Conflict prevention
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Definition/Description
Short description of the section
Indicators
Methods/Methodologies/Tools to use
Gives short introduction (one/two sentences) into different methodologies/methods/tools (used for, limitations etc.) – and links to a more comprehensive description
Practitioners’ tips
recommendations of which methods proved to be efficient, too time-consuming, experiences from different cultural settings etc.
Examples
Becker, J., Contributions by the Media to Crisis Prevention and Conflict Settlement, [Electronic Version], Conflict & Communication online (2004), Vol. 3, No. 1&2
The media neither start wars, nor can they end them. But communicating media can have an increasingly positive influence on processes of social communication and societal change. The influence of the media is always multi-causal and long-lasting. In terms of crisis prevention and the treatment of conflicts, media influence requires institutional backing in the form of a controversial public presence, the opportunity for variety and pluralism, media rights as a condition of the rule of law and journalistic ethics codices as a regulating factor for responsible activities on an individual level.
http://www.cco.regener-online.de/2004/pdf_2004/becker.pdf
Bratic, V. & Schirch, L., Why and when to use the media for conflict prevention and peacebuilding, European Centre for Conflict Prevention (2007), Den Haag
The following paper - the sixth in a series of studies into issues related to conflict prevention and peacebuilding - therefore sets out how a civil society organization working in the field of conflict prevention and peacebuilding should deal and interact with the media.
James, B., Media, conflict prevention and reconstruction, UNESCO (2004), Paris
Effective and democratic media are an essential part of any culture of prevention, as well as being indispensable in societies in transition towards peace and democracy. At any stage of a conflict, lack of information can make people restless, desperate, and easy to manipulate.
Manoff, R., "Role Plays". Potential media roles in conflict prevention and management, Track Two (1998), Vol.7, No.4
Robert Karl Manoff is Director of the Center for War, Peace and the News Media. This article has been adapted from a paper delivered at The Hirondelle Foundation's conference on the media and conflict in 1998. The article discusses potential media roles in the prevention and management of conflict.
http://www.ccr.uct.ac.za/archive/two/7_4/p11_roleplays.html
Loewenberg, S., Bonde, B. N., Whitehouse, M., Media in conflict prevention and peace building strategies, Deutsche Welle Media Services GmbH (2007), Bonn
Conference documentation, reports of 850 delegates from 90 European, Asian, African and Middle Eastern countries. Media plays a cultural role in the processes of peacebuilding in a post-conflict situation. The paper offers a complex of questions and media’s actions in the context of conflict or fragile state seen from the point of the native journalists and experts actively working in this field.
http://www.dw-gmf.de/download/Media_In_Conflict_Prevention.pdf
Schmidt, C., Solbach, W., & Von Boemcken, M., Media in peacebuilding and conflict prevention : conference documentation, Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum (2008), Bonn
Conference documentation. Contains reports of 850 delegates from 90 European, Asian, African and Middle Eastern countries. Media plays a cultural role in the processes of peacebuilding in a post-conflict situation. The paper offers a complex of questions and media’s actions in the context of conflict or fragile state seen from the point of the native journalists and experts actively working in this field.
http://www.dw-gmf.de/download/GMF-Doku-2008-Web_12MB.pdf
Resources
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Training resources:
Discussion forums and specialised platforms:
Organisations and institutions engaged in this area:
- Media Progress [1]
For further study:
- Bonde, B. N., UN-led strategies for media and communications in conflict prevention and peace building, Danish Institute for International Studies (2006), Copenhagen (see conference brief [2])
- Chukwuemeka Okere, L., The Role of African Media in Early Warning and Conflict Prevention Systems, The Round table, Carfax Pub. Co (1996), Vol.338, pp.173
- Geelen, M., The role of the media in conflict prevention, conflict management and peace building an overview of theory and practice Netherlands Association of Journalists (2002)
- Gowing, N., Media coverage : help or hindrance in conflict prevention? Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict (1997), Washington, DC
- Himelfarb, S., Chabalowski, M., Media, conflict prevention and peacebuilding mapping the edges, United States Institute of Peace (2008) (see also: brief [3])
- Newman, L., Preventing conflicts and human rights abuses: what can the media do?, Peace Research Abstracts (1999), Vol.36, No.6
- Touri, M., News blogs: strengthening democracy through conflict prevention, Aslib Proceedings (2009), Vol.61, No.2, pp.170-184
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