Experiencing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict : children, peace communication and socialization / Yael Warshel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Warshel, Yael, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sesame Street (Television program).

Arab-Israeli conflict--1993---Peace.

Arab-Israeli conflict.

Peace-building--Israel.

Peace-building.

Palestinian Arabs--Politics and government.

Palestinian Arabs.

Television in education.

Children's television programs--Psychological aspects.

Children's television programs.

Israel--Politics and government--1993-.

Israel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 473 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

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 confli

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Jul 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-108-61943-6

1-108-62186-4

1-108-62271-2

OCLC:

1262371915