JRN 490 Peace Journalism Lesson 5: Media and Conflict

By Metin Ersoy

Lesson 5: Media and Conflict

Lesson 5: Media and Conflict Peace Journalism is based on the proposition

that the choices journalists make while covering conflicts tend inescapably either to expand or contract the space available for society at large to imagine and work towards peaceful outcomes to conflicts.

Peace Journalism can help society at large think and speak about non-violence and creativity when dealing with conflicts.

Lesson 5: Media and Conflict How conflict influences the media versus how

media can influence conflict? How different is to cover a war being a

foreigner or being a local (same for NGOs, governments, etc)?

Lesson 5: Media and Conflict The classical journalistic idea that ‘peace is no

news’. Why violence and conflict are news, and

peace is not? Is it possible to be fair and independent

covering your ‘own’ conflict? Shall media coverage and journalists inform or

promote peace?