Media and the path to peace
"This is the first book to examine in detail the roles that the news media can play in an ongoing peace process. Gadi Wolfsfeld explains how the press's role in such processes varies over time and political circumstance. He examines three major cases: the Oslo peace process between Israel and the Palestinians; the peace process between Israel and Jordan; and the process surrounding the Good Friday agreement in Northern Ireland. Wolfsfeld's central argument is that there is a fundamental contradiction between news values and the nature of a peace process. This often leads the media to play a destructive role in attempts to make peace, but variations in the political and media environment affect significantly exactly how the media behave. Wolfsfeld shows how the media played a mainly destructive role in the Oslo peace process, but were more constructive during the Israel-Jordan process and in Northern Ireland."--Jacket
Case studies (form)
xi, 271 pages ; 24 cm.
9780521831369, 9780521538626, 9786610449200, 0521831369, 0521538629, 6610449201
52348763
Building theory
the initial stages of Oslo
The Israeli media and the debate over Oslo
The Palestinians and the Israeli media
The media and the Israel-Jordan peace process
The media and the struggle for peace in Northern Ireland
The collapse of Oslo and the return to violence