Person to Person Peacebuilding, Intercultural Communication and English Language Teaching

Amy Jo Minett is Associate Professor of English and Graduate TESOL at Salem State University, USA. Her research interests include peacebuilding through language teaching, English language education in conflict countries, and the role of ELT in building open societies.Sarah E. Dietrich is Assistant Professor in the English Department and MA TESOL program, Southeast Missouri State University, USA. Her research interests include eService-Learning, teacher development, and culturally responsive teaching.Didem Ekici is ESOL Faculty and Department Co-chair at the College of Alameda and teaches at the University of San Francisco and Golden Gate University, USA. Her research interests include intercultural competence development and culturally responsive teaching, distance education, virtual exchange, teacher education, and equity and the digital divide.

This timely and highly relevant volume illuminates voices of those at the intersections of language learning, intercultural communication and person to person peacebuilding. Featuring Afghan voices, this volume serves as an invaluable resource for educators who see education as a means to peacebuilding, particularly in the ‘virtual intercultural borderlands’ of online exchange.

• Preface and Dedication: With and WithoutChapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Understandings of Peacebuilding and Intercultural Communication     Chapter 3: Context(s)     Chapter 4: Person to Person Peacebuilding at the Personal LevelChapter 5: The Relational Dimension of Person to Person Peacebuilding  Chapter 6: Person to Person Peacebuilding at the Structural LevelChapter 7: Fostering Person to Person Peacebuilding While Teaching Language and Intercultural Communication            Afterword: August 2021References