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Over the last eighty years there has been a global rise in 'peace communication' practice, the use of interpersonal and mass communication interventions to mediate between peoples engaged in political conflict. In this study, Yael Warshel assesses Israeli and Palestinian versions of Sesame Street, which targeted negative inter-group attitudes and stereotypes. Merging communication, peace and conflict studies, social psychology, anthropology, political science, education, Middle Eastern and childhood studies, this book provides a template to think about how audiences receive, interpret, use and are influenced by peace communication. By picking apart the text and subtext of the kind of media these specific audiences of children consume, Warshel examines how they interpret peace communication interventions, are socialized into Palestinians, Jewish Israelis and Arab/Palestinian Israelis, the political opinions they express and the violence they reproduce. She questions whether peace communication practices have any relevant structural impact on their audiences, critiques such interventions and offers recommendations for improving future communication interventions into political confli

Arab-Israeli conflict --- Peace-building --- Palestinian Arabs --- Television in education. --- Children's television programs --- Television programs for children --- Television programs --- Educational television broadcasting --- ETV (Educational television) --- Audio-visual education --- Distance education --- Teaching --- Closed-circuit television --- Educational television stations --- Building peace --- Peacebuilding --- Conflict management --- Peace --- Peacekeeping forces --- Arab-Israeli peace process --- Mid-East peace process --- Middle East peace process --- Middle Eastern peace process --- Peace process in the Middle East --- Peace. --- Politics and government. --- Psychological aspects. --- Aids and devices --- Sesame Street (Television program) --- CTW Sesame Street (Television program) --- 123 Sesame Street (Television program) --- 123 Sesame (Television program) --- Sesamstrasse (Television program) --- Reḥov Sumsum (Television program) --- Israel --- Politics and government