Dov Shinar & Wilhelm Kempf (eds.)
Peace Journalism: The State of the Art
Friedens- und Demokratiepsychologie,
Bd. 5, 246S., brosch., 34.80 €. Berlin: regener, 2007.
ISBN 978-3-936014-12-9
The book is a critical
exploration of peace journalism, a mode of coverage that proposes alternatives
to the preference of war in the media professional culture. Originally published
electronically, and now offered in print, it features information, ideas and
methods on peace journalism to be used by journalists, instructors, students
and the general public.
Written by some of the most prominent media researchers and practitioners, active
in the Peace Journalism International Group of the Toda Institute for Global
Peace and Policy Research, the book tackles some of the most salient and controversial
issues in the conceptual, professional and educational areas and includes an
uncommon interaction of applied and theoretical work; explorations of the expressions
of peace journalism in text, discourse, and image; and analyses of cases such
as Northern Ireland, the Basque country, Israel-Palestine, the Oslo peace process,
the coverage of the Mohammed cartoons, and events in the Iraq War.
With contributions by Annabel
McGoldrick (War journalism and "objectivity"); Samuel Peleg (Peace
journalism and conflict theory); Susan Dente Ross: ((De-) Constructing conflict);
Robert A. Hackett (Is peace journalism possible?); Lea Mandelzis (Representations
of peace in news discourse); Rune Ottosen (Emphasizing images in peace journalism);
Wilhelm Kempf (De-escalation oriented post-war-coverage); Jake Lynch (A course
in peace journalism); Bev Keever (De-escalating the language of killing); Dov
Shinar (Peace journalism - The state of the art)