Assessing the Agency in Media Narratives for Community-based Peacebuilding

Autor/innen

  • Philip Onguny School of Conflict Studies at Saint Paul University in Ottawa
  • Taylor Gillies Saint Paul University in Ottawa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22032/dbt.40624

Schlagworte:

community-based peacebuilding, media agency, community media, conflict resolution, media elite-capture

Abstract

This article assesses the dominant debates about the agency in media narratives for community-based peacebuilding. By locating the common challenges facing the agency in media narratives for the purposes of community-based peacebuilding, the article contributes to the ongoing debates on ways in which media discourses can be tailored toward the prevention, management, and resolution of conflicts between, within and among communities. This is predicated on the assumption that conflict is a function of discourse, and that media narratives take active part in the construction, negotiation, and circulation of discourse, all of which inform the degree of congruity between news content and expected outcomes. The primary objective of this article is therefore to generate conceptual and theoretical debates on the agentic and formative roles media narratives play in community-based peacebuilding.

Autor/innen-Biografien

Philip Onguny, School of Conflict Studies at Saint Paul University in Ottawa

Philip Onguny is an Assistant Professor in the School of Conflict Studies at Saint Paul University in Ottawa. His research revolves around ethnopolitical violence in sub-Saharan Africa, including the role of media in conflict transformation and peacebuilding. He is the co-editor of Lutte contre le terrorisme en Af-rique: Acte de bienveillance ou prétexte géostratégique?, published by the University of Montreal Press.

Taylor Gillies, Saint Paul University in Ottawa

Taylor Gillies holds an MA in Conflict Studies from Saint Paul University in Ottawa.

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Onguny, P., & Gillies, T. (2020). Assessing the Agency in Media Narratives for Community-based Peacebuilding. Global Media Journal - German Edition, 9(2). https://doi.org/10.22032/dbt.40624

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