This Article Full Text (PDF) References Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Alert me to new issues of the journal Add to Saved Citations Download to citation manager Request Permissions Request Reprints Add to My Marked Citations Google Scholar Articles by Terzis, G. Social Bookmarking                   What's this?

Journalism education crossing national boundaries

De-mainstreaming binary oppositions in reporting the `other'

Vesalius College Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, georgios.terzis{at}vub.ac.be

The article first introduces the concept of mainstreaming binary oppositions in reporting the `other', and the recent debate on media peacebuilding interventions, and then describes the organization, realization and evaluation of three joint journalism training workshops with Greek and Turkish students from the main university departments of communication of the two countries. The workshops were organized by the international non-governmental organization (NGO), Search for Common Ground, with funding from the European Commission, the Council of Europe and the USAID office in Ankara, and took place in both Greece and Turkey during the years 2000-2003. The results of this research places such peacebuilding journalism education interventions in the context of the professional culture and the other social determinants of journalism (McNair, 1998), and argues for a more holistic approach to media peacebuilding interventions, which would include the other market, political, professional and public aspects of media governance.

Key Words: K E Y W O R D S • conflict resolution • Greece • mainstreaming binary oppositions • peace journalism • Turkey

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    What's this?