TY  - JOUR
AU  - Ivie, Robert L.
JF  - Javnost-The Public
TI  - Finessing the Demonology of War: Toward a Practical Aesthetic of Humanising Dissent
VL  - 14
IS  - 4
PY  - 2007
SN  - 1854-8377
PB  - EURICOM
UR  - https://javnost-thepublic.org/article/2007/4/3/
N2  - This essay examines peace-building communication in an adversarial world by pursuing an unlikely comparison between the crisis-managing discourse of President Kennedy and Chairman Khrushchev in 1962 and the prophetic Christian voice of Jim Wallis’ antiwar dissent since 9/11. It draws from these cases the rudimentary form of a humanising aesthetic, in which political actors – whether resisting the demonology of war as decision makers or dissenters – devise the discursive equivalent of a stereoscopic gaze out of the language of position and vision. This rhetorical exercise in reflexive perspective taking facilitates the perception of a strategic interdependency between antagonists, confounds the projection of evil, and circumvents rituals of redemptive violence.
U1  - Print ISSN: 1318-3222
ER  -