Peace Journalism

Peace Journalism

This research group focuses on questions of peace journalism and its various forms. Starting from what constitutes peace journalism and how it can work, a central concern of this research group is to conceptualize peace journalism from an elicitive approach towards conflict transformation. From this perspective journalists are never objective observers but always actively engaged parties in the conflict. Hence, the way stories are produced as well as narratives and images are chosen and published have direct impact on ongoing conflict dynamics. For this reason this research group focuses on elicitive peace journalism by tackling ethical and methodological questions of journalism, such as power relations, subject and object positions, the connectivity of image and reality and the question of telling truth. Thus, a primary aim of this group is to  contribute additional perspectives to the debate on Johan Galtung’s proposal of peace journalism by grounding its work on peace thinker and practitioner John Paul Lederach.

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