Course: Positive Peace Reporting


This course 8 week course (plus one month) is scheduled to run from Wednesday 8 March 2023, 2pm KL

This course aims to teach the principles of the T4P initiative (see pg 3), to develop solutions based reporting skills and to promote the T4P initiative through traditional news and current affairs reports as well as social media and promotional content.

As part of UNESCO’s T4P Project the ABU Media Academy has developed this course in conjunction with UNESCO’s Together for Peace initiative.

Registration Please register by Wednesday 1 March 2023. Before applying, please take note of Selection & Prerequisites which you can find below.

The Positive Peace Reporting Course is based on the previously run Peace Journalism: Together for Peace Course, and is desinged as a self-paced online learning opportunity. It includes an introductory webinar run by Olya Booyar,
Head of Radio at ABU, where participants will be introduced to the course components.

T4P consists of seven modules
Module 1 – Introduction to course
Module 2 – Understanding Positive Peace
Module 3 – Constructive Solutions Focused Journalism
Module 4 – Promoting Positive Peace
Module 5 – Developing Positive Peace Content
Module 6 – Final submission and evaluation
Module 7 –  Evaluation


Selection & Prerequisites
Participants are to have at least one year’s experience in reporting or producing.

Participants must be able to use computer and/or smart phone applications for video conferencing, reporting, editing, production and social media.

This course will be conducted in English, so participants need to be able to understand and speak English at a functional level. Reports or promos made during the course can be made in the participants’ own language.

Participants must commit to attend webinar lectures and complete course activities as required.

Devices should have good connectivity to the internet and/or mobile data and access to the ABU Learning Platform should be allowed through any IT security or firewalls.

The self-paced course will be available from 08 March to 08 June 2023.

For more information or to express your interest in this course, please email academy@abu.org.my – subject: Positive Peace Reporting

You may also register directly here.