The Peace Journalist is a semi-annual publication of the Center for Global Peace Journalism. It is the world's only regular publication dedicated to peace journalism.
The June 2026 issue features articles about a unique program that brought Pacific Islands journalists to Hawaii, peace linguistics, and reports from Cameroon, India, Greece, and elsewhere. Enjoy!
The December 2025 issue showcases PJ in the Pacific and in Germany, Indonesia, Pakistan, and elsewhere; and features articles about the 2025 Luxembourg Peace Prize winner for peace journalism, and the East-West Center's Jefferson Fellowship.
WHAT IS PEACE JOURNALISM?
Peace Journalism is when editors and reporters make choices that improve the
prospects for peace. These choices, including how to frame stories and
carefully choosing which words are used, create an atmosphere conducive to
peace and supportive of peace initiatives and peacemakers, without compromising
the basic principles of good journalism. (Adapted from Lynch/McGoldrick, Peace
Journalism). Peace Journalism gives peacemakers a voice while making peace
initiatives and non-violent solutions more visible and viable.
The Center for Global Peace Journalism works with journalists, academics, and students worldwide to improve reporting about conflicts, social unrest, reconciliation, solutions, and peace. Through its courses, workshops, lectures, magazine, blog, and other resources, the Center encourages media to reject sensational and inflammatory reporting, and produce counter-narratives that offer a more nuanced view of those who are marginalized—ethnic/racial/religious minorities, indigenous, LGBTQ, women, youth, and migrants.
ABOUT THE CENTER’S DIRECTOR
Steven Youngblood is a journalism program coordinator at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. In 2023-24, he served as a Fulbright Scholar in Chisinau, Moldova. He has organized and taught peace
journalism seminars and workshops in 34 countries around the world.
Youngblood is a three-time J. William Fulbright Scholar
(Moldova 2023-24, Azerbaijan 2007, Moldova 2001), and author of Peace
Journalism: Principles and Practices (Routledge/Taylor and Francis-2016)
and Professor Komagum (2013). He
edits The Peace Journalist magazine,
and writes and produces
the Peace Journalism Insights blog. He has been
recognized for his contributions to world peace by the U.S. State Department,
Rotary International, the United Nations Association of Greater Kansas City,
and the World Peace Forum/Schengen Peace Foundation, which is awarding him the
2020-21 Luxembourg Peace Prize.
Steven Youngblood
steven.youngblood@fulbrightmail.org
