Building logos via communication media : facilitating peace through reconciliation

english

2007

volume 14, issue 4

communication    efficiency 

Evropski inštitut za komuniciranje in kulturo - EURICOM
(Obvezni izvod spletne publikacije)

Developing the means for reconciliation is a necessary context within which peace may be facilitated in post-traumatic societies. This development becomes even more critical among peoples who need to reconcile difference following the affliction of, and the suffering from, great pain and loss. Walking the paths toward peace requires, among other things, that interested parties, assisted by communication facilitators, create and utilise development of participatory communications media, journalistic practices and pedagogy of intercultural reconciliation in which all actors believe that theyhave meaningful voices and interests. The more we communicate with one another through respectful dialogue, the more we can discover the universalityof our own desires; we are, in essence, one in this Spirit. Communication projects in support of reconciliation efforts must go in two directions in order to be most effective: without and within. Reconciliation between individuals and groups (without) can only succeed the degree to which individuals and groups also embrace reconciliation among themselves (within).

14.01.2015