Conflict management through media: Contributory and partisan frames in socio-environmental conflict coverage

Abstract

This article analyzes socio-environmental conflicts in Latin America through a conflict transformation lens, highlighting the contributory role of the media as a secondary- and third-party actor in dialogues that address intractable conflicts. This article reviews journalistic coverage of war indicators posited by Johan Galtung, and modified indicators by Lynch and McGoldrick, finding that indicators require further adaptation to analyze socio-environmental conflicts. Using frame theory, this work developed indicators for contributory frames and for the partisan frames. With those indicators the author analyzed the regional and national media and the stages of conflict cycle in three socio-environmental conflicts in Peru.

Keywords

• Peace journalism
• Socio-environmental conflicts
• Conflict transformation
• frames of conflicts
• Media and Conflict
• Media coverage of conflicts