Narratives for Peace and Security

Understanding narratives is critical to overcoming challenges within many sectors, and increasingly leaders from government, business and non-profits are realizing that narratives can be paramount to enduring peace and security. Narratives hold promise as an important means of transforming conflict and achieving more peaceful societies.

Videos:

  1. Tricia DeGennaro Ignite Talk

2. Jeff Kubiak Ignite Talk

3. Scott Thomson Ignite Talk

4. Sara Lind Ignite Talk

5. John DeRosa Ignite Talk

Additional Resources:

  1. Battles Can Be Won With Kinetics, but Wars Are Won With Influence
  2. A Strategic Perspective on “Information Warfare” & “Counter-Propaganda
  3. The Past, Present, and Future of the War for Public Opinion
  4. “Weaponized Narrative: The New Battlespace” White paper for Future of War Conference, 21 March 2017
  5. War Narratives and the American National Will in War
  6. “A Core National Security Interest: Framing Atrocities Prevention,” Politics and Governance 3 (Fall 2015): 26-43
  7. Winning the Ground Battles but Losing the Information War
  8. Now Hear This – Sailing into the Gray Zone
  9. Understanding the Narratives behind the U.S. Health Care Battle
  10. Could a UK Peace Department create a new narrative for global harmony?
  11. From ‘business as usual’ to ‘business for peace’? Unpacking the conflict-sensitivity narrative
  12. Top-down and bottom-up narratives of peace and conflict
  13. Narrative and Peace: a “New Story” to address structural violence

To understand more about the importance of narratives: