News and Community Conflict: examining the role of journalism in local conflict and conflict resolution

该项目将使澳大利亚处于新闻和冲突研究的前沿。它将有助于对当地新闻和解决冲突的可能性进行评估，以促进关于战时媒体的更广泛的国际辩论。这项研究将有利于澳大利亚新闻专业，新闻教育工作者，决策者和参与解决地方和社区间冲突的组织。一份便于查阅的报告将为媒体在冲突局势中的作用提供案例研究、战略和建议。通过对新闻受众和新闻影响的复杂的文化理解，这项研究将有助于澳大利亚新闻媒体的变革和改进。

The project will place Australia at the leading edge of research on news and conflict. It will contribute an evaluation of the local possibilities for news and conflict resolution to wider international debates on the media in wartime. The research will benefit the Australian journalism profession, journalism educators, policymakers and organisations involved in addressing local level and intercommunal conflicts. An accessible report will provide case studies, strategies and recommendations for the media's role in situations of conflict. By developing a complex, cultural understanding of news audiences and news impacts the research will contribute to processes of change and improvement within the Australian news media.