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Exploring Peace Journalism : A workshop
Peace Journalism is a new approach to reporting conflict that is a fairer, broader and more accurate way of framing stories. It does not advocate being biased to one side of the conflict. Leading peace journalists, Annabel McGoldrick and Jake Lynch point out that while peace journalism entails that reporters and editors make choices – of not just what stories to report but also how to report them, this does not mean journalists must forego objectivity or turn a blind eye to violence. Rather they must place the violence into context, framing a story to not only emphasize the bloodshed but also to explain the reasons for its cause, shed light on the invisible effects of conflict, and encourage an understanding of the issues behind the hostility. Instead of focusing merely on flashpoints of overt violence in a conflict, media reportage must highlight the need, and efforts being made, to build peace in a conflict-affected region. The two-day WISCOMP workshop was conceptualized to help translate the principles of peace journalism into concrete tools for action, especially in the context of media reportage on Jammu and Kashmir. With this workshop, WISCOMP initiates a new project, seeking to engage with approaches to conflict reportage in the media — focusing on Jammu and Kashmir. Acknowledging that media can powerfully shape discourses around conflict, the project seeks to explore alternative media frameworks that could contribute to promoting peace in the region.
Facilitating interaction between
media students
The workshop was designed to allow
movement from the theoretical to the practical. A session on peace journalism
and conflict theory was built into the program to anchor the discussions in the
theory of conflict analysis and conflict transformation. It helped draw
attention to con The workshop encouraged participants to develop their own toolkit, taking cognizance of the challenges that a journalist constantly faces while reporting from a conflict area. Lynch and McGoldrick’s film, News from the Holy Land, was an important part of the workshop pedagogy that helped in the transition from the “what” to the “how.” The roundtable discussion on Challenges from the Field brought together journalists from the print media, television and radio, who have reported from Jammu and Kashmir. The students were also provided with an opportunity to interact with leading television journalist Nidhi Razdan of NDTV, who shared her experiences and learnings while working on a special series of news stories in Pakistan-Administered Kashmir.
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journalists from Jammu and Kashmir, and Pakistan, the workshop aimed at
developing a new media lexicon for regions affected by protracted conflict. Some
of the resource persons at the workshop included Head of News of Radio Kashmir,
Bashir Malik; Islamabad-based journalist and researcher; Zafarullah Khan;
Karachi-based journalist Ishtiaq Ali Mehkri; faculty members from universities
in Jammu and Kashmir – Nasir Mirza, Nitish Arora and Tarique Masoodi; and former
television journalist Alpana Kishore, among various other journalists from
mainstream English national dailies. 
flict mapping exercises as important journalistic tools to
analyze the conflict and the multiple stakeholders therein.