Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-5nwft Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-05-30T01:41:26.958Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Introduction

Media, Conflict, and Peace-Building

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2022

By
Innocent Chiluwa
Edited by
Innocent Chiluwa
Innocent Chiluwa
Affiliation:
Covenant University, Nigeria
Get access

Summary

The media not only play vital roles in the mediation of conflicts and wars, they also are involved in discursive practices and cultural politics that predict the possibilities of social transformation and peace-building (Ivie 2016). The study of these roles in the context of local and global conflicts and peace-building efforts becomes more crucial in terms of how the professional practices of a journalist are defined. According to Carpentier and Terzis (2005), a journalist has the responsibility to adopt a particular model of war or peace reporting, such as those proposed by Galtung (1998) (i.e., peace-oriented journalism, which is generally perceived as people- and solution-oriented, or conflict/war journalism, which is violence-oriented, and tends towards propaganda). Citing Galtung (2000; Galtung and Fischer 2013), Nijenhuis (2014) argues that the media in the practice of war journalism are capable of exacerbating the conflict by

Type
Chapter
Information
Discourse, Media, and Conflict
Examining War and Resolution in the News
 , pp. 1 - 16
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Abdulbaqi, Saudat and Ariemu, Ogaga. 2017. “Newspapers Framing of Herdsmen–Farmers’ Conflicts in Nigeria and Its Implication on Peace-Oriented Journalism.” Creative Artist: A Journal of Theatre and Media Studies 11(2): 1–29.Google Scholar
Ahlsen, Pernilla. 2013. Peace Journalism: How Media Reporting Affects Wars and Conflict. https://kvinnatillkvinna.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/11-Peace-journalism-ENG.pdf.Google Scholar
Ahmed, Saifuddin and Matthes, Jorg. 2017. “Media Representation of Muslims and Islam from 2000 to 2015: A Meta-Analysis.” International Communication Gazette 79(3): 219–244.Google Scholar
Baker, Paul. 2010. “Representations of Islam in British Broadsheet and Tabloid Newspapers 1999–2005.” Journal of Language and Politics 9(2): 310–338.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Baker, Paul and McEnery, Tony. 2005. “A Corpus-Based Approach to Discourses of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in UN and Newspaper Texts.” Journal of Language and Politics 4(2): 197–226.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Barrett, Del. 2007. “‘War on Terror’: An Intentional Choice of Words? A Corpus Analysis of War on and War against.” In Proceedings of the Corpus Linguistics Conference, CL2007, University of Birmingham, July 27–30. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/7830/751168d5f212b4e1624c6a1b4dd04b92e7af.pdf.Google Scholar
Billig, Michael. 1989. “The Argumentative Nature of Holding Strong Views: A Case Study.” European Journal of Social Psychology 19, 203–223.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bouvier, Gwen. 2014. “British Press Photographs and the Misrepresentation of the 2011 ‘Uprising’ in Libya: A Content Analysis.” In Machin, D. (Ed.), Visual Communication. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 281–299.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Broersma, Marcel. 2008. “The Discursive Strategy of a Subversive Genre: The Introduction of the Interview in US and European Journalism.” In Hoen, H.W. and Kemperink, M.G. (Eds.), Vision in Text and Image. Leuven: Peeters, 143–158.Google Scholar
Cap, Piotr. 2018. “From ‘Cultural Unbelonging’ to ‘Terrorist risk’: Communicating Threat in the Polish Anti-Immigration Discourse.” Critical Discourse Studies 15(3): 285–302.Google Scholar
Carpentier, Nico and Terzis, George, Eds. 2005. Media Representations of War and Conflict. A workshop organized on March 18, 2005 by the KUB-Center Communication for Social Change, the Communications Department of the Vesalius College (VUB), Brussels and the Pascal Decroos Fund for Investigative Journalism. http://nicocarpentier.net/war&media_finalreport.pdf.Google Scholar
Chiluwa, Innocent. 2011. Labeling and Ideology in the Press: A Critical Discourse Study of the Niger Delta Crisis. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.Google Scholar
Chiluwa, Innocent and Chiluwa, Isioma Maureen. 2020. “‘Deadlier Than Boko Haram’: Representations of the Herder–Farmer Conflict in the Local and Foreign Press. Media, War & Conflict February 2020 (online) https://doi.org/10.1177/1750635220902490.Google Scholar
Cihankova, Hana. 2014. “Influence of Media on Vietnam War.” Bachelor thesis, Palacky University, Olomouc. https://theses.cz/id/h0uo3z/Bachelor_Thesis_Hana_Cihankova.pdf.Google Scholar
Erjavec, Karmen and Volcic, Zala. 2007. “Recontextualizing Traumatic Pasts: Croatian Justification of War Crimes in Bosnia-Herzegovina.” Global Media Journal Mediterranean Edition 2(1): 10–22.Google Scholar
Fairclough, Norman. 1989. Language and Power. London: Longman.Google Scholar
Fowler, Roger. 1991. Language in the News: Discourse and Ideology in the Press. London: Routledge.Google Scholar
Galtung, Johan. 1987. “Language and War: Is There a Connection?” Current Research on Peace and Violence 10: 2–6.Google Scholar
Galtung, Johan. 2000. “The Task of Peace Journalism.” Ethical Perspectives 7(2–3): 162–167.Google Scholar
Galtung, Johan and Fischer, Dietrich 2013. “High Road, Low Road: Charting the Course for Peace Journalism.” In Johan, Galtung, SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice, vol 5. Berlin: Springer, 95–102.Google Scholar
Gavriely-Nuri, Dalia. 2010. “The Idiosyncratic Language of Israeli ‘Peace’: A Cultural Approach to Critical Discourse Analysis.” Discourse & Society 21(5): 565–585.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Valerie, Gouse, Valentin-Llopis, Mariely, Perry, Stephen, and Nyamwange, Beryl. 2019. “An Investigation of the Conceptualization of Peace and War in Peace Journalism Studies of Media Coverage of National and International Conflicts.” Media, War & Conflict 12(4): 435–449.Google Scholar
Griffin, Michael. 2010. “Media Images of War.” Media, War & Conflict 3(1): 7–41.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Härmänmaa, Marja. 2014. “Gruesome Entertainment: The Representation of the Iraq War in the Italian Press.” In Huhtinen, Aki-Mauri, Kotilainen, Noora, and Vuorinen, Marja (Eds.), Binaries in Battle: Representations of Division and Conflict. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars.Google Scholar
Ivie, Robert L. 2016. “Hegemony, Instabilities and Interventions: A Special Issue on Discourses of War and Peace.” Journal of Multicultural Discourses 11(2): 124–134.Google Scholar
Jorgensen, Marianne and Phillips, Louise J. 2002. Discourse as Theory and Method. London: Sage.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kakava, Christina. 2001. “Discourse and Conflict.” In Schiffrin, Deborah, Tannen, Deborah, and Hamilton, Heidi E. (Eds.), The Handbook of Discourse Analysis. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 650–670.Google Scholar
Kellner, Douglas. 2004. “Preemptive Strikes and the War on Iraq: A Critique of the Bush Administration’s Unilateralism and Militarism.” New Political Science 26(3): 417–440.Google Scholar
Kurspahic, Kemal. 2003. Balkan Media in War and Peace. Washington DC: USIP Press.Google Scholar
Laclau, Ernesto and Mouffe, Chantal. 1985. Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics. London: Verso.Google Scholar
Lynch, Jake. 2015. “Peace Journalism: Theoretical and Methodological Developments.” Global Media and Communication 11(3): 193–199.Google Scholar
Mandelzis, Lea. 2007. “Representations of Peace in News Discourse: Viewpoint and Opportunity for Peace Journalism.” Conflict & Communication Online 6(1): 1–10.Google Scholar
Nijenhuis, Judith. 2014. Peace and War Frames in the Media Representations of the Libyan Civil War. Nijmegen: Radboud University. https://theses.ubn.ru.nl/bitstream/handle/123456789/2783/Nijenhuis%2C_Judith_1.pdf?sequence=1.Google Scholar
Puddephatt, Andrew. 2006. “Voice of War: Conflict and the Role of the Media.” International Media Support. www.mediasupport.org/publication/voices-of-war-conflict-and-the-role-of-the-media/.Google Scholar
Saramifar, Younes. 2019. “Framing the War in the Post War Era: Exploring the Counter- Narratives in Frames of an Iranian war Photographer Thirty Years after the Ceasefire with Iraq.” Media, War & Conflict 12(4): 392–410.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Shinar, Dov. 2013. “Reflections on Media War Coverage: Dissonance, Dilemmas, and the Need for Improvement.” Conflict & Communication Online 12(2): 1–13.Google Scholar
Suurmond, Jeannine. 2005. Our Talk and Walk: Discourse Analysis and Conflict Studies. Working Paper No. 35, Netherland Institute of International Relations (Clingendael), Conflict Research Unit. https://slidelegend.com/our-talk-and-walk-clingendael-institute_5a075d561723dd5fba211873.html.Google Scholar
van Dijk, Teun. 1991. “The Interdisciplinary Study of News as Discourse.” In Bruhn- Jensen, K. and Jankowksi, N. (Eds.), Handbook of Qualitative Methods in Mass Communication Research. London: Routledge, 108–120.Google Scholar
van Dijk, Teun. 2008. Discourse and Power. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
van Dijk, Teun. 2002. “Political Discourse and Political Cognition.” In Chilton, Paul and Schaffner, Christina (Eds.), Politics as Text and Talk: Analytic Approaches to Political Discourse. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 203–237.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Viljoen, Frans. 2005. “Hate Speech in Rwanda as a Test Case for International Human Rights Law.” The Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa, 38(1): 1–14.Google Scholar
Wenden, Anita. 2005. “The Politics of Representation: A Critical Discourse Analysis of an Aljazeera Special Report.” International Journal of Peace Studies 10(2): 89–110.Google Scholar
Yanagizawa-Drott, David. 2014. “Propaganda and Conflict: Evidence from the Rwandan Genocide.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 129(4): 1947–1994. doi:10.1093/qje/qju020.Google Scholar

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×