Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Anabel Ternès -- The Question of Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Our Time: On Communicative and Political Failure in the Face of Rising Right-Wing Authoritarianism / Vladimir Suchan -- A Peaceful Net? Intergroup Contact and Communicative Conflict Resolution of the Israel-Palestine Conflict on Facebook / Michelle Ruesch -- Kosovo’s Challenges to the New International Order / Larisa Mihalcea -- First to Fight, First to Communicate? Instances of Leadership and Communication in the Literature of Operation Iraqi Freedom / Lena-Simone Günther -- Communicating ‘Truth’: Challenging Islamophobia / James Carr -- Picturing the Death of Osama bin Laden: Political Iconoclasm in the Digital Age / David M. Higgins and Marion G. Müller -- Building Reconciliation and Social Cohesion through Cinematic Negotiations of ‘The Stolen Generations’-Issue / Karin Ikas -- Representation of Gender Relations in Cypriot Popular Culture: The Cases of the Cypriot Radio Sketch and Cypriot Lifestyle Magazines / Theodora A. Maniou and Irene Photiou -- A Telling Tale: A Social Identity Perspective on Communication about Errors in Organisations / Annemiek van Os , Dick de Gilder , Cathy van Dyck and Peter Groenewegen -- The Challenges of Online Communication for Business / Anabel Ternès -- Management Techniques of Emotions in Communicative Conflict Reduction / Anna Rostomyan -- Shared Management among Designers and Administrators: How Constructive Quarrels Improve Communication and Decision Making / Michèle Beaudoin -- The Dehumanised Enemy in the Pacific War Narratives of Norman Mailer and James Jones / Fraser D. Mann -- Outrage in Fallujah: Strategies in the Communication of Political Violence / Brendan Riddick -- The Influence of Mass Media on the Course of Contemporary Military Conflicts: A Case Study of the Breakup of Yugoslavia / Małgorzata Smolak.

One cannot not communicate, says one axiom of Paul Watzlawick and emphasizes that everything we do and everything we leave is a message to ones counterpart. Where communication takes place, conflict is close. From minor misunderstandings to war, from communication refusal to communication overload: the combination of communication and conflict has different degrees of development.