Examining the close relationship between principles of deliberative democracy communication
and conflict resolution this book argues that the nature of deliberative processes is
underappreciated for conflict resolution in ethnopolitically divided societies and that the
communicative nature of democratic deliberation is ripe for theoretical and empirical
expansion. The book examines the potential of deliberative democracy to contribute to conflict
resolution including issues of argument deliberation and political communication. Attention
is also paid to the role of media technology and the internet. Offering a fully developed
understanding of democratic communication and the resolution of conflicts this book is
suitable for scholars as well as students in upper division and graduate courses in a range of
areas including communication politics and government sociology and conflict studies.
