ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the main issues and theories about media and peace-building before moving on to their implications for policy debates and case studies. Media theorization has connected production of such otherness with conflict. The discussion for UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) arose out of the Conference for Allied Ministers for Education that began to meet in London in 1942. UNESCO was one of the international organizations in the World Summit for an Information Society, which began in 1998 as an International Telecommunication Union initiative to examine "digital divide" issues and to consider information society ideas as broadly as possible. The basic problem regarding ethics is that they vary from society to society, as evident in the New World Information and Communication Order debate. Johan Galtung's work on peace journalism, highlighted earlier, also seeks to move beyond negative journalism.
