Expanding the edges of narrative inquiry : research from the Mauro Institute

This captivating book presents innovative answers to the question: why storytelling? Each chapter represents leading edge narrative research designs from Arthur V. Mauro Institute for Peace and Justice in central Canada, one of the world’s leading academic programs for Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS), and a major contributor to PACS scholarship. The authors are candid and offer inspiration for other scholars seeking groundbreaking ideas for their own research design while offering profound expansions to the current PACS literature. The scholarship reflects a diversity of ideas, passions, approaches, disciplinary roots, and topic areas. Each chapter explores different and critical issues in the field of PACS through various forms of storytelling, while providing recent original research designs for the future development of the field and the education of its practitioners and academics. This volume, co-edited by three of the early graduates of the program, presents and explores a number of these issues across the broad spectrum of Peace and Conflict Studies. Contributors to the book are recognized scholars and practitioners in their respective fields. The book has a wide audience, targeting those particularly interested in tackling and understanding old conflicts in new ways, and for those seeking to learn at the growing edges of PACS, at the undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate levels.

Egerton, Chuck (2020). Being and becoming: a photographic inquiry with Bahá'í men into cultures of peace (the essence of an arts-based doctoral study) in Expanding the edges of narrative inquiry : research from the Mauro Institute. Laura E Reimer, Katerina Standish and Chuck Thiessen (eds.). Lanham, Maryland, Lexington Books, 173-193

Introduction: Why Storytelling?

Chapter 1: Ethnography for Border Justice: Methodological Considerations for Peacebuilding.
Chapter 2: “I Remember Everything:” Anchoring Dialogue in Cultures of Peace.
Chapter 3. Circles Conversation in the Service of Substantive Peace: Restorative Justice, Catholic Social Teaching, and Transformation.
Chapter 4. Conflict Narratives: Using ‘Social Cubism’ to Explore the Social/Cultural Origins of Conflict in Sri Lanka, Bosnia and Northern Ireland
Chapter 5. Hear My Tears: Narratives of War and Resilience by the Women and Children of Congo
Chapter 6. The Meaning of Words: Qualitative Research to Address Social Challenges
Chapter 7. The Power of Found Poetry: Exploring Faith and Community among Canadian Prairie Women
Chapter 8. From Dissertation to the Stage: Reflections on the Use of Theatre as Cultural Work for Social Justice
Chapter 9. Being and Becoming: A Photographic Inquiry with Bahá’í Men into Cultures of Peace: The Essence of an Arts-based Doctoral Study
Chapter 10. A Conflict Transformation Story: Language Learning among Deaf Children
Chapter 11. Storytelling Research For and As Conflict Transformation: Indigenous Canadians Explain Dropping out of School
Chapter 12. Conclusions