ABSTRACT
Peace Journalism training is beneficial to journalists because it will equip journalists with the skills to deliberately find ideas for non-violent responses from everywhere in society and bringing them to public knowledge. One of the most common mistakes international organisations conducting Peace Journalism training make is to assume that they know the training needs of journalists. Training in traditional journalism is often limited to gathering and disseminating news to the public. Peace Journalism training for journalists is hinged on the belief that well-trained journalists will inevitably present news stories that are accurate, reliable, well contextualised, and responsible. The chapter presents practical steps that can be taken to determine journalists’ training needs. An important way to determine the training needs of participants is by conducting a training needs assessment survey in other to ascertain, from the participants, the areas they need capacity building.
