Peace Journalism Principles and Practices

Steven Youngblood (@PeaceJourn) is Director of the Center for Global Peace Journalism and a communication professor at Park University in Parkville, Missouri. He has organized and taught peace journalism seminars and workshops worldwide, including in the Republic of Georgia, Kuwait, Ireland, Cyprus, Turkey, Costa Rica, Lebanon, Indian-administered Kashmir, Azerbaijan, Jordan, Kenya, Japan, South Sudan, Austria, Germany, Kyrgyzstan, South Africa, and Uganda.

1. The Peace Journalism approach 2. How traditional media inflame and encourage conflict 3. Propaganda and the peace journalism approach 4. Reporting civic unrest and the need for peace journalism 5. Peace journalism: The academic and practical debate 6. Measuring peace and peace journalism 7. Peace journalism, stereotypes, and racial narratives 8. Crime, mass shootings, and the peace journalism approach 9. PJ: Debunking traditional media narratives about terrorism 10. Media narratives of the vulnerable-Immigrants, IDP’s Refugees 11. Peace and Electoral Journalism and media narratives 12. Peace journalism as a tool for reconciliation 13. PJ as a tool for development 14. Peace Journalism: Obstacles and Prospects