Communicating With the Other: Peace Journalism as a Form of Self-Other Relationship

Abstract

The starting point of this article is Clifford Christians' argument that peace journalism presumes a liberal-contractual self and that it must transform its philosophy of the human, where the liberal self be exorcised and replaced by a relational self. In this article, the author discusses what the relational self is, how differently it can be conceptualized from the liberal-contractual self, and what difference it would make in terms of conflict reporting to presume a relational self instead of a liberal-contractual self.