ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the debates and review some of the literature on war and peace including: definitions of war and terrorism, conflict resolution, information management, definitions and role of journalists sources, the role of technology, witnessing, and the safety of journalists. During World War II, journalists wrote stories about soldiers’ experiences in battle and about the more mundane tasks soldiers undertook during their time at the front. Over the 20th and 21st centuries, new technologies have transformed the sending of news from war zone to editors “back home.” The centralized and large infrastructure needed for dispatching stories during World War II has been replaced by decentralized and portable media, such as the internet and mobile and satellite forms of communication available at the end of the 20th and 21st centuries. The danger for journalists is that they can become the third party, a role that is legitimately reserved for conflict mediators, rather than reporters.
