
Dr Antonio Silva
Principal Advisor
Up to 100,000 people are killed each year as a result of violent conflict. But this is only one part of the human cost. Impact on families and communities can be felt decades later. Millions of individual decisions underpin these tragic impacts: people decide either to stoke hatred or to confront it, to fight or to lay down weapons, and to forgive past conflicts or to repeat them.
Mass media and propaganda has often been used as a tool to generate hatred and perpetuate conflict. The purpose of this review was to understand whether it can also be a tool for maintaining and rebuilding peace. We reviewed the evidence of mass media’s impact on peacebuilding behaviours to identify if (and how) it works, and to suggest approaches for harnessing mass media in the future.
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