Teaching English to build peace in a war zone.

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, Vol 28(4), Nov 2022, 575-576; doi:10.1037/pac0000650Reviews the book, Person to Person Peacebuilding, Intercultural Communication and English Language Teaching: Voices from the Virtual Intercultural Borderlands by Amy Jo Minett, Sarah E. Dietrich, and Didem Ekici (2022). This book depicts the conceptual landscape and promise of intercultural communication as it intersects with and is incorporated into person-to-person peacebuilding. It highlights the voices and discourses of participants who met through a service-learning project with a nonprofit organization that promoted peace through education in Afghanistan, primarily through English language tutoring, and who came together in the virtual intercultural borderlands of online exchange. The book is a valuable resource for teachers and teacher educators of language and intercultural communication—as well as for psychologists—particularly those whose concerns are in the affordance of peacebuilding. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research