This document emphasises the vital role the media can play in Conflict Resolution and Peace Making globally, nationally and locally. It aims to support journalists in new and rewarding career paths, where their unique contribution to problem-solving is recognised and embraced.
Journalists benefit from having a conflict-resolving approach to their work.
This approach enhances the consumers interest in media reporting and analysis. Cynicism and disenchantment about the media can be overcome with a conflict-resolving approach. There is little doubt of the need for Conflict Resolution in the media. The rapidity of profound political, social and environmental change leaves societies in massive and unresolved conflict, while at hand is the under-utilised resource of the media, whose help is too seldom sought. Sometimes, with Conflict Resolution prompting, conflict participants can be transformed into conflict-resolving partners.