ANTONIO C. S. ROSA – Peace Journalism
ANNOUNCEMENTS, 30 Mar 2026
Georgia Kelly | Praxis Peace Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service
Event Date: Fri 3 Apr, 7pm (GMT), 11am California time
This program is on Zoom and LIVE from Porto, Portugal
Antonio C. S. Rosa (born 8 Feb 1946) is a pioneer in Peace Journalism and the editor and co-founder with Norwegian peace negotiator, Johan Galtung, of TRANSCEND Media Service in 2008. TMS is an online Solutions-oriented Peace Journalism platform. Peace Journalism looks at the whole picture of reporting and questions where bias is part of the stories we read and see. Journalists often act as gatekeepers by allowing some facts to be published while others are omitted, especially those that might contradict an accepted position.
For instance, a bias that shows only one perspective of a conflict — as if all conflicts and wars are about good vs. evil, black and white scenarios — precludes any desire to understand the position of the adversary. Even to ask such questions can be labeled unpatriotic or sympathizing with the enemy. In such biased frames, negotiations are not possible. Peace journalism is about demonstrating where and how negotiations can work and why we need to transcend the “with us or against us” mindset.
The Galtung/TRANSCEND Conflict Diagram
TRANSCEND Method
Rosa is the editor of the book, Peace Journalism: 80 Galtung Editorials on Peace and War, is on the Global Advisory Board of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies and is also on the Board of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment. He is the recipient of the Psychologists for Social Responsibility’s 2017 Peace Prize for Psychology of Peace and Social Justice. He completed his B.A., M.A. and PhD in the fields of Communication-Journalism, Political Science and Peace Studies in International Relations from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Rosa now lives in Porto, Portugal after 50 years in the USA and in ten other countries, since he left his native Brazil in 1975.
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