Global Realignments: Understanding Peace Process Interventions Through News

This report describes the methodology and findings from analysis of in-country and global media perceptions of the interventions of international actors in peace-related activities. The purpose of the study was to explore whether media attention relating to peacemaking or building initiatives, was shifting in terms of the global players involved, and the positive or negative sentiment with which those interventions were viewed. The research described in this report uses GDELT as a source of data. GDELT has codes for news stories that cover cooperative, non-conflict peacemaking or peacebuilding activities. Data on the number of such stories, together with a measure of the sentiment of the stories, make GDELT potentially valuable in assessing the way that news sources perceive interventions related to peace processes.

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