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  • 15 Oct
    2009
    Writing peace out of the script

    What are the opportunities and constraints involved in highlighting non-violent interventions in situations of conflict for the general media? Civil society organizations, academic institutions, faith groups and peace workers are regularly involved in conflict transformation work, and in direct interventions to challenge violence and injustice. While the role of the military is regularly profiled and even celebrated, the contribution of those who act without weapons or contracts is usually overlooked. In part, this is because the nature of peace work is often sensitive and requires a degree of ‘under the radar’ operation. But it also happens because of lack of wider understanding and knowledge of non-violent interventions, and because such interventions do not fit the dominant ‘news narrative’ around conflict. This becomes particularly evident in times of crisis. Here we present a short case study of working with the wider media response to the 2005-6 ‘Iraq hostage crisis’ (as it became known), involving four members of a short-term Christian Peacemaker Teams delegation in Baghdad.

    Simon Barrow
  • 9 Oct
    2009
    Religion in the news brings media and faith representatives together

    A major gathering on religion and the media - aimed at journalists, press associations, faith representatives and academics - takes place in Windsor this weekend.

  • 31 May
    2009
    Truthfulness, speech and wise silence

    A a simple integrity can rebuke our culture's debased and profligate way with words, say Jill Segger. Restraint in communication is counter-cultural. Humanity is wisest when it recognises the best words as those taking flesh rather than fury.

  • 6 Apr
    2009
    Uncertain future for religion reporting in the USA

    News coverage of the religious landscape in the United States has in recent years gained visibility because of increased interest in issues related to religion but now faces an uncertain future.

  • 9 Mar
    2009
    'War without witnesses' in Sri Lanka condemned by Amnesty

    Amnesty International has called on the Sri Lankan government and Tamil Tiger rebels to stop the continuing harassment of journalists and media workers as they try to report the conflict there.

  • 11 Sep
    2008
    British human rights activist trapped in the Gaza strip

    Human rights activist and journalist Lauren Booth has been trapped illegally in the Gaza strip as a result of a legal campaign calling for an end to the Israeli government blockade there, say Palestinian activists.

  • 4 Jul
    2008
    A voice that will be sorely missed

    The news that doyen BBC correspondent Charles Wheeler has died is a sad day for journalism.

  • 13 Jun
    2008
    Rowan Williams to attend funeral of UK religion journalist

    Two senior Anglican archbishops are to be present at the funeral service at Llandaff Cathedral in Wales for the UK religious affairs writer and broadcaster Christopher Morgan - who tragically took his own life recently.

  • 29 Nov
    2007
    Prize-winning writer describes pitfalls of modern reporting on religion

    Journalists writing stories on religion that are then put into other languages face constant pitfalls of being 'lost in translation', says the editor who has won the John Templeton Award for the European Religion Writer of the Year.

  • 25 Jun
    2007
    Media urged to question its role in 'culture of confrontation'

    Received ideas about neutrality, ‘news values’ and the place of reporting in current events must be questioned because of the changing global role of the media in an age of conflict, a commentator will suggest at a meeting in St Ethelburga's Centre, London, on 26 June 2007.

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