Peace Journalism is a form of journalism that frames stories in a way that encourages conflict analysis and a non-violent response.

According to its leading theoreticians and exponents, Jake Lynch and Annabel McGoldrick, peace journalism is when editors and reporters make choices – about what to report, and how to report it – that create opportunities for society at large to consider and to value non-violent responses to conflict.

Peace journalism aims to shed light on structural and cultural causes of violence, as they bear upon the lives of people in a conflict arena, as part of the explanation for violence. It aims to frame conflicts as consisting of many parties, pursuing many goals, rather than a simple dichotomy. An explicit aim of peace journalism is to promote peace initiatives from whatever quarter, and to allow the reader to distinguish between stated positions and real goals.

Peace journalism is a response to traditional war journalism and reportage; practitioners believe that the traditional approach emphasises the current conflict while ignoring the causes or outcomes.

A similar approach is found in Preventive journalism, which extends the principles to social, economic, environmental or institutional problems.

[edit] See also

• Institute for War and Peace Reporting
• Alfred Hermann Fried, First explicit Peace Journalist, Germany, Austria, Switzerland

[edit] External links

• The International, a publication that encompasses peace journalism standards.
• Peace journalism page of Sydney University's Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies[1]
• Transcend Media Service[2]
• What is Peace Journalism?
• Using Conflict Analysis in Reporting
• - Peace Journalism from Austria based in Vienna

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