Title: News Reporting and Its Impact on Conflict:
A gathering of scholars
Conflict is inevitable and
pervasive, and is often the subject of news reportin
Yet, what is the impact of media
coverage on conflict? Does it help or hinder the capacity of people, societies,
or nations to address their problems constructively? Or does it escalate
conflict in a way that is destructive?
To date, few scholars have even
begun to raise such questions. As communication technology continues to expand,
with information and images spread instantly throughout the world, and as the
means of conflict become more powerful and divisive, the need to understand the
impact of news reporting on conflict takes on greater urgen
In this gathering, the Center
for the Study of Conflict, Law & the Media brings together leading scholars
from a variety of disciplines — journalism, law, conflict resolution,
communication, and psychology — to discuss these and other questions relating
to news reporting and coverage of conflict. In
initiating a new path of scholarly inquiry, we strive to cultivate a
research agenda for further study, and to improve and
elevate journalists’ coverage of conflict.
Agend
Friday, September 15, 2006. Room 332A, Hulston Hall
8:30–9:00 Gathering Convenes
Welcome
Dean Mills, Dean, MU
Journalism
R. Lawrence Dessem,
Dean, MU Law
Opening Comments
Richard C. Reuben, MU Law
9:00–10:15 Interdisciplinary Foundation
News and Conflict: Traditional Notions of Journalism,
Revolutionary Ways of Reporting
Michael Jonathan Grinfeld, MU Journalism
Social Conflict: Some Basic Principles
Dean G. Pruitt, George Mason University
What Journalists Need to Know about Conflict
(Dispute) Resolution
Leonard L. Riskin, MU
La
Facilitator: John Lande, MU La
10:15–10:30 Break and Refreshment
10:30–11:45
Communication and the Messages of Conflic
Changes in Conflict Framing in the News Coverage of
an Environmental Conflict
Linda L. Putnam, Texas A &
Communication Channels and Urban Conflict: A
Cross-Scale and Spatio-Temporal Perspective
Sandra Ball-Rokeach, USC
Sorin A. Matei, Purdue
The Double-Edged Sword of Media Coverage of Social
Protest: A
Case Study of the 2006 Pro-Immigration Movement
Douglas M. McLeod,
Wisconsi
Facilitator: Susan Hackley, Harvar
12:00–1:15 Lunch
Welcome
Pam Johnson, Director,
Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute
The Importance and Challenge of Interdisciplinary
Research
Brian L. Foster, MU Provost
1:45–3:15 Media Coverage and Effects on Conflic
What's Wrong and What's Right with News Coverage of Interethnic
Conflict
Hemant Shah, Wisconsin
Public Dispute Resolution and the Manipulation of the
Media
Philip J. Harter, MU La
The Strategic Management
of Conflict
Glen T. Cameron, MU
Journalism
Facilitator: Stephanie Craft, MU Journalis
3:15–3:30 Break and Refreshments
3:45–5:00 Media, Conflict, and Democracy
Joining Media, Conflict, and Democracy
Esther Thorson, MU Journalis
Civic Angst over Conflict as a Paradigm for News: Is
the Profession’s Creative Cupboard Really So Bare?
Edmund B. Lambeth, MU Journalism
The Press, the Rule of Law, and Deliberative
Democracy
Richard C. Reuben, MU Law
Facilitator: James H. Levin, MU La
5:30–7:30 Reception and Dinner at the Donald W. Reynolds Alumni Center
Toast, Michael Jonathan
Grinfeld
Saturday, September 1
9:00–10:15 International Conflic
Remarks
Handy Williamson, MU
Vice Provost for International Programs
and
Strategic Initiative
Media, Memory, and Forgiveness: Case Studies in
South Africa and
Argentina’s Conflict Resolution Process
Byron
Scott, Carolina Escudero & Anya Litvak, MU Journalis
The Media, Expansion of Discourse, and Conflict
Philip M. Seib, Marquett
The Media and International Conflict:
Methodological Issues
Eytan Gilboa, Bar-Ilan, US
Facilitator: Stuart H. Loory, MU Journalis
10:15–10:30
Break
10:30–12:00 Moving Forward with a Research Agenda
Facilitator: Esther Thorson, MU
Journalism
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