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Welcome guest,we are grateful that you have taken your time to visit our site. The RU Center for Media, Democracy, Peace and Security was established in the Department of Communication, Journalism and Media Studies out of the conviction that the center can help advance research and knowledge dissemination Read More
The Center (CMDPS) calls for a uniquely African ideology of reporting news inspired by Africanism fused with elements of good journalism to sync with Western modes of expectations. It is envisioned that research projects from the Center will help influence policy issues on media, democracy, peace and security in Kenya, East Africa, Africa and beyond.
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CMDPS VISION:
Recently the Horn of Africa has been faced with serious challenges regarding peace and security as has the African continent as a whole. Part ofthe problem, it has emerged; is that the media often covers conflict sensationally therefore fuelling more violence. This center seeks to provide an opportunity to develop new approaches in conflict/news reporting (Hybrid Peace Journalism or HPJ) in conflict prone societies like Kenya in a manner that would encourage peaceful dialogue and deliberation rather than fueling violence and hatred. HPJ seeks to explore and rationalize the possibility of Africanism and African philosophy thereof in Journalism as a radical departure from Western approaches of news production that lead to sensationalism.
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