This inaugural volume in the Peter Lang Conflict and Peace series brings together works that richly depict the tensions between the promise and reality of applying communication principles and theories to conflict transformation and peacebuilding around the world and in the United States. Each chapter provides concrete examples of the doing of engaged scholarship in this context. Chapter contributors explain how their on-the-ground work has contributed to theorizing in communication and beyond as well as to conflict transformation and peacebuilding practice. Importantly, they also unearth the challenges in designing and implementing techniques and practices. As a collection, this edited volume underscores the communicative nature of conflict transformation and peacebuilding in particular, and engaged scholarship, in general. The collection also reveals tensions in doing engaged scholarship that are applicable to other contexts beyond conflict transformation and peacebuilding.

Acknowledgements - Peter M. Kellett/Stacey L. Connaughton/George Cheney: Introduction: The Promise and Reality of Engaged Scholarship and Practice - Jennifer K. Ptacek/Daniel Kamal/Meghana Rawat/Jasmine R. Linabary/Stacey L. Connaughton: Doing Locally Led Peacebuilding: An Examination of the Relationally Attentive Approach to Conducting Engaged Scholarship in Liberia, West Africa - Laura W.¿Black: Catalyzing Deliberation: How Engaged Scholarship Helped Surface Community Values and Transform Conflict in Local School Facilities Planning - John Mwangi Githigaro: Rethinking the Local Turn in Peacebuilding: Re(visiting) Preventative Stances in Violent Extremism: The Case of Likoni Subcounty, South Coast, Kenya - Gilbert T. Zvaita/Ibrahim¿Yusuf: Devising More Effective Peacebuilding Tools for Africa - Vincent R. Waldron/Cindy Becker/Dayna Kloeber/Douglas Kelley/ Jonathan Pettigrew/Rob Razzante/Katrina Hanna/Vonn Magnin/Tonia Smith: Disrupting Cycles of Revenge and Boosting Community Resilience: A Forgiveness and Reconciliation Program at Boys and Girls Clubs - Gregory D. Paul: Cultivating a Space for Restorative Justice in Kansas: Exploring Opportunities for Restorative Justice through Dialogic Deliberation - John Drew/Devin Thornburg: Fraught Times: Engaging Systemic Issues of Hate Online - Gwen A. Hullman: Practicing Mediation as an Engaged Scholar: A Personal Memoir - Benjamin J.¿Broome: Walking the Challenging Path of Peacebuilding: Reflections of an Engaged Scholar - Robert J. Razzante/Katrina N. Hanna/ Jennifer A.¿Linde: Dialogic Prudence: Promoting Transformative Conflict through Civil Dialogue® - Alex J. Patti/ Bruce Case/Christopher V. Jordan: Teaching Conflict Transformation in the Basic Communication Course: Narrative Reflections by Graduate Teaching Instructors - George Cheney/Stacey L. Connaughton/Peter M. Kellett: Conclusion: Response and Prologue to Further Work - About the Editors - About the Contributors - Index.