Peace Pen

potential of peaceful culture

2010-06-21T10:03:00.000-07:00

I have read an article in Handbook of conflict communication, its title: ‘Historical, political, and spiritual factors for conflict: Understand conflict perspectives and communication in the Muslim world, China, Colombia, and South Africa’.*

This article mentioned the core conflict of the Muslim world, China, Colombia, and South Africa and cultural attitude toward constructive conflict resolution. I enjoyed it.

We have not like these articles in Iran and we did not essay and study about our conflict core in our culture. I think our culture has good potentials for peace and conflict management and we should concentrate on these aspects of our culture!

* Oetzel, J. G., Arcos, B., Mabizela, P., Weinman, M., & Zhang, Q. (2006). Historical, political, and spiritual factors for conflict: Understand conflict perspectives and communication in the Muslim world, China, Colombia, and South Africa. In J.G. Oetzel & S. Ting-Toomey (Eds.) The Sage handbook of conflict communication. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. (invited).

Unrest Magazine

2010-06-13T00:10:00.000-07:00

I’ve seen and read some of these short articles!

That’s so good!

You can find another here and know more things!

Issue zero brings together a diverse range of writers, pieces, and themes to apply the first layer of what will hopefully become a vibrant future for Unrest Magazine. The magazine is broken up into a number of sections, which can be accessed using the tabs at the top of the screen. The Features section contains shorter articles relevant to current events and practices related to peace and conflict studies. Discourse comprises longer, more academic style articles. Under the Banter section readers will find book and movie reviews, along with shorter opinion style pieces. Right Hemisphere (R Hem) provides space for creative responses to the complex challenges facing the planet today. Voices is our place for Q&A with academics, practitioners, and other interesting people. Finally, The Editorial Cell (The E.C.) is Unrest's blog. While each issue of Unrest is published quarterly, The Editorial Cell is updated frequently. Unrest's editors and collaborators use the blog to respond in real time to events taking place worldwide.

A downloadable pdf version of each issue will be available shortly after the magazine's web publication for those interested. See the Collaborate section if you are interested in submitting a piece for our next issue or helping with the magazine.

Useful Media Sites for News About Conflict and Peace

2010-06-08T23:53:00.000-07:00

This short posting will highlight some of the key peace media and related sites that you may find useful in obtaining information. Obviously, not all sites listed below are impartial, but they do provide useful information and perspectives.

1) International Crisis Group - The International Crisis Group is now generally recognised as the world’s leading independent, non-partisan, source of analysis and advice to governments, and intergovernmental bodies like the United Nations, European Union and World Bank, on the prevention and resolution of deadly conflict.

2) Search for Common Ground - Founded in 1982, Search for Common Ground works to transform the way the world deals with conflict - away from adversarial approaches and towards collaborative problem solving. Search is one of the pioneering organizations in developing and producing peace media around the world through their Common Ground Productions Unit which their media arm. Using television, radio and Internet programming, CGP transforms the way individuals and societies deal with conflict: away from adversarial approaches, towards cooperative solutions. Whether countering "hate radio" in Africa or hate crime in the United States, Common Ground Productions is dedicated to harnessing the power of the media for peace. The organization also maintains the Common Ground News Service which is an independent source of news and opinion that disseminates fresh, solution-oriented articles to promote constructive dialogue on Muslim-Western relations and the Arab-Israeli conflict.

3) Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research and TFF News Navigator - TFF is an independent think tank, a global network and a website for peace by peaceful means. It inspires a passion for peace from the grassroots to the corridors of power. TFF is an all-volunteer global network. It promotes conflict-mitigation and reconciliation in general and in selected conflict regions through meticulous on-the-ground research, active listening, education and advocacy. TFF also maintains the News Navigator - 300+ mainstream and alternative media in one place.

4) Global Voices - is a leading participatory media news room for voices from the developing world. Since its founding in 2005, Global Voices has grown into a vibrant global community of more than 150 active volunteer authors and translators and more than 20 freelance part- time regional and language editors. Today, Global Voices is thriving, vital component of the global media environment, helping individuals and media professionals around the world gain access to the diverse voices coming from citizen media. We base our coverage on the words, images, and videos of ordinary people across the globe who use the internet to communicate and broadcast their thoughts, analysis, and observations.

5) Peace Media Clearinghouse - A New Multimedia Resource for Peacemakers developed by the United States Institute of Peace and Georgetown University. The clearinghouse provides a central site where individuals and organizations working in the conflict management field can access materials that support conflict analysis and prevention, conflict resolution, and post-conflict reconstruction and reconciliation. At the same time, the site will encourage development of the field itself by distilling best practices for creating and using multimedia in support of conflict management activities.

6) Youtube - is the leader in online video, and the premier destination to watch and share original videos worldwide through a Web experience. YouTube allows people to easily upload and share video clips on www.YouTube.com and across the Internet through websites, mobile devices, blogs, and email.

7) Alertnet - is a humanitarian news network based around a popular website. It aims to keep relief professionals and the wider public up-to-date on humanitarian crises around the globe. AlertNet attracts upwards of ten million users a year, has a network of 400 contributing humanitarian organizations and its weekly email digest is received by more than 26,000 readers.

8) Transcend Media Service - Part of the Transcend Network. The site provides original reporting that seeks to go beyond the usual questions, “How many were killed today?” and “Who is winning?” to ask two additional ones: “What is this conflict about?” and “What are possible solutions?”

9) Institute for War and Peace Reporting - builds democracy at the frontlines of conflict and change through the power of professional journalism. IWPR programs provide intensive hands-on training, extensive reporting and publishing, and ambitious initiatives to build the capacity of local media. Supporting peace-building, development and the rule of law, IWPR gives responsible local media a voice.

10) BBC News - Premier site of UK's leading news agency.

11) Al Jazeera English - the 24-hour English-language news and current affairs channel, is headquartered in Doha, the capital of Qatar. The organisation is the world's first global English language news channel to be headquartered in the Middle East. From this unique position, Al Jazeera English is destined to be the English-language channel of reference for Middle Eastern events, balancing the current typical information flow by reporting from the developing world back to the West and from the southern to the northern hemisphere.The channel aims to give voice to untold stories, promote debate, and challenge established perceptions.

12) Ode Magazine -s a print and online publication about positive news--the people and ideas that are changing our world for the better. Ode's aim is to bring a new reality into view, to explore opportunities for positive change (including peacemakers) in our daily lives and our daily minds. You can sign up for a free daily newsletter of positive news. If you would like to subscribe to the magazine, there is a special rate for members of the Peace and Collaborative Development Network (currently only for people in the US), see http://www.odemagazine.com/pcdn

13) International Center on Nonviolent Conflict's New Digest - The International Center on Nonviolent Conflict is pleased to circulate this daily selective digest of world news related to past, present and potential nonviolent conflicts, including active civilian-based struggles against oppressive regimes, nonviolent resistance, political and social dissidence, and the use of nonviolent tactics in a variety of causes. We also include stories that help readers glimpse the larger context of a conflict and that reflect on past historical struggles.

14) PeaceMaking News Portal from the Center for Humanitarian Dialogue - The Peacemaking News Portal is a sophisticated web-based tool designed to help people interested in conflict resolution easily filter through the vast amount of information on the internet to reach the most important and timely information.
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they were successful in loge path of the peace

2010-06-02T07:38:00.000-07:00

I think that Nine activists- four of them Turkish- who died when Israeli commandos boarded the six-ship convoy early on Monday, knew if they go, will die! But they went! They went for peace and they went for fight with war.

Yes, Israel has deported more than 120 foreign activists detained after a deadly raid on an aid flotilla trying to break its blockade of Gaza.

But I think these peace activists were triumphant with their blood and their vision were successful in loge path of the peace!

Likeness of PJ and anti-war movies

2010-05-23T10:57:00.000-07:00

I think Peace Journalism is like anti-war movie!
You may do not watch war, fire, shutting, and injured people or… but you know war characters! Anti-war movies show life and dirty war.
Peace Journalism do not describe war straightly, it focus on the people and Process of conflict!

summary of my thesis

2010-05-18T00:53:00.000-07:00

Come back after almost 3 years! Hoom… it’s good! I’ve many plans! About my life and keep on my peace studies!

Many months ago I defended my dissertation about “Peace journalism and its news values in Iran” The news Coverage of Coalition to Iraq by Six Iranian Widely Circulated Dailies (Kayhan, Resalat, Hamshahri, Ettelaat, Etemaad, Yaseno).

This is summary of my thesis:

This research pays to explain "peace journalism" which is regarded as new concept in worldwide journalism literature. The main goal of this research will help to make clear and promote the level of theoretical literature of peace journalism.

To this end, I tried to define parameter and values of this kind of journalism; and then to evaluate the level of using these standards by six large circulation newspapers during war between coalition force and Iraq militaries.

The research is based on the Galtung theory and four main approaches of peace journalism (Solution oriented approach, Process oriented approach, Truth oriented approach, People oriented approach) and add two key principles in journalism; one, professional and other, moral principles.

The researcher assumes that interaction between those four approaches and the two principles could lead to sustainable peace for news papers.

After figuring out and explaining the values and approaches of peace journalism by content analysis, the survey showed that amount of from approaches of peace journalism in the survey have been too low even though the news papers the media have more attention to people oriented approach in comparison with other approaches.

It seems that the usage of the people oriented during Iraq war was originated from cultural proximity between Iran and Iraq. In other word, repercussion of Iraqi people innocence in six daily papers just limited to war and there have been less effort for making clear the dimension of the war.

These newspapers have no correspondent in Iraq for coverage and it seems that it's one of the reasons that they publish less descriptive report and instead analytic and investigative reports, they preferred to covering of hard news about clashes between coalition forces and Iraq militaries.

Galtung's article about peace journalism

2008-02-26T22:57:00.000-08:00

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.
Full article

Using Conflict Analysis in Reporting

2008-02-24T04:39:00.000-08:00

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

2008-02-24T04:33:00.000-08:00

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

2008-02-24T04:09:00.000-08:00

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?

2008-02-10T09:25:00.000-08:00

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...

2008-02-03T12:00:00.000-08:00

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

2008-01-22T00:42:00.000-08:00

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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WHAT IS PEACE JOURNALISM?

2007-12-31T07:38:00.000-08:00

Peace Journalism is when editors and reporters make choices - of what stories to report, and how to report them - which create opportunities for society at large to consider and to value non-violent responses to conflict.

It flourishes, under that or similar names, in countries such as South Africa, Colombia and Indonesia, where journalists, like other professionals, tend to ask themselves what contribution they can make to bringing peace in their society. Journalism in the west, in particular in English-speaking countries, has a different tradition. That is not to say there is no Peace Journalism.

There is some, and it is easy to see how there could be more. Plenty of Peace Journalism could be done, in ways entirely in keeping with the methods of western journalists and the expectations of their readers and audiences.

hi

2007-12-20T11:36:00.000-08:00

hi
this is my english blog about journalism and communication!
sorry maybe i make many language mistake, because i know english alittle!
this space is exercise for me about english and journalism!