Peacebuilding
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Definition/Description
In the vital stages between open conflict and negotiated settlement information and media are fashionable tools to enhance the populations capacity to reconcile and overcome conflict. This section studies the effectiveness and exemplifies approaches.
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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
Bajraktari, Y., & Hsu, E., Developing Media in Stabilization and Reconstruction Operations, Stabilization and Reconstruction Series, United States Institute of Peace (2007)
This report identifies important tasks that interveners should consider in fashioning a strategy for independent, pluralistic, and sustainable media. Drawing on best practices from past and present postwar media development efforts, the report presents a strategy that encompasses the three phases of an intervention: predeployment, deployment, and exit.
http://www.usip.org/files/resources/srs7.pdf
Bratic, V., Revisiting Media in Conflict: In Search of Peacebuilding Media, [Conference Papers], International Communication Association (2008), pp. 1-29
In Search of Peacebuilding Media Most studies that explore the relationship between wars and media focus on the role of propaganda for war promotion. This study attempts to document the efforts of positive engagement of mass media (peacebuilding media) in peace processes. This study documents media projects from 18 countries, 13 conflict sites and generates a total of about forty peacebuilding media efforts.
http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p230764_index.html
Brusset, Emery and Ralf Otto, Evaluation of Nashe Maalo: Design, Impelementation and Outcomes Social Transformation through the Media. On behalf of Search for Common Ground, Channel Research 23 December 2004
Nashe Maalo, produced by SFCG-Macedonia (“Our Neighbourhood”) is a television series aimed at promoting inter-cultural understanding among children with a view to conflict transformation. This evaluation focused on assessing the achievement of the intended objectives of Nashe Maalo as well as determining the breadth of listernship. In addition, the evaluation sought to ascertain the contribution of NM to the wider Macedonia situation, despite this not being part of the original project expectations.
http://www.sfcg.org/sfcg/evaluations/nash2004.pdf
De Luce, Dan, Assessment of USAID Media Assistance in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1996 – 2002, PPC Evaluation Working Paper no 6 September 2003
As part of its global assessment of USAID’s media assistance program, the Bureau for Policy and Program Coordination (PPC) commissioned a study of U.S. media assistance efforts in Bosnia-Herzegovina from 1996 to 2002. This report analyzes media assistance strategies and methods since the end of the Bosnian conflict, including the policies of other donor governments and organizations. It assesses the effectiveness of U.S. media aid, the impact of the assistance on Bosnian society, and concludes with lessons from the Bosnian experience that may be pertinent to future media development efforts.
http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/papers/pmt/exhibits/1481/PNACR756.pdf
Himelfarb, Sheldon and Megan Chablowski, Media, Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding: mapping the edges, United States Institute of Peace (October 2008)
On June 25-26, 2008, USIP’s Media Conflict and Peacebuilding Center of Innovation and the Alliance for Peacebuilding convened top media and conflict experts to review a comprehensive strategic framework to aid in the design of practical peacebuilding media. The framework was developed and presented by Vlado Bratic, Ian Larsen and Lisa Schirch in collaboration with USIP. While the framework still requires further development, the experts agreed on many of its propositions. This USIPeace Briefing contains their significant points of agreement but also raises points of debate or ambiguity, all of which are critical considerations when planning a media project.
http://www.usip.org/files/resources/USIP_1008_2.PDF
Howard, R., The Media's Role in War and Peace-building, [Conference Paper] Geneva Centre for the Demacratic Control of Armed Forces
The news media is also capable of causing considerable damage when no-one is intentionally wielding it at all. Under ideal conditions the news media is supposed to have a mind of its own and operate according to professional codes of conduct. But its culture of professional and financial instincts can drive the media to practices which obsess with violence and influence opinion in socially destabilizing ways. Under less than ideal conditions, media bias, inaccuracy and sensationalism can generate xenophobia and violent conflict.
http://www.dcaf.ch/civsoc/ev_budapest_030206_Howard.pdf
Kumar, Krishna, USAIDS’s Media Assistance. Policy and Programmatic Lessons, PPC Evaluation Working Paper no. 16 January 2004
During July 2002–June 2003, USAID’s Bureau for Policy and Program Coordination undertook a thorough assessment of the Agency’s media assistance programs. It organized a series of workshops on media assistance programs, conducted fieldwork in Bosnia, Central America, Russia, and Serbia, and undertook an intensive literature review. This paper presents a set of policy and programmatic findings and recommendations that have emerged out of the assessment. It also proposes a framework that indicates what type of programmatic interventions can be carried out in different political systems.
http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNACU777.pdf
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
Media in Sudan at a crossroads [Electronic Version], International Media Support, Article 19 (2007)
This assessment aim is to establish a comprehensive overview of the media situation in all relevant sectors, as well as developing an overview of support to the sectors and the strategies behind this support from agencies for international cooperation.
http://www.article19.org/pdfs/publications/sudan-media-assessment.pdf
The Role of Media in Peace-Building and Reconciliation, International Media Support (2004), Copenhagen
Final Report. The Crisis Prevention and Recovery Unit (CPRU) of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Indonesia has been working in North Maluku and Maluku over the last three years with a focus on multi-sectoral recovery initiatives to complement the efforts of the Government of Indonesia to support post-conflict recovery, long-term peace building and sustainable development. This thematic assessment covers the issue of the role of media in conflict and peace-building.
SFCG, Search for Common Ground – Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Mid-Term Evaluation “Supporting Congo’s Transition Towards Sustainable Peace” Program 2006
Meyers, Mary and Judy El-Bushra, Mid-Term Evaluation of Search for Common Ground (Centre Lokolé) “Supporting Congo’s Transition Towards Sustainable Peace” Programme in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Final Report (22nd March 2006)
This mid-term output-to-purpose review of Search for Common Ground’s (Centre Lokolé - CL) “Supporting Congo’s Transition towards Sustainable Peace” programme was undertaken to provide an objective assessment of the programme’s progress against its aims, and its impact to date. CL produces radio programs as well as other media (such as comic books) to inform Congolese about the key elements of the ongoing transition, particularly those subject to manipulation, divisionism or conflict.
http://www.sfcg.org/sfcg/evaluations/drc_2006_keyf_en.pdf (summary)
http://www.sfcg.org/sfcg/evaluations/drc2006.pdf (final report)
Resources
Related web portals:
Discussion forums and specialised platforms:
Organisations and institutions engaged in this area:
- Geneva Centre for the Demacratic Control of Armed Forces [1]
- International Media Support [2]
- Institut Panos [3]
- United States Institute of Peace [4]
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 [5])
- Bratic, V., Communication for Peace Development: A New Perspective, Journal of Development Communication (2006), Vol.17, No.1, pp.28-37.
- Bratic, V., In search of peace media examining the role of media in peace developments of the post-Cold War conflicts, Ohio University (2005), Ohio (see also: abstract [6])
- Himelfarb, S., Media and peacebuilding: the new army stability doctrine and media sector development, Media, War & Conflict (2009), Vol.2, No.1, pp.7-23
- Himelfarb, S., Chabalowski, M., Media, conflict prevention and peacebuilding mapping the edges, United States Institute of Peace (2008) (see also: brief [7])
- Howard, R. Rolt, F. van de Veen, H. Verhoeven. J. (Ed.), The Power of the media: A handbook for peacebuilders (2003)
- Institut Panos, Afrique centrale - médias et conflits, vecteurs de guerre ou acteurs de paix, Institut Panos (2005)
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