Political posturing and the need for peace journalism in South Africa: The case of Julius Malema

Hyde‐Clarke, Nathalie

doi:10.1080/02500167.2011.558018

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“…The existing scholarship on peace journalism is mainly developed from a Western perspective where researchers have analyzed the role of Western media during the US military attacks on countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America (Hackett, 2006;Ross and Tehranian, 2008;Nohrstedt and Ottosen, 2010). The very few studies conducted by the Asian and African researchers (Lee and Maslog, 2005;Lee, 2010;Hussain, 2015b;Hyde-Clarke, 2011;Rodny-Gumede, 2015) do not get into the heart of the matter since they have mainly adopted the theoretical models conceived at the Western settings and have overlooked the specific journalistic cultures of the third world countries (Blasi, 2009;Fahmy and Eakin, 2014;Hanitzch, 2007). Despite merits, the overtly generalized prescriptions in the peace journalism literature are difficult to be practiced in the chaotic world of journalism in the Least Developed Countries (Fahmy and Eakin, 2014;Wolsfeld, 1997Wolsfeld, , 2004.…”

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Identifying peace-oriented media strategies for deadly conflicts in Pakistan

Hussain

Lynch

2018

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This paper investigates the existing journalistic practices in three deadly conflicts in Pakistan and also proposes corrective peace-oriented media strategies. Based on semi-structured interviews with journalists, analysts and stakeholders involved in the religiously inspired Taliban conflict, separatist-led Balochistan conflict and the ethno-political conflict in Karachi, six strategies have been identified. These include highlighting the problems of sufferers and contextualization of the Taliban conflict; inclusion of multi-perspectives and highlighting the voices of peacemakers in the Balochistan conflict; humanization and solution-oriented coverage of the ethno-political conflict in Karachi. While the journalists agreed these strategies were very much in line with their professional duties, the analysts and stakeholders hoped the proposed journalistic practices would lead to better understanding and facilitate resolution of the three conflicts. Based on the findings of this article, the researchers advocate a pragmatic form of peace journalism that reflects the ground realities as compared to the more critical form of peace journalism that becomes difficult to be practiced in conflict scenarios.

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Identifying peace-oriented media strategies for deadly conflicts in Pakistan

Hussain

Lynch

2018

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“…Numerous ethical principles have been developed to guide and provide journalists with “alternative” ways of understanding conflict situations and contributing to the resolution process through the language of peace in news reporting (İrvan, 2006). This serves as a framework for implementing peace-journalism, which improves the significant ability of journalists to frame stories in manners that provide society with adequate information to inspire a nonviolent approach to conflict situations (Hyde-Clarke, 2011). Galtung developed a model to distinguish between peace/conflict and war/violence-oriented journalism.…”

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Peace journalism strategy for covering online political discourses in a multipolar society and the new public sphere

Auwal

Ersoy

2020

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The relationship between political competition and social polarization has been studied extensively while overlooking the divisive rhetoric in online political discourses and how media’s coverage creates the social-psychological barriers to peace and a unified sense of national identity/unity. Adapting Galtung’s peace-journalism model through the qualitative content and news frame analyses of contenders’ tweeting activities and news coverage during Nigeria’s 2019 presidential contests, this study reveals the prevalence of othering discourses in contenders’ tweets and the attributes of conflict-escalatory coverage by Nigerian newspapers. Implementing peace-journalism strategy become essential to create shared values for improving political communication amidst the new public sphere in multipolar Nigeria.

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“…For instance, responding to the critique of foreign coverage, most journalists interviewed by Rodny-Gumede (2016) recognized the need to prioritise peace narratives, and to include a wider range of sources and alternative views, even if PJ was unfamiliar. While the reporting of Africa by international media is often researched, the role of local journalists is not (Bunce, 2010) albeit a few scholars are active therein (see, inter alia, Hyde-Clarke, 2011;Youngblood, 2017b;Adebayo, 2017Adebayo, , 2018Demarest andLanger, 2018, Ogenga, 2019). Broadly speaking, these studies conclude that notwithstanding advantages and limitations, certain aspects of PJ are worth implementing when reporting African conflicts and other sensitive issues.…”

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Peace Journalism in Theory and Practice: Kenyan and Foreign Correspondent Perspectives

Arregui

Thomas

Kilby

2020

Journalism Practice

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Peace journalism (PJ) is a framework intended to improve conflict coverage by challenging traditional news values. Our study aimed to compare the use of PJ in the local and foreign coverage of two key violent events in Kenyan history-the 2017 election violence and the 2019 Dusit attack-as well as collecting reporters' views and understandings of the concept. A content analysis of 257 articles across 10 legacy newspapers from Kenya, the US, the UK and South Africa were supplemented with 14 semi-structued interviews with local and foreign reporters. We found war journalism (WJ) to be the prevailing frame, with no significant difference in the use of PJ between Kenyan and international newspapers apart from a few variations of individual indicators. The interviews exposed a lack of awareness of PJ in the case of foreign correspondents, and an interpretation that fundamentally differs from traditional understandings of the concept in the case of Kenyan reporters. We conclude that PJ is not a one-size-fits-all approach and needs to be embraced and transformed in cooperation between journalists and academics before it can become a reality in mainstream newsrooms.

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Political posturing and the need for peace journalism in South Africa: The case of Julius Malema

Cited by 15 publications

References 5 publications

Identifying peace-oriented media strategies for deadly conflicts in Pakistan

Identifying peace-oriented media strategies for deadly conflicts in Pakistan

Peace journalism strategy for covering online political discourses in a multipolar society and the new public sphere

Peace Journalism in Theory and Practice: Kenyan and Foreign Correspondent Perspectives

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