Radio Talkshows for Peacebuilding: A Guide
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/187414/36
Author
Ross Howard
Francis Rolt
Publication Date 2006
Summary
According to this guide, radio talk shows are becoming the most
influential form of media and a great many of them risk doing more harm
than good by using conflicts and disagreements to attract listeners. They
can intensify the conflict under discussion, and rather than inform
listeners, leave them angry or fearful, or with the sense that the
conflict will go on forever. They can make destructive conflict seem the
inevitable response to all disagreements and destabilise communities.
This guidebook is designed to help talk show presenters and producers
learn some new skills to deal with conflict effectively on air. According
to the authors of this guide talk shows require diversity, spontaneity and
flexibility, so there are no absolute rules about how to discuss conflict
in a more constructive manner. The guide offers techniques and skills to
enable presenters to talk about conflict in a way which is interesting and
informative, which offers positive alternatives, and which holds an
audience.
Overall the guidebook includes:
* a how-to guide to analysing conflict;
* tools and examples of how radio professionals can help build a
peaceful society; and
* descriptions and definitions of the different types of talkshows and
their various strengths and Weaknesses.
The guide contains examples which are drawn from African countries,
however, the issues, discussions and skills are also relevant to a much
wider spectrum of countries. The guide was developed at a workshop
organised by the Radio for Peacebuilding, Africa project in Bujumbura,
Burundi in April 2005 which was attended by twenty-one sub-Saharan African
talk show presenters and producers from commercial, state, public and
private radio stations.
This second edition of the guide was developed out of a series of focus
group meetings with broadcasters and experts in Sierra Leone, Burundi and
Belgium. Their recommendations led the publishers to make several changes
to the structure of the guides - notably to add a section on conflict.
Click here to download the guide in PDF format in English.
Click here to download the guide in PDF format in French.
Publisher
Search for Common Ground
Number of Pages
36
Languages
English and French
Contact
Radio for Peacebuilding Africa
Search for Common Ground
Rue Belliard 205, box 13
B-1040
Brussels
Belgium
Tel: +32 (0)2 234 36 74
Fax: +32 (0)2 732 30 33
Radio for Peacebuilding Africa website
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Source
Radio for Peacebuilding Africa website on April 4 2006.
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