"This bilingual, cross-national study analyzes stories about the Colombian peace process that were engaged with on social media o understand the use of peace and war framing in news reporting. Using content analysis as a method, this paper operationalized Galtung’s classification of peace journali
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sm and follows framing methodological adjustments and improvements suggested by previous peace journalism scholars. Results show that, even during peace talks, media use war narratives more often than peace frames, and social media users amplify more war than peace-oriented content. Proximity to conflict also was shown to be an important factor, as Colombian media used more war frames than foreign media. These findings are relevant for their implications about how national media consistently emphasized a war frame that social media users amplified, which we argue has implications for how citizens viewed the Colombian peace process, ultimately potentially influencing the decision to vote down the referendum." (Abstract)
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"Colombia's 2016 peace agreement with the FARC guerrilla sought to end fifty years of war, and won President Juan Manuel Santos the Nobel Peace Prize. Yet Colombian society rejected it in a polarizing referendum, amid an emotive disinformation campaign. A renegotiated deal began to be implemented, a
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lbeit haunted by a legitimacy deficit. Gwen Burnyeat, a political anthropologist and peace practitioner, joined the Office of the High Commissioner for Peace, the government institution responsible for peace negotiations, which created a "peace pedagogy" strategy, a world first in peace processes, to explain the agreement to Colombian society. Her multi-scale ethnography, based on unprecedented access to government officials, reveals the challenges they experienced in representing the government to skeptical audiences and translating the peace process for public opinion. Through peace pedagogy, officials embodied the government and became the relay between state and citizens--effectively, the face of the Santos government. Burnyeat argues that Santos' failure to mobilize society was the fatal flaw in the peace process. As in the UK's Brexit referendum and the US Trump election, rational explanations were powerless against disinformation because political views are shaped by emotions, culture, history, and identity. The Face of Peace offers the Colombian case as a mirror to the global crisis of liberalism, shattering the fantasy of rationality that haunts liberal responses to "post-truth" politics." (Publisher description)
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"Starting from the escalation dynamics of conflicts and the principles of cooperative conflict resolution, the present article develops recommendations for how media can report constructively on negotiations and give peaceful conflict settlement a chance. To ensure this and create reasonable commona
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lity between negotiators and the public, coverage must begin already before negotiations, and it must critically accompany the negotiating process, comprehensively inform the public on the outcomes of negotiations and explain why a proposed conflict resolution is or should be acceptable for all involved parties. Difficulties arising during the negotiation process must not be taken as opportunities to throw in the towel, and any rule violations by conflict parties should not be met with accusations of guilt, but rather should be countered with rational arguments." (Abstract)
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"Las dificultades que afronta el proceso de cumplimiento del Acuerdo para la Terminación del Conflicto y la Construcción de una Paz Estable y Duradera, firmado en 2016 entre el Gobierno de Juan Manuel Santos y las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc-Ep); el fortalecimiento de diverso
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s grupos al margen de la ley (entre los que se deben mencionar a las disidencias de las Farc); la confluencia de diferentes tipos de violencia y criminalidad a lo largo y ancho del país; y la débil respuesta del Estado para enfrentar las diferentes problemáticas, han consolidado la idea de que la implementación de lo acordado es inviable. Frente a este momento crítico, las voces de quienes tienen aún esperanza no se han acallado. Y el periodismo, con un sentido de responsabilidad social, no puede dejarse llevar por la desesperanza. El papel de quienes aman este oficio debe ser encontrar las causas de la nueva situación, y hacer una veeduría –desde la fuente- a lo acordado, para poder contribuir a detectar la ruta para que lo logrado en el proceso de paz sea viable para Colombia. Este manual expone, precisamente, las rutas para hacer seguimiento a los dineros de la implementación del Acuerdo de Paz. En él, los lectores encontrarán la nueva arquitectura institucional para la paz, diseñada y manejada no solo por parte del Estado, sino por la comunidad internacional, que tanto ha trabajado para que la convivencia se abra paso en el país. Además, se diseñaron la metodología y las herramientas para el seguimiento a los dineros del posconflicto, en un capítulo que reúne lo mejor de las experiencias y los conocimientos de los periodistas investigadores que forman parte de Consejo de Redacción. Igualmente, se sientan las bases para la construcción de una agenda periodística sobre el seguimiento a la transición al posconflicto y, finalmente, se presentan dos investigaciones periodísticas sobre la implementación del Acuerdo de Paz, producto de un ejercicio de construcción de contenidos a partir de un taller en el que participaron doce reporteros de diferentes regiones del país, inspirado en la metodología y las herramientas del periodismo de investigación, con la intención de hacer una especie de primer balance sobre la marcha de la implementación." (Editorial, página 19-20)
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"This study examines the relationship between viewers' dependence on major international news media and their opinions on how core issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict could be resolved. The study is premised on the theoretical assumption that Media System Dependency (MSD) can be helpful as a
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means of evaluating the importance of particular media outlets in determining opinion and behaviour. The study utilises mixed content analysis and survey methods. The content analysis focuses on within-article salience to determine relative media emphasis on core issues of the conflict. The survey involved over 600 viewers of BBC World, Al-Jazeera English, CNN International and Press TV across Nigeria and Malaysia, and focuses on the viewers' opinions on how to resolve core issues of the conflict. Results show that dependence on media sources predicted and explained significant proportions of the viewers' opinions on how each core issues of the conflict, including the status of Hamas in the peace process could be resolved. No significant relationship was found between dependence on media sources and the viewers' opinions on which of the core issues require the most urgent attention in resolving the conflict. In conclusion, media's presence in the viewers' opinions on how core issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict could be resolved was relative to the viewers' dependence on the media sources, thus backing the theoretical assumption of MSD and the proposition that media are able to shape peace in Israel/Palestine by applying coverage to the structure of peace in the conflict." (Abstract)
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