The media leans toward negative reporting, and that rewards the perpetrators of violence. Peace initiatives seldom make headlines. Due to superficial reporting by Western newspapers and broadcasters, the public does not understand the context of many conflicts. These are the views of the peace researcher Johan Galtung as he spoke with freelance journalist Claudia Isabel Rittel.

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