By Solon Simmons and Audrey Williams
Power, stories, and the search for justice. These three things shape human life—and human destiny.
Root Narrative Theory helps us understand how we speak about, understand, and struggle for justice through stories, all while navigating abuses of power.
Developed by Solon Simmons, Associate Professor of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at the Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, RNT seeks to provide a narrative theory of conflict that explains the different types of abuses of social power that show up across human society and human history, all in order to understand how interests, values, and emotions intersect in conflicts that arise through the clash of different “root narratives.”
Table of Contents
What Is a “Root Narrative”?
The Securitarian Worldview
The Libertarian Worldview
The Egalitarian Worldview
The Dignitarian Worldview
The Uses of Root Narrative Theory
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