ABOUT THE CENTER
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,
women, youth, and migrants.
The center launched 12 years ago as a unit within a university, but has since become an independent entity. The center partners on projects with and advises Making Peace Visible, which is dedicated to "igniting conversations" about how media cover peace and conflict.
PEACE JOURNALIST MAGAZINE
The April 2024 edition features stories from Moldova, Zimbabwe, Greece, Nepal, and elsewhere. We also offer a tribute to the PJ pioneer Dr. Johan Galtung.
CURRENT PROJECTS
In the 2023-24 academic year, center director Steven Youngblood is serving as a Fulbright Scholar in Chisinau, Moldova. You can follow his (mis) adventures on the Peace Journalism Insights blog. The Center for Global Peace Journalism also participated in a project in Greece (Aristotle University Summer Journalism School
and media conference), and is planning presentations in Luxembourg. As always, the center is producing two editions
of
The Peace Journalist magazine. The center will also continue its work with
the Making Peace Visible organization (formerly War Stories Peace Stories).
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.
ABOUT THE CENTER’S DIRECTOR
Steven Youngblood is the founding director of the
Center for Global Peace Journalism in Parkville, MO, where he is also a
communications and peace studies professor. He has organized and taught peace
journalism seminars and workshops in 33 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