Active looking
Images in peace mediation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13046643 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rasmus Bellmer (0000-0001-6350-2292, Tampere University), Frank Möller (0000-0003-1964-4669, Tampere University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 136-151 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Peacebuilding (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2164-7259 • E-ISSN: 2164-7267 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/21647259.2022.2152971 |
| OpenAlex | W4311841785 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
In this article, we explore the potential contributions of visual images to international peace mediation. Inspired by the concept of active listening and narrative approaches to mediation, we advance the notion of active looking in peace mediation: a visual-discursive mediation practice that includes images as a mode of expression and contribution to meaning-making processes, capitalising on specific characteristics of images, especially as regards their relationship to verbal language, which we explore in terms of ineffability, approximation, elusiveness, and commonalities. We propose active looking as both an approach to conflict mediation and a mediation skill derived from an understanding of conflict transformation that – instead of aiming at problem-solving based on sameness – appreciates openness, difference, and ambiguity. Ideally, through image-generated evolution, re-complexification, and re-authoring of narratives, the conflict parties, by means of active looking skills embodied in and promoted by the mediator, move closer to a conflict’s transformation
Active listening · Ambiguity · Cognitive psychology · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Linguistics · Mediation · Narrative · Openness to experience · Social science · Sociology · Communication · Digital Storytelling and Education · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |