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From Conventional Towards New Frames of Peace Journalism: The Cases of Uganda and Burundi

In: Peace, Security and Post-Conflict Reconstruction in the Great Lakes Region of Africa
Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo; Joseph Gahama (eds.)
Dakar: CODESRIA (2017), pp. 209-236

ISBN 978-2-86978-720-9

"The main task of the study was to evaluate, from the perspective of Burundian (n=58) and Ugandan (n=183) journalists the feasibility of making operational the normative frames of peace reporting as expounded by peace journalism scholars against the more entrenched news frames that favour conflict or violence [...] The findings discussed in this chapter show that, overall, Burundian and Ugandan journalists still emphasise the frames of conflict or violence as viable news values. The survey results confirm the claim by scholars who have observed that conventional journalism frames that favour conflict or violence are well-entrenched and routinely influence media content. The rootedness of the frames of conflict or violence is evident across gender and years of journalism experience. This rootedness is most likely due to the training which is still dependent on literature and models of what Galtung and Ruge identified as favouring the conflict or violence framing of news." (Conclusion, page 231-232)