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Exploring the Cultural, Moral, and Technological Dimensions of Conflict

Khaled Al-Kassimi (American University in the Emirates, UAE), Tuba Işık (Istanbul Medipol University, Turkey), Muhammad Fahim (Monash University, Australia), and Başak Gezmen (Istanbul Medipol University, Turkey)
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Release Date: October, 2025 | Copyright: © 2026 | Pages: 444
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ISBN13: 9798337375892
ISBN13 Softcover: 9798337375908
EISBN13: 9798337375915
DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3373-7589-2

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Conflict shapes societies, ideologies, and innovations across time. Whether driven by cultural differences, moral dilemmas, or technological advancements, conflict reveals the underlying values and tensions within civilizations. Exploring the cultural, moral, and technological dimensions of conflict builds understanding of how people define identity, justice, and progress. This multifaceted approach examines the causes and consequences of conflict and the ways in which it influences ethical decision-making, societal transformation, and the evolution of warfare and communication in the modern world.

Exploring the Cultural, Moral, and Technological Dimensions of Conflict explores how cultural values, moral beliefs, and technological advancements shape the causes and outcomes of conflict. It examines their influence on human behavior, ethical choices, and the evolution of confrontation. This book covers topics such as nationalism, social media, and conflict narratives, and is a useful resource for government officials, policymakers, sociologists, media and communications professionals, academicians, researchers, and scientists.

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The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

  • Art and Literature
  • Conflict Narratives
  • Crisis Response and Management
  • Culture and Population Studies
  • Cybertechnology
  • Digital Media
  • Ethics and Law
  • Gender Studies
  • Media and Communications
  • Morality
  • Nationalism
  • Social Media
  • War and Conflict

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Khaled Al-Kassimi is an Associate Professor of Political Sociology, International Relations, and Legal Jurisprudent Philosophy at the American University in the Emirates. His teaching expertise includes subjects navigating International Law and International Relations, Geopolitics and Geography, International Relations and Diplomacy, and finally, Security Studies and Development Studies. He holds a Philosophical Doctorate in Political Science (Major I: International Relations; Major II: Political Philosophy) from the faculty of Social Sciences at McMaster University (2016-2020), a Masters’ degree in International Relations from McMaster University (2015-2016), and an Honours Bachelor of Arts with a combined specialist in History and Political Science from the University of Toronto (2009-2013). His academic research navigates topics linked to jurisprudence and theology, geopolitics and political philosophy with a particular interest in epistemological differences pertaining to different theological and philosophical sources (i.e., revealed Law and rationalized law). Such eclectic disciplinary navigation has permitted Khaled Al-Kassimi to serve as an editor for multiple books, and publish peer-reviewed articles in a variety of journals interested in law and philosophy, history and political science with an eye appreciating the civilizational heritage accentuating the cultural reconnaissance between the Orient and Occident. His most recent monograph published by Routledge entitled “International Law, Necropolitics, and Arab Lives - The Legalization of Creative Chaos in Arabia” argues that International Relations and International Law continue to be accented by epistemic violence by naturalizing a separation between law and morality. The main question accenting the monograph is: what does such positivist juridical ethos make possible when considering that both disciplines reify a secular (immanent) ontology?. The monograph emphasizes that positivist jurisprudence (re)-conquered Arabia by subjugating Arab life to the power of death (i.e., necropower) using extrajudicial techniques of violence seeking the implementation of a “New Middle East” that is no longer “resistant to Latin-European modernity”, but amenable to such exclusionary telos. The monograph goes beyond the limited remonstration asserting that the problématique with both disciplines is that they are primarily “Eurocentric”. Rather, the epistemic inquiry uncovers that legalizing necropower is necessary for the temporal coherence of secular-modernity since a humanitarian logic masks sovereignty inherently being necropolitical by categorizing Arab-Islamic epistemology as an internal-external enemy from which national(ist) citizenship must be defended. This creates a sense of danger around which to unite “modern” epistemology whilst reinforcing the purity of a particular ontology at the expense of banning and de-humanizing a supposed impure Arab world-view. He is in the process of completing his second single-authored monograph critiquing the field of International Relations as both, mainstream and critical approaches to security, foreign relations, and development, remain secular in their proposed worldviews and epistemic alternatives. The tentative title of the book is “Blood, International Relations, and Secularity – Judeo-Christian Political-Theology and the Ishmaelite as (a Necessary) Outcast” ...
Tuba Işık is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Communication, Istanbul Medipol University, where she also serves as the Director of the Career Center. She completed her undergraduate studies in Radio, Cinema, and Television at Atatürk University, followed by a master’s degree in Journalism from the same institution. She earned her Ph.D. in Journalism from the Institute of Social Sciences at Istanbul University. In 2020, she joined Ağrı İbrahim Çeçen University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Public Relations and Advertising. The following year, in 2021, she was awarded the title of Associate Professor. Her research interests include digital communication, communication studies, health communication, and digital health communication. In 2024, she held a visiting faculty position at Selçuk University. She is proficient in English and Turkish.
Başak Gezmen is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Communication, Istanbul Medipol University. She previously served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Journalism at Istanbul Aydın University and as a faculty member at both Istanbul Commerce University and Istanbul Arel University. She completed her undergraduate studies in Journalism at the Faculty of Communication, Marmara University, in 1999. In 2002, she earned her master’s degree from Marmara University, Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Journalism, with a thesis on the effects of technological developments on journalism. She later completed her Ph.D. in the same department with a dissertation on children’s magazines and media in Turkey. Prof. Gezmen is the author of one book and has contributed numerous book chapters. She has also published extensively in refereed journals and has presented papers at national and international symposiums and congresses in both Turkish and English.

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