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Why and When to Use the Media for Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding

Vladimir Bratic, Lisa Schirch

Den Haag: European Centre for Conflict Prevention (ECCP); Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (2007), 30 pp.

"The media’s impact on the escalation of conflict is more widely recognized than the media’s impact on peacebuilding. Yet it is not uncommon to hear experts pronounce that the media’s impact on peacebuilding must be significant given its powerful impact on conflict. However, this simple relati ... more

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Radios Africaines pour la paix

Yannik De Mol

Search for Common Ground (2007), 127 pp.

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Gute Medien - böser Krieg? Medien am schmalen Grat zwischen Cheerleadern des Militärs und Friedensjournalismus

Thomas Roithner et al.

Wien; Berlin: Lit; Österreichisches Studienzentrum für Frieden und Konfliktforschung (2007), 176 pp.

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Peace Journalism: The State of the Art

Dov Shinar, Wilhelm Kempf (ed.)

Berlin: Regener (2007), 241 pp.

"The book is a critical exploration of peace journalism, a mode of coverage that proposes alternatives to the preference of war in the media professional culture. Originally published electronically, and now offered in print, it features information, ideas and methods on peace journalism to be used ... more

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Engendering Peace Journalism, Keeping Communities Whole: A Guide on Gender-Sensitive Peace and Conflict Reportage

Lina Sagaral Reyes, Raijeli Nicole (eds.)

Manila: Isis International; Mindanaw Women Writers (Min-WoW) (2007), 47 pp.

"Isis International-Manila welcomed the suggestion of Min-WoW to collaborate on a project on engendered peace journalism and community radio. Thus, the project, “Women Making Airwaves for Peace,” was conceptualized based on the media experiences of Min-WoW and Isis’ experience on community rad ... more

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Peace Journalism Applied: An Assessment of Media Coverage of the Conflict in Northern Uganda

Linda Nassanga Goretti

Conflict & Communication Online, volume 6, issue 2 (2007), 9 pp.

"The paper explores how peace journalism has been applied in Uganda basing on an assessment of findings from a survey on the media coverage of the conflict in northern Uganda. The paper analyses the findings from the print media coverage of 2 newspapers for 3 years that were used as sample. The anal ... ysis considered several quantitative and qualitative variables including: frequency, type of stories (news vs non-news), authors of stories (journalists vs non-journalists), placement/prominence of story, balance in the story, information sources, language and tone, focus, peace initiatives and use of photographs. The introduction gives an overview of the concept of conflict and why we continue to have conflicts in society. The paper posits that since all people in society cannot have the same definition of a situation all the time, especially regarding the distribution of power and resources, disagreements and conflicts arise, which in extreme cases escalate into armed conflicts or wars. The paper looks at the major causes of conflicts in Africa and gives a background to the conflict/war in Northern Uganda, where the fighting has been going on since 1986, when President Museveni took over power. A synopsis of the findings showed that most of the coverage on the war was done by journalists in the form of news stories, with a few feature articles. This implies that journalists are largely responsible for what people get to learn about the war. Depending on the way journalists report about the conflict, people's perceptions will be influenced accordingly. The analysis showed that the government paper was largely biased towards government and confrontational in its reports, while the private paper used a more conciliatory tone and was more balanced by using various sources for their stories. There was fair coverage of peace initiatives, although this focused most on government efforts. An evaluation of the coverage showed that this had its strengths and weaknesses. While the media had helped in raising awareness about the war, there was self-censorship amongst the journalists, partly due to the Anti-terrorism Act, which makes it a capital offence if a journalist gives information that can aid terrorism. The paper looks at some obstacles that prevent journalists from giving objective reports when reporting on conflicts/wars. The paper concludes with some recommendations on how peace journalism can be consciously applied to contribute more meaningfully to the peace building process in Northern Uganda." (Abstract) more

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Seminario internacional de comunicación y paz

Amparo Cadavid Bringe, Mauricio Beltrán Quintero (ed.)

Bogota: Fundación Colombia Multicolor; Unión Europea; Acción Social; Pontificia Universidad Javeriana; British Council Colombia (2007), 247 pp.

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Peace Journalism as a Normative Theory: Premises and Obstacles

Suleyman Irvan

Global Media Journal - Mediterranean Edition, volume 1, issue 2 (2006), pp. 34-39

"I will define peace journalism as a normative theory claiming that the media ought to play a positive role in promoting peace. The basic premise of peace journalism is that if contemporary media tend to play a negative role in terms of increasing the tensions between and among the sides of a confli ... more

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Friedensjournalismus: Einblicke und Ausblicke

Martina Kunze

Deutscher Entwicklungsdienst (DED) (2006), 103 pp.

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Fighting Words: How Arab and American Journalists Can Break Through to Better Coverage

Lisa Schnellinger, Mohannad Khatib

Washington, DC: International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) (2006), 131 pp.

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Espacios de intermediación en tiempos de conflicto: Medios de comunicación en Bolivia

Mauricio Gutiérrez, Eduardo Subieta

La Paz: Centro de Investigación y Promoción del Campesinado (CIPCA); Catholic Relief Services (CRS) (2006), 81 pp.

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Bosnia's Open Broadcast Network: A Brief But Illustrative Foray Into Peace Journalism

Vladimir Bratic, Susan Dente Ross, Hyeonjin Kang-Graham

Global Media Journal - American Edition, volume 7, issue 13 (2006), [30 pp.]

"This study engages in the examination of the role of journalism in a time of violent conflict and explores the discourse that has come to be known under the umbrella term “peace journalism.” Through a case study of the Open Broadcast Network (OBN) coverage of the Bosnian conflict, the study ana ... more

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Mediatized Conflict: Developments in Media and Conflict Studies
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Simon Cottle

Maidenhead: Open University Press (2006), x, 217 pp.

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Peace Journalism I: Theoretical Approaches = Friedensjournalismus I: Theoretische Zugänge

Conflict & Communication Online, volume 5, issue 2 (2006), 104 pp.

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Promoting Independent Media: Strategies for Democracy Assistance
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Krishna Kumar

Boulder, Colo.; London: Rienner (2006), 189 pp.

"This book represents one step in explaining international efforts to promote independent media. It attempts to examine the nature and significance of media assistance, discussing the evolution of the field, the focus of various programming approaches, and the possible impact of such efforts. It pre ... sents case studies of media assistance programs in different countries. The book concludes with a set of recommendations for expanding and deepening media assistance for the international community. This book project grew out of a multi-country study that I directed in 2002–2004 to examine media assistance programs funded by the US Agency for International Development. The overall purpose of the study was to assess the nature and effectiveness of USAID programs and make policy and programmatic recommendations for the future. In writing this book I have mostly drawn from the massive information collected during two years of research and analysis. The book is based primarily on three sources of information. First are reviews of literature covering scholarly writings, project and program documents, and articles in popular magazines and newspapers on media assistance. Such reviews were country specific as well as global in nature. Because the academic literature is extremely limited and media assistance is hardly covered in magazines and newspapers except in high-profile cases such as Bosnia and Serbia, reviews largely relied on program documentation. I had the unique advantage of perusing thousands of documents that are not available to the public. Although mostly descriptive and often self-serving, they identified critical gaps in our knowledge and illuminated the challenges and achievements of international media endeavors. Second, my colleagues and I undertook extensive fieldwork in seven countries/regions—Afghanistan, Bosnia, Central America, Indonesia, Russia, Serbia, and Sierra Leone. In each of these cases, research teams conducted extensive discussions with international donor agencies, officials of host countries, project staff and contractors, and local media experts and journalists. Every possible effort was made to interview all those experts and managers who had intimate knowledge of the ongoing media assistance programs. Teams also examined locally available documents and reports and used translators to translate documents into English when necessary. In the absence of hard quantitative data, they largely relied on available documentation, indepth interviews, and their own knowledge of the media scene for their findings and conclusions. Finally, I organized a series of meetings in Washington, D.C., to discuss the findings of the country studies and explore new directions for media assistance programs. Such meetings helped to identify many problems and challenges facing media assistance programs and helped in formulating a set of recommendation for policymakers." (Chapter 1, page 10-11) more

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UN-Led Strategies for Media and Communications in Conflict Prevention and Peace Building

Bent Nørby Bonde

Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies (2006), 8 pp.

"Media have contributed significantly to the escalation of violent conflicts, but also have a strong potential for contributing to peace building and conflict transformation. The sooner the first steps are taken towards changing the existing media the cheaper and more efficient this process will bec ... more

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Reporting Justice: A Handbook on Covering War Crimes Courts

Stacy Sullivan, Janet Anderson

Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR) (2006), 64 pp.

"[This handbook] introduces you to the various kinds of courts in which war crimes are tried; gives an outline of the history of the courts; explains the body of international law under which the courts operate; details how war crimes trials work; and explores the actual process of reporting both in ... more

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Keine Zeit, kein Geld, kein Interesse...? Konstruktive Konfliktberichterstattung zwischen Anspruch und medialer Wirklichkeit

Burkhard Bläsi

Berlin: Regener (2006), 325 pp.

"Journalisten, die über Konflikte und Kriege berichten, sehen sich von jeher vielfältigen Anforderungen ausgesetzt. Damit nur schwer zu vereinbaren scheinen die in jüngerer Zeit entwickelten Modelle einer konstruktiven Konfliktberichterstattung, die zu Prozessen der Deeskalation und der friedlich ... more

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Covering Islam: Challenges and Opportunities for Media in the Global Village

Syed Farid Alatas (ed.)

Singapore: Centre for Research on Islamic and Malay Affairs (RIMA); Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2005), 181 pp.

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Media for a Culture of Peace

Brussels: Signis (2005), 35 pp.

Mediatized Conflict: Developments in Media and Conflict Studies Deep Insights

Promoting Independent Media: Strategies for Democracy Assistance Deep Insights

Mediatized Conflict: Developments in Media and Conflict Studies
Deep Insights

Promoting Independent Media: Strategies for Democracy Assistance
Deep Insights