Dear friends and colleagues,

conflict & communication online Vol. 4, No. 2 is on the net and can be downloaded from the internet address www.cco.regener-online.de .

Best regards,
Wilhelm Kempf

Table of contents:

Conflict journalism and the audience: Framing, comprehension and response I

Samuel Peleg & Eithan Alimi
A Palestinian State - Yes or No? Constructing political discourse in the Israeli print news media - An experimental design

Wilhelm Kempf
Two experiments focusing on de-escalation oriented coverage of post-war conflicts

Juan Lallave
The accectability of arguments in favour and against the Iraq War

Non-thematic contributions

Lydia Eckstein Jackson & Jennifer L. Sparr
Introducing a new scale for the measurement of moral disengagement in peace and conflict research

Book reviews

R. Hackett & Y. Zhao (eds), 2005. Democratizing Global Media: One World, Many Struggles. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

Martin Löffelholz (ed.), 2004. Krieg als Medienereignis II. Krisenkommunikation im 21. Jahrhundert. Wiesbaden: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.

Projektgruppe Friedensforschung Konstanz (ed), 2005. Nachrichtenmedien als Mediatoren von Peace Building, Demokratisierung und Versöhnung in Nachkriegsgesellschaften. Berlin: regener.

Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Kempf
Department of Psychology
University of Konstanz
D-78457 Konstanz
Germany