigrew/Rob Razzante/Katrina Hanna/Vonn Magnin/Tonia Smith: Disrupting Cycles of Revenge and Boosting Community Resilience: A Forgiveness and Reconciliation Program at Boys and Girls Clubs - Gregory D. Paul: Cultivating a Space for Restorative Justice in Kansas: Exploring Opportunities for Restorative Justice through Dialogic Deliberation - John Drew/Devin Thornburg: Fraught Times: Engaging Systemic Issues of Hate Online - Gwen A. Hullman: Practicing Mediation as an Engaged Scholar: A Personal Memoir - Benjamin J. Broome: Walking the Challenging Path of Peacebuilding: Reflections of an Engaged Scholar - Robert J. Razzante/Katrina N. Hanna/ Jennifer A. Linde: Dialogic Prudence: Promoting Transformative Conflict through Civil Dialogue® - Alex J. Patti/ Bruce Case/Christopher V. Jordan: Teaching Conflict Transformation in the Basic Communication Course: Narrative Reflections by Graduate Teaching Instructors - George Cheney/Stacey L. Connaughton/Peter M. Kellett: Conclusion: Response and Prologue to Further Work - About the Editors - About the Contributors - Index.

PETER M. KELLETT (Ph.D., Southern Illinois University at Carbondale) is Professor of Communication Studies at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His scholarly work focuses on narrative approaches to analyzing and transforming relational conflict to create more just and fair relationships. He is also active in narrative scholarship relating to health communication, as well as disability. STACEY L. CONNAUGHTON (Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin) is Associate Professor in the Brian Lamb School of Communication at Purdue University. Her research examines leadership and identification in geographically distributed contexts, particularly as these issues relate to virtual teams/organizations, political parties, and peacebuilding. Dr. Connaughton is the Director of Discovery Park's Purdue Policy Research Institute (PPRI), and she serves as Director of the Purdue Peace Project (PPP). As PPP Director, Dr. Connaughton led the relationship building, project development, and monitoring and evaluation for locally-led political violence prevention initiatives in Ghana, Liberia, and Nigeria. Dr. Connaughton is the recipient of Purdue's 2017 Faculty Engaged Scholar Award, and Purdue's 2018 Trailblazer Award-an award given to a midcareer tenured faculty member for innovation and impact in research.GEORGE CHENEY (Ph.D., Purdue University) is Professor of Communication at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. His teaching and research interests include identity in organizations, professional ethics, quality of worklife, globalization and localization, alternative ways of organizing, peace, and sustainability. Working solo or collaboratively, he has published ten books and over 100 articles, chapters, and reviews. He has held several administrative positions, including serving as director of Peace and Conflict Studies and the Tannewr Human Rights Center at the University of Utah. Cheney is a committed practitioner of service learning and has served on several