ABSTRACT
Peace Journalism is examined, in this chapter, as a paradigmatic sub-field of Communication for Peace. Its chief theoretical debates are discussed, as are their connections with developments in adjacent fields, including theories of political agency, models for charting influences on news content, and the role of media in democracy. The growth of Peace Journalism is considered as an example of a peacebuilding idea in a symbolic domain that retains a key role in the public sphere. Its spread through exhortatory and pedagogical initiatives foregrounds additional and potentially problematic issues in a peacebuilding context.
