{"id":120359,"date":"2018-10-15T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T11:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=120359"},"modified":"2018-10-22T11:01:06","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T10:01:06","slug":"vatican-conference-on-peace-journalism-empathy-not-only-sympathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/10\/vatican-conference-on-peace-journalism-empathy-not-only-sympathy\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican Conference on Peace Journalism: Empathy, Not Only Sympathy"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a world in which bad news floods the media, the Vatican Dicastery for Communication holds a Conference on \u2018Peace Journalism\u2019, promoting this concept \u2013 along with the peace that comes with it. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Peace Journalism Conference, October 13th 2018. (Vatican Media)<\/p><\/div>\n

13 Oct 2018 – <\/em>Four peace journalists from Italy, Lebanon, China and Norway spoke today in an International Conference on \u201cPeace Journalism\u201d, held in and hosted by the Vatican.<\/p>\n

Professor Johan Galtung, the creator of the concept, was one of these speakers. He defines Peace Journalism as \u201ceditors and reporters making choices \u2013 about what to report, and how to report it \u2013 that create opportunities for society at large to consider and to value nonviolent responses to conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n

Four peace journalists<\/h3>\n

Galtung highlighted the definition of peace, explaining that there is \u2018violence\u2019, – which is self-explanatory; \u2018negative peace\u2019, which implies a complete lack of interaction, either peaceful or violent, between two parties; and \u2018positive peace\u2019, which means interactions that involve \u201clinking good to good\u201d.<\/p>\n

Rey-Sheng Her stressed the importance of \u2018constructive journalism\u2019. He explained that journalists must make a concise effort at solving problems and not simply \u201cdigging them out\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Read also: ‘Peace Journalism’ to help build a more peaceful world<\/a> \u2013 8 May 2018 <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Stefania Tanesini spoke of \u2018dialogic journalism\u2019. This style, adopted within the focolari movement, describes the \u201cconcrete experience of hundreds of journalists\u201d, who hope that their style will strengthen an empathetic and constructive dialogue whilst \u201cconstantly searching for peace\u201d.<\/p>\n

Vanessa Bassil was the fourth speaker. She is the founder of Media Association for Peace (MAP): the first non-governmental organisation in the Middle East, Northern Africa and Lebanon dedicated to fostering the role of media in building peace.<\/p>\n

Peace when surrounded by conflict<\/h3>\n

She explained to Marine Henriot the need for Peace Journalism in the Middle East, an area of the world which is surrounded by conflict, in which people feel the crisis, \u201cpeople are desperate, they are hopeless\u201d, she said.<\/p>\n

Bringing back hope<\/h3>\n

Vanessa believes that promoting a \u201cconstructive\u201d, \u201chopeful\u201d and \u201cinspiring\u201d journalism would bring back hope to the people. It would help them \u201cdeal with conflict in a more inspiring way, in a more constructive way\u201d. \u201cAnd thus\u201d, she concluded, \u201cwe will have a society that is more safe, that is more secure and that is more peaceful.\u201d<\/p>\n

She also addressed the Syrian refugee crisis. Lebanon, with a population of 4 million, is currently hosting 2 million Syrian refugees fleeing conflict and hardship. \u201cThere is a lot of conflict between the host community and the refugees\u201d, she said.<\/p>\n

Positivity in negative situations<\/h3>\n

\u201cWe have decided to report positive stories about refugees\u201d. By going out and meeting refugees living in camps, her and her colleagues tell \u201cstories that give hope, that give inspiration\u201d.<\/p>\n

Vanessa uses the example of a lady they spoke to who fled Syria with her family. She told them about her \u201cstory of survival, of strength, of how she was able to do all of this alone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Empathy, not only sympathy<\/h3>\n

This, according to Vanessa Bassil, shows that they are not only \u201cvictims\u201d but \u201cindependent people, capable of doing and of surviving\u201d. And she chooses to transmit this through \u201cempathy, and not only sympathy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 vaticannews.va<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

13 Oct 2018 – Four peace journalists spoke today in an International Conference on \u201cPeace Journalism\u201d, at the Vatican. Professor Johan Galtung, the creator of the concept and one of the speakers, defines PJ as \u201ceditors and reporters making choices \u2013 about what to report, and how to report it \u2013 that create opportunities for society at large to consider and to value nonviolent responses to conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":120361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,58,41,40,62,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transcend-news","category-news","category-tms-peace-journalism","category-transcend-members","category-media","category-religion-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}