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After nearly 28 years, The Communication Initiative (The CI) Global is entering a new chapter. 

Following a period of transition, the global website has been transferred to the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa, where it will be administered by the Social and Behaviour Change Communication Division. Wits' commitment to social change and justice makes it a trusted steward for The CI's legacy and future. 

On the transfer, co-founder Victoria Martin expressed her pleasure to see this work continue under Wits' leadership, knowing that co-founder Warren Feek (1953–2024) would have felt deep pride in The CI Global's Africa-led direction. 

As Wits, we honour the team and partners who sustained The CI for decades and look forward building from that strong base. This includes co-founders Warren Feek (1953-2024) and Victoria Martin as well as La Iniciativa de Comunicación (CILA), which continues independently at lainiciativadecomunicacion.com with links to The CI Global site. We are also eager to forge new partnerships and entertain new ideas as we consider how best to contribute to social and behaviour change in our rapidly evolving environment.

If you are joining the International Social and Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) Summit in Panama, please join Wits and CILA on Monday, 22 June, to share your thoughts and suggestion for the relaunch of the Communication Initiative. We will be in Pacifica 5 from 12-1:25 for the Refuel, Reflect, and Renew Lunch Series: The Communication Initiative: celebrating a driving force for Communication for Social Change and the way forward. We will reflect on the legacy of Warren Feek and family in creating the Communication Initiative, consider the contributions of CI over the years and then turn our attention towards the future in this dynamic session. 

If you are unable to join us in Panama, we still want to hear from you. Please contribute your thoughts by following this link: https://redcap.link/CommunicationInitiative2026 or reaching out to ci_surveys@commint.com. 

You can also follow the QR Code:

 https://redcap.link/CommunicationInitiative2026

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Peace Journalism, War and Conflict Resolution

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  • Richard Lance Keeble, ed.
  • John Tulloch, ed.
  • Florian Zollmann, ed.

Peace Journalism, War and Conflict Resolution draws together the work of more than 20 international writers, journalists, theorists, and campaigners in the field of peace journalism. This text aims to provide an overview exploring the role of the media in conflict resolution. Sections focus in detail on theory, international practice, and critiques of mainstream media performance from a peace perspective. Countries discussed include the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Cyprus, Sweden, Canada, India, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea and the Philippines. Chapters examine a variety of issues, including mainstream newspapers, indigenous media, blogs, and radical alternative websites.

Contents include:

  • Foreword - John Pilger
  • Introduction: Why peace journalism matters - Richard Lance Keeble, John Tulloch and Florian Zollmann
  • Section 1. Peace journalism: New theoretical positions
    1. Non-violence in philosophical and media ethics - Clifford G. Christians
    2. Recovering agency for the propaganda model: The implications for reporting war and peace - Oliver Boyd-Barrett
    3. Peace journalism as political practice: A new, radical look at the theory - Richard Lance Keeble
    4. Propaganda, war, peace and the media - Jake Lynch
  • Section 2. Peace (or conflict sensitive) journalism: Theory and practice in an international context
    1. A global standard for reporting conflict and peace - Annabel McGoldrick and Jake Lynch
    2. When peace journalism and feminist theory join forces: A Swedish case study - Agneta Söderberg Jacobson
    3. Crossing borders: The global influence of Indigenous media - Valerie Alia
    4. Iraq and Dahr Jamail: War reporting from a peace perspective - Florian Zollmann
    5. Are you a vulture? Reflecting on the ethics and aesthetics of atrocity coverage and its aftermath - Pratap Rughani
    6. Social networks and the reporting of conflict - Donald Matheson and Stuart Allan
    7. Building a peace journalists’ network from the ground: The Philippine experience - Jean Lee C. Patindol
    8. Peace journalism in practice – Peace News: For non-violent revolution - Milan Rai
    9. Mediating peace? Military radio in the Balkans and Afghanistan - Sarah Maltby
  • Section 3. Peace journalism’s critique: transforming the mainstream
    1. Conflict gives us identity: Media and the ‘Cyprus problem’ - Susan Dente Ross and Sevda Alankus
    2. The Peace Counts project: A promoter of real change or mere idealism? - Marlis Prinzing
    3. Conscience and the press: Newspaper treatment of pacifists and conscientious objectors 1939–40 - John Tulloch
    4. War as peace: The Canadian media in Afghanistan - James Winter
    5. Normalising the unthinkable: The media’s role in mass killing - David Edwards
    6. US coverage of conflict and the media attention cycle - Stephan Russ-Mohl
    7. Perspectives on conflict resolution and journalistic training - Rukhsana Aslam
  • Afterword - Jeffery Klaehn

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CAMECO Library New Publications, July 20 2010.