Transrational Resonances , 1st ed. 2018 Echoes to the Many Peaces

The articles collected here respond with innovative strength and vigor to the worldwide need for further research on peace and for practical approaches to conflict transformation. This book therefore equally appeals to scholars, peacebuilders and practitioners as well as artists engaged in conflict transformation.

Chapter 1. On Resonances: An Introduction to Transrational Peaces and Elicitive Conflict Work

Josefina Echavarría Alvarez and Norbert Koppensteiner

Part I. Resonances to Wolfgang Dietrich and his Work

Chapter 2. Could You do What You are Writing About?

Armin Staffler

Chapter 3. Cooperative Resonance: An Interview with Major General Herbert Bauer and Franz Jenewein

Daniela Ingruber

Part II. Scholarly Resonances

Chapter 4. Transrational Methods of Peace Research: The Researcher as (Re)Source

Norbert Koppensteiner

Chapter 5. Why a Feminist Standpoint Epistemology is Necessary in Times of Hegemonic Masculinity – Thoughts on Intersectionality and Transrationality

Annette Weber

Chapter 6. Sexuality, Security and Migration: Seeking Elicitive Clues in the Analysis of the 2015 Cologne’s Sylvesternacht

Josefina Echavarría Alvarez

Chapter 7. Inter-Actions that Matter: An Arendtian Approach to Elicitive Conflict Transformation

Andreas Oberprantacher

Chapter 8. Transrational Peaces and Pax Technologica: Considerations on Artificial Intelligence, Peace Studies and Systemic Constellations

Albrecht Mahr

Chapter 9. On the Flesh of Violence: The (Phenomenological) Dilemma in Researching Violence and its Transrational Transformation

Rebecca Gulowski

Chapter 10. Transrational Peaces Extended to Economics

Shawn Bryant

Part III. Practitioners’ Resonances

Chapter 11. Communal Integration: A Perspective of Elicitive Conflict Work

Birgit Allerstorfer

Chapter 12. Self-Exploration through Holotropic Breathwork

Sylvester Walch

Chapter 13. Elephant Watering (W)hole: Transrational Learning Spaces

Jennifer Marie Murphy

Chapter 14. Positive Peace in Schools

Hilary Cremin and Tim Archer

Chapter 15. Iustitia’s Healing: On the Potential of Synergies between Law and Elicitive Conflict Transformation

Florencia Benitez-Schaefer

Chapter 16. A Rationale for the Transrational in Peace and Development Cooperation

Fabian Mayr

Part IV. Artistic Resonances

Chapter 17. Theatre for Living: Searching for (and Sometimes Finding) Many Peaces in the Transrational Darkness

David Diamond

Chapter 18. Performative Meeting for Peace: The Way of the Energetic Voice and Vocal Action

Nigar Hasib and Shamal Amin

Chapter 19. Shamanic Resonances: An Interview with Peter Kirschner and Hanna Raab

Josefina Echavarría Alvarez is Senior Lecturer at the Unit for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Innsbruck and invited international lecturer. Her research and peacebuilding work focus on migration and (in)security in Europe, as well as peace and reconciliation initiatives in Colombia. 

Daniela Ingruber is an Austrian war researcher and lecturer, journalist and editor, also working as a consultant for film productions and film festivals. Her main fields of research are conflict transformation through art, ethical journalism, war photography, storytelling as well as social hubs and their role in peaceful resistance.

Norbert Koppensteiner is a Senior Lecturer at the Unit for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Innsbruck, and program coordinator of the MA Program for Peace Studies at the same university. He is the author of the book ‘The Art of the Transpersonal Self’ and currently researches on transrational methods of peace research and on approaches to elicitive facilitation. 

Offers alternative theoretical, artistic and practitioners' perspectives as well as examples on the application of breath-, movement- and voice-oriented methods of conflict transformation

Fills an important research gap about a variety of cultural contexts where the elicitive conflict toolbox is engaged through a multiplicity of relevant themes and styles