The World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) has released a DVD on the theme of communicating for peace. The DVD is an educational resource for peace advocates and journalists about the importance of telling stories to communicate peace.

The DVD, produced in collaboration with United Church of Canada and the Anglican Church of Canada, is built around five sub-themes. Each section offers interviews and commentaries from experts in the fields of peace journalism, communication rights, and gender justice and introduces communication concepts and analysis. The sections also include case studies by rights advocates who work in conflict situations, offering practical approaches to putting those concepts into action and questions encouraging engagement with the issues.

Sections include:


Peace journalism: communicating for peace in an interview with peace journalist Jake Lynch from Australia and a peace educator from Brazil, Marcelo Rezende Guimarães. It also contains an interview with investigative journalist Amy Goodman.

Telling the story: speaking for peace, in which a women's rights advocate based in Uganda, Ruth Ojiambo-Ochieng, speaks about storytelling and empowerment as she shares her experiences in conflict-torn Northern Uganda, Liberia, and Sudan. The section also focuses on media presentations of conflict in the United States and communicating peace in the Middle East.

Media and gender justice: interviews with United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)’s interim Executive Director Joanne Sandler and gender and media justice researcher Margaret Gallagher. There are also three case studies focusing on media and gender in the Caribbean, Latin America, and Pacific.

Communication rights and peace: interviews with Cees Hamelink and Australia-based professor of communication (also former WACC staff member) Pradip Thomas. The section further presents case studies of Aboriginal rights and communication, as well as Haitian workers and the media in the Dominican Republic.

Biblical insights on the theme of communication and peace: interview with Rev. Robert Haverluck, a professor of theology at the University of Winnipeg, Canada, responding to the question: What does the Bible say? He is known for his religious cartoons which have been published in both secular and religious publications.

WACC: Media Action newsletter, 292.