scholarly journals Elicitive Conflict Transformation and New Media: In Search for a Common Ground

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-14
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Suetzl
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
New Media ◽  
Conflict Management ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Conflict Transformation ◽  
Important Resource ◽  
The Common ◽  
Communicative Processes

Advocates of elicitive conflict transformation (ECT) maintain that the parties to a conflict are the most important resource in efforts to render that conflict less violent. According to them, the transformation of the conflict is immanent to the conflict itself. The claim of ECT theorists is that classical conflict resolution has mostly aimed at overcoming a conflict by means of neutral mediation, while conflict transformation is not primarily concerned with terminating a conflict and considers the conflict worker as part of the conflict system. Although ECT is a communication-based model of conflict management and relies on human media, its media-theoretical aspects are not made explicit, raising the question of what role technological media play in the communicative processes that make up ECT techniques. Through an examination of the claimed differences between conflict resolution and conflict transformation, and focusing on the common roots of new media and the elicitive model in systems and cybernetic theory, this paper asks whether any peacebuilding potential of new media could be found in a specific anti-propagandistic quality of distributed technological media. It concludes by looking at any such potential in social media.

scholarly journals Conflict resolution: Understanding concepts and issues in conflict prevention, management and transformation

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 431-439 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adeola Adams ◽  
Chux Gervase Iwu
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Conflict Management ◽  
General Framework ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Conflict Transformation ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Conflict Prevention ◽  
Social Reconstruction ◽  
Per Se

Conflicts are inevitable. They can be prevented on some occasions, managed on others, but resolved only if the term conflict is taken to mean the satisfaction of apparent demands rather than the total eradication of underlying sentiments. Within the context of South Africa and Nigeria, two nations characterised by a mix of reputations, the understanding of the concepts of conflict prevention, conflict management and conflict transformation is pertinent to courting peace and harmony among the different groups of people. For one, conflict resolution opportunities restore our humanness and avowed commitment to the larger society. This is premised against the backdrop that conflict is both an intrinsic and inevitable part of human existence involving the pursuit of incompatible interests and goals by parties. This paper attempts the development of a general framework for understanding the different concepts of conflict. The paper concludes by admitting that conflict resolution has less to do with removing conflict per se, but evolving an appropriate option for nipping it in the bud before it degenerates into a crisis. Conflict resolution therefore becomes the harbinger of our social reconstruction and the criterion for measuring the sanity and conformity of social systems

Social Project Management?

2016 ◽  
pp. 2067-2071
Author(s):  
Gilbert Silvius
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Project Management ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Future Outlook ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Common ◽  
Social Project

This conclusion aims to reflect upon and summarize the lessons that may be learned from this book. In three concise paragraphs, it discusses the common ground amongst the different contributions, the ‘takeaways' from the book and the concept of ‘social project management' as the future outlook on social media in project management.

scholarly journals Strategic Engagement and Religious Peace-building: a case study of religious peace work in Jerusalem

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-82
Author(s):  
Yvonne Wang
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Parallel Process ◽  
Conflict Transformation ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
Common Goal ◽  
Single Strategy ◽  
Vital Component ◽  
The Common

This article argues for the importance of a dialogue for strategic engagement and presents an analytical approach to it with reference to three different peacebuilding strategies in terms of conflict resolution theories. As a case study example, the article presents three religious organizations engaged in peacebuilding in Jerusalem and explores the different strategies utilized by them. The article further argues that each single strategy possesses a danger of going wrong, at the same time as each single strategy is a vital component as part of a parallel process along with the others – to achieve the common goal of conflict transformation.

scholarly journals Between opportunities and threats – an analysis of Brazilian Landless Workers’ movement experiences with new media technologies

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paola Madrid Sartoretto
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
Main Concern ◽  
Clear Separation ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Landless Workers Movement ◽  
And Control ◽  
Communicative Processes

Recent discussions and research about the uses of digital social media platforms by social movements and protest organizations have raised questions about threats and challenges represented by these technologies. There is also a debate on whether digital social media platforms can contribute to establish and strengthen long-standing oppositional groups and structural change. In this context, this article analyses how the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (MST) experiences and views the use of digital social media platforms in its communicative processes. Based on interviews and observations, the article shows how MST militants present ambivalent views towards platforms such as Facebook and Twitter and towards the dynamics of digital communication. Conclusions point that the main concern is threat to the organic collective character of the movement posed by individualistic digital social media platforms. Different from contemporary protest organisations, MST sees a clear separation between the movement and its media. The goal is to appropriate of and control media technologies, which brings many difficulties when dealing with digital social media platforms.

scholarly journals Manajemen Konflik Pemerintah Kota Bogor Antara Forum Muslim Bogor Dengan Masyarakat Tionghoa (Studi Kasus: Perayaan Cap Go Meh 2019)

ijd-demos ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Deliya Gustiani
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Conflict Management ◽  
Research Method ◽  
City Government ◽  
Chinese Community ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Critical System ◽  
The People

Abstract This study describes the conflict management carried out by the Bogor City Government over the conflicts that occurred between the Forum Muslim Bogor and the Chinese Community. In this conflict, it was found that there was intolerance that occurred in the people of Bogor City ahead of the Cap Go Meh celebration in 2019. Where the case of intolerance was carried out by issuing a circular issued by the Forum Muslim Bogor through social media. The letter was circulated very widely which contained an appeal to the Bogor City Government not to facilitate the Cap Go Meh/Bogor Street Festival celebration and called for the Muslim community not to participate in the event because it was considered to damage the faith. In this study, the focus will be on conflict resolution efforts carried out by the Bogor City Government using the theory of Conflict Management and Critical System Heuristics. The research method used is descriptive qualitative research method. Therefore, this study will look at how the conflict resolution carried out by the Bogor City Government towards the conflict. Keywords: conflict resolution, bogor city government, cap go meh.     Abstrak Penelitian ini menjelaskan mengenai manajemen konflik yang dilakukan oleh Pemerintah Kota Bogor atas konflik yang terjadi antara Forum Muslim Bogor dengan Masyarakat Tionghoa. Dalam konflik ini ditemukan adanya intoleransi yang terjadi dimasyarakat Kota Bogor menjelang perayaan Cap Go Meh tahun 2019. Dimana kasus intoleransi tersebut dilakukan dengan cara mengeluarkan surat edaran yang dilakukan oleh Forum Muslim Bogor melalui media sosial. Surat tersebut beredar sangat luas yang mana berisikan mengenai seruan kepada Pemerintah Kota Bogor agar tidak memfasilitasi Perayaan Cap Go Meh/Bogor Street Festival dan menyerukan agar masyarakat muslim tidak berpartisipasi dalam acara tersebut karena dinilai dapat merusak akidah. Dalam penelitian ini akan lebih fokus terhadap upaya resolusi konflik yang dilakukan  oleh Pemeritah Kota Bogor dengan menggunakan teori Manajemen Konflik dan Critical System Heuristic. Adapun metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah metode penelitian deskriptif kualitatif. Penelitian ini akan melihat bagaimana resolusi konflik yang dilakukan Pemerintah Kota Bogor terhadap konflik tersebut. Kata Kunci: resolusi konflik, pemerintah kota bogor, cap go meh. 

scholarly journals Mediality: the cultural-symbolic sphere of social practice

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas A. Bauer
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Cultural Performance ◽  
Logical Theory ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
Practical Complexity ◽  
Communication Culture

Abstract At least since the practical complexity of media landscapes is growing, the theoretical complexity of media communication has to be widened (horizon and frame) and deepened (focus) — especially when fulfilling the mission and the quality of science: generating complexity on a level of logical theory towards a subject that is not an object by itself but a culturally programmed metaphor of description: communication, culture, society etc. The complexity of communication, media or society is not a character of those constructs themselves but a complexity of thinking, in practice hopefully reduced, in theory hopefully produced. Facing communication (more) as a cultural performance of humanness and of social practice and facing media (more hermeneutically than technically) demands to conceptualize those constructs as models of knowledge, as culturally programs in search of mindful meaning and meaningful relevance of social /societal life. Therefore, there is need of a shifting paradigm from functional, objectivist concepts to hermeneutically open concepts — not only, but also to generate a wider frame of analysis and interpretation of social and cultural change referred through the mediality character of communication and society. So called social media are not new media but show the possibility as well the challenge and chance of change of media orders. Of course, that demands other (new) competence concepts of social practice.

scholarly journals To Manage, Resolve or Transform? The Way Forward for the EU in the Middle East Peace Process

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anders Persson
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Conflict Management ◽  
Peace Process ◽  
Conflict Transformation ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
New Strategy ◽  
Just Peace ◽  
The Eu ◽  
The Way

This article argues that 40 years of EU peacebuilding in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have produced few significant results with a possible exception to this being the parameters provided by the EU for a just peace in the conflict. In any case, it is difficult to characterise these past four decades of EU involvement as anything other than a failure. Consequently, the main argument of this article is that a new strategy for the EU’s peacebuilding in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is urgently needed. As both the approaches of conflict management and conflict resolution have been tried and have failed, this article argues that the EU has far better potential in transforming the Israeli-Palestinian conflict than in managing or resolving it. An EU strategy more clearly based on the principles of conflict transformation is therefore the best way forward for the EU in the Middle East peace process.

Discussion on the Micro-Blog Information Resources in Disseminating the Local Image

2014 ◽  
Vol 989-994 ◽  
pp. 4577-4580
Author(s):  
Zi Xin Luo ◽  
Si Yi Li
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Information Resources ◽  
Common Pattern ◽  
Image Communication ◽  
Operation Pattern ◽  
The Common ◽  
Mode Of Transmission ◽  
Local Image

This article studies the characteristics of agenda setting and mode of transmission, which are presented in the micro-blog information resources in spreading the local image. Discovers the operation pattern, at the same time, tries to seek the common pattern of local image communication in new media times through micro blogging, which on behalf of the local social media, and then use the micro-blog information resources to shape and optimize the local image.

scholarly journals McDonaldisasi Melalui Praktik Jurnalisme Hibrida di Kompasiana

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Formas Juitan Lase
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Fast Food ◽  
Complete Picture ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Fast Food Restaurants

Abstract: This article discusses the development of new media jurnalistic in Indonesia that seem to mix online media and social media as a practise of hybrid jurnalism. Hybrid jurnalism gives a complete picture of how media business is currently runned by the logic of Mcdonaldization as the principle of fast food restaurants. Consequently, it generates the homogenization of content, decreases the quality of jurnalism and misuses the concept of citizen journalism.Abstrak: Artikel ini membahas perkembangan jurnalistik pada media baru di Indonesia yang kini membaurkan media online dengan media sosial dalam praktik jurnalisme hibrida. Praktik jurnalisme hibrida memberikan gambaran utuh bagaimana bisnis media saat ini dikelola berdasarkan logika Mcdonaldisasi, yang merupakan prinsip dasar restoran cepat saji. Konsekuensinya, jurnalisme media baru di Indonesia dipenuhi oleh homogenisasi konten, penurunan kualitas jurnalistik, dan penyalahgunaan konsep jurnalisme warga.

scholarly journals Mechanisms for enhancing the use of social media for knowledge sharing by the construction professionals

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramtin Etemadi ◽  
Carol K.H. Hon ◽  
Karen Manley ◽  
Glen Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Shared Knowledge ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Common ◽  
Use Of Social Media

Purpose This paper aims to investigate the mechanisms for transforming construction professionals’ intentions into use of social media (SM) for knowledge sharing (KS). The objectives are to: identify the common types of SM platforms used by the construction professionals for KS; identify the key problems influencing transformation of the construction professionals’ intentions into use of SM for KS; identify the factors mitigating the problems; and provide recommendations for enhancing construction professionals’ use of SM for KS. Design/methodology/approach The data was collected through semi-structured interviews with Australian construction professionals and analysed using grounded theory (GT). The outcomes of the analyses formed a framework for the enhancement of SM use for KS. Findings The findings show that private SM followed by enterprise SM are more appealing to the construction professionals for KS compared to public SM; and uncertainties about users’ privacy/confidentiality and the quality of the shared knowledge adversely affect the transformation of the construction professionals’ intentions into use of SM for KS. Three types of trust are identified as the mitigators of the identified problems. A framework is proffered to enhance SM use for KS by construction professionals. Originality/value This paper contributes to the construction literature by developing a GT to explain the factors which impact the transformation of the construction professionals’ intentions into use of SM for KS. Additionally, the practical contribution of this study is the provision of framework constituting recommendations for the enhancement of SM use for KS.

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