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Responsible Journalism in Conflicted Societies: Trust and Public Service Across New and Old Divides

Jake Lynch, Charis Rice (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2023), xii, 216 pp.

"Applying an inclusive concept of ‘conflicted societies’ that goes beyond those affected by violent conflict to include traditionally ‘stable’ but increasingly polarised democracies, such as the UK and the USA, contributors engage with longstanding questions and new challenges surrounding co ... more

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Peace Journalism Training for Journalists as a Contribution to PVE in the New Afghanistan

Jake Alexander Lynch, Matt Freear

Journalism and Media, volume 5 (2023), pp. 397-411

"This article presents and discusses results from an exercise in comparative content analysis of news articles about issues of conflict produced by Afghan journalists before and after participating in an internationally sponsored training and mentorship programme in Peace Journalism. The programme w ... more

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Why intervention in Afghan media failed to provide support for peace talks

Jake Lynch, Matt Freear

Frontiers in Communication, volume 8, issue 1118776 (2023), 11 pp.

"This article presents and discusses data from two research methods on journalism in Afghanistan before the Taliban takeover of power in August 2021. News reports from the time of the intra-Afghan peace talks in September 2020 were analyzed using the Peace Journalism model. These were found to be pr ... more

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Overcoming the Peace Journalism Paradox: A Case Study in Journalist Training as Media Development Aid

Jake Lynch, Giuliana Tiripelli

Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies, volume 11, issue 2 (2022), pp. 211-226

"Peace journalism (PJ), originally proposed by Johan Galtung as a set of ideational distinctions in representations of conflict, has served as the organizing principle for both scholarly research and practical application. Much of the latter has come through media development aid, generally taking t ... more

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Reporting Human Rights, Conflicts, and Peacebuilding: Critical and Global Perspectives

Ibrahim Seaga Shaw, Senthan Selvarajah (eds.)

Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan (2019), xxi, 280 pp.

"This book focuses on the reporting of human rights in broadly defined times of conflict. It brings together scholarly and professional perspectives on the role of the media in constructing human rights and peacebuilding options in conflict and post-conflict environments, drawing on case studies fro ... more

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Routledge Handbook of Media, Conflict and Security

London; New York: Routledge (2017), xix, 350 pp.

"This handbook links the growing body of media and conflict research with the field of security studies. The academic sub-field of media and conflict has developed and expanded greatly over the past two decades. Operating across a diverse range of academic disciplines, academics are studying the imp ... more

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Audience Responses to Peace Journalism: Merging Results from a Four-Country Research Study

Annabel McGoldrick, Jake Lynch

Journalism Studies, volume 17, issue 5 (2016), pp. 628-646

"This article shows how results were merged from a study conducted in four countries-Australia, the Philippines, South Africa and Mexico-in which differently versioned television news stories about conflict were played to audiences, and their responses gathered through a mix of methods, to yield bot ... more

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Psychophysiological Audience Responses to War Journalism and Peace Journalism

Jake Lynch, Annabel Mc Goldrick, James Heathers

Global Media and Communication, volume 11, issue 3 (2015), pp. 201-217

"This article presents and discusses the results of an experiment in which television viewers were exposed to either a war journalism (WJ) or a peace journalism (PJ) version of two news stories, on Australian government policies towards asylum seekers and US-sponsored ‘peace talks’ between Israe ... more

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Communication and Peace: Mapping an Emerging Field
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Julia Hoffmann, Virgil Hawkins (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2015), xviii, 315 pp.

"This book analyses the use of communication in resolving conflicts, with a focus on de-escalation and processes of peacebuilding and peace formation. From the employment of hate radio in the Rwanda genocide, to the current conflict between Russia and the Ukraine following events in the Crimea, comm ... more

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A Global Standard for Reporting Conflict

Jake Lynch

New York; London: Routledge (2013), x, 193 pp.

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Responses to Peace Journalism

Jake Lynch, Annabel McGoldrick

Journalism, volume 14, issue 8 (2012), pp. 1041-1058

"This article presents and discusses the results of an experiment, which gathered audience responses to television news coded as war journalism and peace journalism respectively, in two countries, Australia and the Philippines. From the peace journalism model, evaluative criteria were first derived ... more

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Human Rights Journalism: Advances in Reporting Distant Humanitarian Interventions

Ibrahim Seaga Shaw

Houndmills, Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xvi, 281 pp.

"Shaw argues that journalism should focus on deconstructing the underlying structural and cultural causes of political violence such as poverty, famine and human trafficking, and play a proactive (preventative), rather than reactive (prescriptive) role in humanitarian intervention." (Publisher descr ... more

Media and Terrorism: Global Perspectives

Des Freedman, Daya Kishan Thussu (eds.)

Los Angeles et al.: Sage (2012), xiii, 322 pp.

"Media and Terrorism brings together leading scholars to explore how the world's media have influenced, and in turn, been influenced by terrorism and the war on terror in the aftermath of 9/11. Accessible and user-friendly with lively and current case studies, it is a perfect student text and is an ... more

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Expanding Peace Journalism: Comparative and Critical Approaches

Jake Lynch, Ibrahim Seaga Shaw, Robert A. Hackett (eds.)

Sydney: Sydney University Press (2011), 389 pp.

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Peace Journalism, War and Conflict Resolution
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Richard Keeble, John Tulloch, Florian Zollmann (eds.)

New York: Peter Lang (2010), xi, 373 pp.

"Peace Journalism, War and Conflict Resolution draws together the work of over twenty leading international writers, journalists, theorists and campaigners in the field of peace journalism. Mainstream media tend to promote the interests of the military and governments in their coverage of warfare. T ... more