Introduction
Introduction

Summary/Abstract: This special issue of ESSACHESS—Journal of Communication Studies offers rhetorical and/or cultural-critical perspectives on peace, non-violence, and the role of civic discourse in contemporary times. Intended for both academic and civic readership, the issue covers international scholarship that focuses mainly on the last 30 years of communication and rhetorical perspectives on peace-related discourse, including the historic period following 1989 that created a democratization of public discourse throughout the world, yet engaging even more peace and conflict as paradigmatic perspectives on migration, terrorism, communism, and political and social change. Looking at how the complex relationship between the topoi of <peace> and public discourse of the 21st century continues to remain one of the most challenging dimension both for academic readership and for the citizenry of the world, this special issue interpellates (from an Althusserian perspective) areas of communication and discursive studies that highlight distinct and pertinent cultural approaches to peace-related research nowadays. Thus, in order to capture the problematic of peace-related public discourse in the world, as editors, we propose interdisciplinary scholarly contributions that call readership from all discipline such as yet not limited to political communication, rhetorical studies, intercultural and/or international communication, and peace and conflict studies in order to engage with the complex and challenging textures of rhetoric and peace, civic discourse and consensus- building in current times...

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