Galtung's article about peace journalism

This is original article of Johan Galtung about peace journalism!

1.What is peace Journalism?

Imagine a blackout on everything we associate with medical practice; never to be reported in the media. Disease, however, is to be reported fully, in gruesome detail, particularly when elite persons are struck. The process of disease is seen as natural, as a fight between the human body and whatever is the pathogenic factor, a micro-organism, trauma, stress and strain. Sometimes one side wins, sometimes the other. It is like a game, even like a sports game. Fair play means to give either side a fair chance, not interfering with the ways of nature where the stronger eventually wins. The task of journalism is to report this struggle objectively, hoping that our side, the body, wins.
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Using Conflict Analysis in Reporting

The traditional response has been to plead, ‘we just report the facts’. In particular journalists in Western, especially Anglophone media generally resist any suggestion that the consequences of specific decisions they make in reporting can be predicted in advance. The logical corollary of this, that such decisions might be made with reference to some sense of responsibility for the consequences, is only permissible in certain tightly circumscribed situations. British newspapers and broadcasters not mentioning the ethnic identity of someone committing a criminal offence, except where it is relevant to the story, is one isolated example.
In general, the belief that journalists ‘just report the facts’ holds sway as a constitutive assumption of the work journalists actually do. But in doing it, many are increasingly struck by the inadequacy of this theory as an explanation for the way really things work.
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The Peace Journalism Option

The Peace Journalism Option represents the findings of the Conflict and Peace Journalism summer school which took place at Taplow Court in Buckinghamshire, UK, over the week of August 25-29 1997. Participants comprised journalists, media academics and students from Europe, Africa, Asia and the U.S. who divided their time between lectures, workshops and debate. The resulting document is a fair representation of the findings but may not represent the whole view of any of the contributors.

* Media coverage is integral to shaping the course of events in war & peace. With technology bringing more rapid and intense coverage, the connection becomes increasingly clear.
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War Journalism and Peace Journalism in TheThe Middle East

World Leaders Plead For Sanity In Mideast Meltdown
Two Israeli soldiers were killed by rampaging youths who broke into the police station where the soldiers were being held after straying into a Palestinian area. Viewers tuned to television news stations watched in horror as a ringleader of the lynch mob appeared at an upstairs window, his hands dripping with blood.


"Peace — Now More Than Ever," Say Arabs And Jews As Death Toll Inches Up
Middle East peace campaigners redoubled their calls for dialogue last night after violence in the occupied territories caused widespread destruction to property and claimed two more lives, bringing to 89 the number of people killed in the present round of troubles.
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Peace Journalism - How to Do It?

I found this useful article about understanding of conflict and peace, and peace journalism as well.
The article is written by "Annabel McGoldrick" and "Jake Lynch" that they have experience in some wars; because they were reporter. I've seen many articles from them in the internet about peace journalism.

Basic Definition
Peace Journalism (PJ) is a broader, fairer and more accurate way of framing stories, drawing on the insights of conflict analysis and transformation.
The PJ approach provides a new road map tracing the connections between journalists, their sources, the stories they cover and the consequences of their reporting the ethics of journalistic intervention.
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I don't know...

I finish my courses and exams today, maybe for ever; I don't know…

After 16 year I finish my courses,

I don't know why I want to cry? Really, Why?

Do you know?

I didn't ever think my least exam would be sociology of advertising and propaganda,

Oh my dear teacher, Mr. Pakdehi was cool and said us:" don't worry and just write!"

Unfortunately in Iran, In M.A stage lecturers have to give an examination.

But, all of us know, it's not important! Because class papers are more important!

Well, these days I'm upset and spend bad times,

Maybe because of finished courses

Maybe because of my friend's father...

These days I even doubt on my thesis that it would be peace journalism

Ahoy…Milad what do you do?

Where're you?

I don't know

…

Peace Journalism: a Discussion Paper

by Arielle K. Botter
Traditionally, the Western news media has portrayed itself as a mere purveyor of objective facts: “What do you mean, what should they cover?” responded one member of the public to a researcher’s inquiry, “They have to cover the news. What has happened, what is going on, there is not a lot of deciding to do about it” (quoted in Lynch and McGoldrick 2007:260). Nevertheless, for Johan Galtung, father of the peace journalism movement, a biased ‘war journalism’ has overwhelmed the mass media (2006:1). As an alternative, Galtung in the 1970s proposed ‘peace and conflict journalism,’ or simply ‘peace journalism.
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