Conflict Sensitive Journalism: Moving Towards a Holistic Framework

This background paper was produced for the conference on Conflict Sensitive Journalism in Nairobi, 3 – 4 february 2011. The paper seeks to provide insight and inspiration for an update of the IMS Conflict Sensitive Journalism Handbook and includes a summary of the development of conflict sensitive journalism over the last decade.

This has not, by any means, intended to be a comprehensive examination of CSJ but rather a suggestion that CSJ cannot and should not be considered as an isolated activity but rather that the tenets of CSJ are affected by the environment in which it is practiced on a daily basis around the world.