Some corporations have offered to help fund the project. It is too soon to evaluate the impact and outcome of this effort. Radio Metro also transmits information about the various Peace Committees. Evaluation Strengths Peace media can have a significant impact on the conflict situation because it reaches a broad public audience. Reconciliation-oriented radio and television programs can contribute to and build support for efforts to prevent or mitigate conflict and can counter abuse of the media to incite violence.
Peace media can present issues fairly and make alternative sources of information available.
Taking action against hate radio may require high-level political decisions and involves concerns about the national sovereignty of states involved in domestic conflicts and perpetrators' right to freedom of speech. Information sources can be co-opted by elite ethnic or other partisan groups. References and resources Peter Gastrow, Search for Common Ground. Baumann, Melissa and Hannes Siebert. Robert Karl Manoff, Center for War, Peace, and the News Media, New York University.