"In exploring the dynamics and narratives of peace in journalism, this book explains the media's impact on the transformation of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. It discusses the perspectives of peace activists who have been involved in grassroots action since the first Intifada, and
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examines how their relation with the mainstream media has evolved over time. It compares these views with those of professional journalists who have been covering the conflict, and their sense of the difficulties inherent in practicing a different kind of journalism. The interviews included in this study contribute towards the model of Peace Journalism, with a view to facilitating its successful application to this conflict. Highlighting both the obstacles and opportunities associated with this endeavour, Tiripelli offers suggestions for the strategic application of this model." (www.springer.com)
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"Cette publication présente l’histoire de 18 journalistes centrafricains, tous victimes de diverses menaces, bastonnades et intimidations, pendant qu’ils effectuaient leur travail de reportage sur le conflit qui a déchiré leur pays entre 2012 et 2014 [...] Les témoignages dans cette publicat
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ion illustrent le fait que beaucoup devrait être fait dans le sens d’équiper les journalistes locaux avec les outils pour mieux gérer les situations de conflits, aussi bien en ce qui concerne leur sécurité physique personnelle, que la manière de rendre compte des histoires relatives aux conflits. Bien que ces outils ne soient pas suffisants pour atténuer les dangers que courent les journalistes en couvrant les conflits, ils pourraient, à certains égards, les aider à s’en sortir av ant, pendant et après les conflits." (Avant-propos, page 6-7)
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"Es hilft nichts, sich eine bessere Welt zu wünschen, in der alle Beteiligten eines Konflikts gewaltlos dazu gebracht werden können, einen friedlichen Ausgleich für ihre Interessen zu finden: Das Konzept steht und fällt mit der Friedensfähigkeit und Kompromissbereitschaft der Beteiligten. Daher
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ist eine differenzierte Betrachtung des Friedensjournalismus geboten: Viele seiner Forderungen führen zu einer Verbesserung im Sinne eines qualitätsorientierten, differenzierten und an einem tieferen Verständnis orientierten Journalismus. Das sagt auch sein Vordenker Galtung. Als globales Konzept zur Regelung aller Konflikte beruht der Friedensjournalismus aber auf einer Illusion, die vor allem für die Opfer von Gewalt in einem Konflikt gefährliche Folgen haben kann." (Fazit, Seite 91)
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"If the focus of peace journalism is to press for quality journalism during conflict reporting which will ultimately contribute to peace, then the findings of this study show that the available reporting on the Balochistan conflict passes the litmus test. The coverage is pro-people, and the reporter
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s are aware of their responsibility to society. Despite acute security problems, the journalists have been able to bring the conflict onto the public agenda. A majority of Pakistanis now agree that the people of Balochistan have been maltreated by both politicians and the army, and the time has come to grant them the rights for which they have been fighting for decades, sacrificed thousands of lives and endured great suffering." (Abstract)
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"One of the biggest hurdles facing the field of peace journalism (PJ) is its vague definition. This paper proposes defining PJ as it operates on a spectrum, from passive to active. Through a review of extant PJ literature, this paper synthesizes current theory into an overarching, explicit concept,
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and calls for it to be further adopted and expanded. To conclude it considers potential advantages, drawbacks, and critiques of its proposal." (Abstract)
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"Gender and Conflict Sensitive Journalism can be described as a tool for journalists and others who strive to understand conflicts in a larger context. It has been developed from peace and conflict analyses which indicate that the choices journalists make when they are reporting about conflicts affe
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ct not only our understanding of the conflict – but also what we perceive to be the solution. This, in turn, affects the conflict and its outcome. It challenges the image of journalists as neutral and objective purveyors of information, and describes media’s relationship with society as symbiotic." (Page 3)
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"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
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l and the Palestinians, respectively. Before and after viewing, they completed a cognitive questionnaire and two tests designed to disclose changes in their emotional state. During the viewing, they also underwent measurement of blood volume pulse, from which their heart rate variability (HRV) was calculated. HRV measures effects on the autonomic nervous system caused by changes in breathing patterns as subjects respond to stimuli with empathic concern. Since these patterns are regulated by the vagal nerve, HRV readings can therefore be interpreted as an indicator of vagal tone, which Porges et al. propose as an ‘autonomic correlate of emotion’. In this study, vagal tone decreased from baseline through both WJ stories, but showed a slightly smaller decrease during the PJ asylum story and then a significant increase during the PJ Israel–Palestine story. These readings correlated with questionnaire results showing greater hope and empathy among PJ viewers and increased anger and distress among WJ viewers, of the Israel–Palestine story." (Abstract)
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"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
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unication and the media are widely recognized as powerful tools in conflicts and war. Although there has been significant academic attention on the relationship between the media, conflict and war, academic efforts to understand this relationship have tended to focus primarily on the links between communication and conflict, rather than on communication and peace. In order to make sense of peace it is essential to look at communication in its many facets, mediated or not. This is true within many of the diverse strands that make up the field of communication and peace, but it is also true in the sense that a holistic and interdisciplinary approach is missing from the literature. This book addresses this widely acknowledged lacuna by providing an interdisciplinary perspective on the field, bringing together relevant, but so far largely isolated, streams of research. In doing so, it aims to provide a platform for further reflection of the meaning of, and requirements for, peace in our contemporary world with a focus on de-escalation, conflict transformation, reconciliation and processes of peacebuilding - as opposed to conflict escalation or crisis intervention." (Publisher description)
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"The peace journalism (PJ) field now has an appreciable amount of published material to show for its first decade of serious operation, in research, teaching and training alike. It amounts to a serious project to reform professional education programmes in journalism. But so far, the proposed remedi
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es are more individual projects than coordinated and organized reforms; they are scattered geographically and do not have a global scope. This article discusses the need for a joint approach together with universities, colleges, training institutes and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and inter-governmental organizations, if PJ is to contribute to establishing journalism as an important factor in international norm-setting and to raise the profession’s ethical standards with regard to violent conflicts. To enable this, further conceptual development is also necessary. A combination of Johan Galtung’s PJ approach, with insights from critical discourse analysis (CDA), offers a way of managing the demand for contextual reflexivity that has been raised in the debate about PJ. CDA offers an opportunity to address war and peace issues in a more comprehensive manner, integrating analysis of the propaganda discourses during peacetime, underestimated by Galtung in his model." (Abstract)
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"El manual que aquí se presenta tiene como propósito arrojar luces y facilitar herramientas, a partir de la experiencia práctica de periodistas y comunicadores, sobre los desafíos de los medios de comunicación en el posconflicto, basándose en una encuesta realizada a nivel nacional con distint
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os profesionales de la comunicación. En particular, el manual se centra en el reportaje y el periodismo de datos como modos de reconstruir y narrar historias de paz. Además de ser una guía didáctica para la labor periodística, consideramos que este manual constituye un hito en el camino de promover la (re)construcción plural y responsable de la memoria histórica, y de un ejercicio clave para el posconflicto: el reconocimiento y la confrontación con el pasado, como punto de partida para la reconciliación del país." (Presentación, página 6)
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"This toolbox should provide some insights and tools for journalists reporting on events in other countries, but it has primarily been developed for journalists reporting on extremely violent conflicts in their own communities. It hopes to provide these journalists with insights they can draw on in
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making a constructive contribution to the eventual peaceful management and resolution of conflicts through their reporting. In doing so it recognizes that many professional journalists have found that an approach to conflict coverage known as conflict sensitive journalism (CSJ) (see Box One: Conflict Sensitive Journalism a Brief Background) has enhanced their ability to cover conflict. Many have also noted that the CSJ approach has raised their commitment to good journalism by helping them recognize how they can make a positive contribution toward conflict transformation in their own communities. In essence, conflict sensitive journalism involves journalists developing a more sophisticated understanding of conflict and applying this knowledge in all aspects of their reporting - from story conceptualization, to interviewing, to the final moments of production. This toolbox draws on the CSJ approach in exploring how even in the face of atrocities, journalists can effectively tell a story and thereby contribute constructively to peacebuilding and conflict transformation." (Introduction, page 3-4)
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"In the following short essays, journalists from Palestine and Israel were asked to reflect on how local media covers the conflict and other news. These pieces have been organized here into four broad sections. The first chapter explores different ways in which the news is skewed, especially Israeli
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and Palestinian coverage of the Arab uprisings. The second chapter looks at the tension between being a patriot and a good journalist. The third section describes some of the day-to-day restrictions that hinder reporting and build frustration. In the last section, the authors suggest ways that Israeli and Palestinian journalists can minimize the impact that these hindrances, both psychological and physical, have on their work." (Introduction)
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"This manual is the result of Frequencies of the Past, a conflict sensitive journalism project by forumZFD. From 2011 to 2013, journalists from different media, ethnic backgrounds and from various regions of Kosovo have joined the project to explore the opportunities to cover sensitive issues relate
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d to Dealing with the Past in Kosovo." (Publisher website)
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"Este documento contiene las memorias de los talleres de entrenamiento del Primer Ciclo de formación sobre datos, técnicas de investigación y narrativas de conflicto y paz orientado por la organización Consejo de Redacción –CdR– y su iniciativa www.plataformadeperiodismo.com. En primer luga
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r hay un acercamiento al significado de periodismo y paz, un gran reto de los reporteros de Colombia en tiempos donde se avizora un acuerdo de paz entre el Gobierno Nacional y las guerrillas FARC y el ELN. Como insumo valioso se entrega una guía para reportear y escribir una historia, las herramientas del narrador y técnicas de investigación periodística. De igual manera se pueden consultar recomendaciones para la cobertura responsable en zonas de conflicto, y grandes reflexiones de maestros del periodismo que aportan a la construcción de buenas historias. Finalmente se comparten 10 bases de datos públicas como herramientas de consulta para hacerle seguimiento al conflicto y posconflicto en el país." (Presentación)
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"A review of the literature indicates a plethora of studies examining the coverage of Middle Eastern conflicts, but hardly any research has been explicitly framed as being developed from a peace/war journalism perspective. The current study, therefore, represents a substantive effort to remedy this
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deficiency. It examines the extent to which the 2010 Mavi Marmara incident is framed based on Johan Galtung’s classification of peace/war journalism. A content analysis of 156 online stories from Haaretz, The Guardian, and The New York Times suggests that overall differences exist among the war/peace narratives published in the three newspapers. The validity of few peace indicators used also was noted. The authors strongly advocate for the need to redefine indicators for peace journalism to reflect the concept as distinct from objective, and factual reporting." (Abstract)
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"Using the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a natural laboratory for studying possibilities and limitations of constructive conflict coverage, the present book combines a longitudinal retrospective look at the coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with experimental research on audience reactio
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ns and theoretical questions of conflict, war and peace coverage.
The editors aimed at utilizing these materials to learn about changes in media framing and representation of issues, actors, and leaders; to focus on problems of war coverage and peace journalism, such as the persistence of a war orientation in media culture and performance, and the extent to which the media have “matured” so as to change this normative orientation in favor of an increased contribution to peacemaking and peacekeeping; and to study and criticize peace journalism thought, research and action after some twenty years since its emergence." (Publisher description)
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