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Dov Shinar This article explores
(1) the cultural nature of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict; (2) the "intractability"
of cultural conflicts; (3) conflict management models: reconciliation/"end-of-conflict"
versus "conflict transformation" and their relation to cultural
conflict; (4) the serious consequences of the wrong matching of models
and conflicts, such as using the reconciliation model in cultural conflict;
(5) the changing role of the media in international relations, and their
contribution to the "crisis of expectations" that came to fruition
in September 2000, with the eruption of the Intifada; (6) the possibility
of the media contributing to peace processes; and (7) implications of
the media adoption of the conflict transformation model. |
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On the author: Dov Shinar, Professor and Chair, Department of Communication Studies; Director, The Burda Center for Innovative Communications, Ben Gurion University, Israel; Professor Emeritus, Concordia University, Montreal. His fields of interest include the socio-cultural dimensions of communication technologies; international communications; media in war and peace; media and development, emphasizing collective identities, institutional change, media education, and minority/community media. Address: Department of Communication Studies, Ben Gurion University of the Negev (www.burdacenter.bgu.ac.il), P.O. Box 653, Beer Sheva 84105. e-mail: shinard@bgumail.bgu.ac.il |
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