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THE MEDIA PEACE AWARDS recognise those in the media whose work increases co-operation not conflict, tolerance not tension.  Aussie short comedy film is nominated for a United Nations Media Peace Prize.  ” The Media Peace Awards will be announced in October 2004For production stills, further information or interviews, please contact Anny Slater on +61 (0)411 283 776 or press@moondancepictures.  A NEW PLYMOUTH trust has won a premier award in the Internet category of the 1999 Media Peace Awards.  Judging convenor, film-maker Ray Waru says, ‘From their inception, the Media Peace Awards have attracted the best work from the best people … they are people who help us to understand the complicated forces that make up our communities.  Among the possible points of departure are that the media should be involved in the promotion of peace; that peace coverage is hindered by the absence of a peace discourse in the professional media repertoire; and that the creation, development, and marketing of a media peace discourse should be included in the current research agenda.

Research on the three major strategies used by the media in the coverage of peace ? Framing Peace Coverage in War Discourse; Trivialization; and Ritualization ? suggests that the latter fits this conceptual framework better than the others, and thus is more suitable for the development of a media peace discourse.  Good examples include the media events and the textual analysis genres, as they are particularly related to professional effects; narrative techniques; and performance styles; and concepts such as ?master-frames? and ?super-texts? ? major motifs, composed of many smaller frames or sub-texts ? to suggest the potential contents of a media peace discourse.

Finally, it is proposed that research and development efforts of media peace coverage along these lines should include work on adapting the current powerful status of the media in international relations to overcome negative peace-related attitudes; on increasing the news-value of peace coverage rather than undertaking missionary efforts to change media structures and professional codes of conduct; on devising professional policies that might reduce media self-manipulation and similar pressures; and on creating and ?marketing? a media peace discourse with satisfactory news value based on innovative projects, and on the appropriate application of existing findings.  October 24, 2008 Article from:  Australian Associated Press AN ABC television program about two traumatised Vietnam veterans on a mission to deactivate mines in Cambodia has won an United Nations Media Peace Award.  Victorian Minister for Senior Victorians Lisa Neville tonight presented the 2008 UN Media Peace Award for depicting positive images of ageing and older people to ABC TV’s Australian Story for their portrayal of the pair.

” The United Nations Media Peace Awards aim to promote understanding and awareness about humanitarian and social justice issues, and the values of peace, cooperation and mediation rather than conflict and violence.  Richard began his career as a journalist; learned the skills of documentary production with the ABC, and won the TV Logie award, and United Nations Media Peace Prize for his first film.