ABSTRACT

Amid the ongoing and volatile debate over the nature and potential of peace journalism, this volume presents visionary insights from some of the most prominent scholars in the fi eld. Th e signifi cant empirical studies included here will provide foundation data for communication studies. Th e contributors broaden the purview and terrain of peace journalism to include new media, and off ers essays on the eff ects and the content of global communications. In sum, the thirteenth volume of Peace and Policy deepens our empirical knowledge of the nature and eff ects of confl ict, while underscoring the increase in numbers of participants and breadth of communications.

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

chapter |20 pages

A Summer’s Pastime

Strategic Construction of the 2006 War in Lebanon

chapter |14 pages

War Journalism as Media Manipulation

Seesawing between the Second Lebanon War and the Iranian Nuclear Threat

chapter |18 pages

Video Games as War Propaganda

Can Peace Journalism Offer an Alternative Approach?