University of Wollongong
This is a selection of outstanding project reports from the third-year subject "Media, war and peace". Each report consists of an information pack (or brief) and a dialogue, with this sort of general direction: undertake a project involving a case study using a war/peace/violence/nonviolence theory or concept covered in the subject. Some report packs or dialogues are joint for two or three students.
Assignment task
Prepare an information pack for an organisation or community members to help them understand the portrayal or non-portrayal of issues concerning war, peace, violence or nonviolence in the media. For details see pages 16-17 of the subject outline for 2015.
Caitlin Osborne and Danielle Merlino on capital punishment and two case studies.
Caitlin's information pack (online)
Danielle's information pack, also here
Caitlin and Danielle's joint dialogue
Casey Behringer on conflict in the Congo: information pack and dialogue
Cassie Doyle on the Bali boycott: information pack and dialogue
Assignment task
Prepare an information pack for an organisation or community members to help them understand the portrayal or non-portrayal of issues concerning war, peace, violence or nonviolence in the media. For details see pages 16-17 of the subject outline for 2014.
Abi Too on riots and the Kenyan crisis
In two parts: information pack (online) and dialogue
Erik Cassella on massacres and the Sandy Hook school shooting
In two parts: information pack (online) and dialogue
Assignment task
Prepare an information pack for an organisation or community members to help them understand the portrayal or non-portrayal of issues concerning war, peace, violence or nonviolence in the media. For details see pages 7-8 of the subject outline for 2013.
Andy Washington on racism and asylum seekers
In two parts: information pack (online) and dialogue
Douglas Simkin on protest music and the Vietnam war
In two parts: information pack (online) and dialogue
Jon Maxwell on genocide and Rwanda
In two parts: information pack (slide show) and dialogue
Sophie Bracken on lying and the Iraq war
Information pack and dialogue both available at http://lyingandtheiraqwar.wordpress.com
Assignment task
Prepare an information pack for an organisation or community members to help them understand the portrayal or non-portrayal of issues concerning war, peace, violence or nonviolence in the media. For details see pages 7-8 of the subject outline for 2012.
Brittany Reeves on backfire and child soldiers
In two parts: information pack (website) and dialogue
Jess Pyers on genocide and Uganda
In two parts: information pack (slide show) and dialogue
Mel Tolnay on peacekeeping and the Solomon Islands
Information pack and dialogue both available at http://peacekeepingsolomonislands.wordpress.com/
Richard Hamlet on nonviolent action and Nashville
In two parts: information pack (slide show) and dialogue
Assignment task
Prepare an information pack for an organisation or community members to help them understand the portrayal or non-portrayal of issues concerning war, peace, violence or nonviolence in the media. For details see pages 7-8 of the subject outline for 2011.
Elizabeth Lathlean on reintegration and Congolese child soldiers, in the form of a brochure and dialogue
Jordan Tredinnick on genocide and Cambodia
In two parts: information pack in the form of a blog (http://www.unspokengenocide.blogspot.com/) and dialogue
Kate Walsh on genocide and Rwanda
In two parts: information pack (slide show) and dialogue
Linda Zhang on grammar of war discourse and the Iraq war
In two parts: information pack (slide show) and dialogue
Assignment task
Prepare an information pack for an organisation or community members to help them understand the portrayal or non-portrayal of issues concerning war, peace, violence or nonviolence in the media. For details see pages 8-9 of the subject outline for 2010.
David Copperfield on backfire and the policing of protest
In two parts: information pack (slide show) and dialogue
Julia Najjar on torture and Abu Ghraib
In three parts: information pack, supplementary image panel and dialogue
Lisa Santos on aggression and violent video games
In two parts: information pack (slide show) and dialogue
Assignment task
Prepare a response pack for an organisation for dealing with possible comments or queries from the media, clients, employees/employers or some other group. For details see page 11 of the subject outline for 2008.
Cara Pring on civil disorder and the Macquarie Fields riots
In two parts: response pack (slide show) and dialogue
Esther Johnson and Julia Beasy on social justice and human trafficking
In several parts: joint response pack slide show with music backing
Esther's dialogue
Julia's dialogue
Judith Knam on violence and aged care
In two parts: response pack (slide show) and dialogue
Mona Forghani on positive peace and Aboriginal Australians
In two parts: response pack (slide show) and dialogue
Rachel Stanton on aggression and violent video games
In two parts: response pack (slide show) and poster, cover and dialogue
Rebecca Melrose on peacebuilding and East Timor
Tess Hadley on enlightenment and Thich Nhat Hanh
In two parts: brochure and dialogue and calendar
Assignment task
Prepare a brief for a policy, position or campaign. The brief is for internal use by an organisation, such as a business, church, government body, charity, trade union or activist group. For details see page 13 of the subject outline for 2007.
Abby Witenden on Rwanda and genocide: brief and joint dialogue with Amy and Charlotte
Amanda Madruga on Darfur and positive peace
Amy Coleman on Rwanda and genocide: brief and joint dialogue with Abby and Charlotte
Ben Morgan on the Cronulla riots and peace journalism
Charlotte Connor on Rwanda and genocide: brief and joint dialogue with Abby and Amy
Jenny Stevenson on the Iraq war and backfire
Justine Hinwood and Spencer Reynolds on Abu Ghraib and torture: slide show and dossier and dialogue
Rachael Brown on Indigenous Australians and reconciliation
Stacey Lowcock on Burma and nonviolence
Assignment task
Write an opinion piece in the style of a feature article in the "Opinion" page in The Australian or the "Comment" page in the Sydney Morning Herald. Follow this with three letters to the editor responding to the article. For details see page 4 of the subject notes for 2005.
Adam Zuchetti on Rwanda and genocide
Alana Kellam on No Petrol Day and communication/nonviolence
Alex Cousins on Rwanda and genocide
Angela Virtue on the 24 September US antiwar protest and communication/nonviolence
Hilary Smith on the Rwandan genocide and backfire
Holly Kerr on Hurricane Katrina and disaster
Jessica Lowe on the 1999 Seattle protests and communication/nonviolence
Katherine Hall on the 2005 Andijan massacre in Uzbekistan and backfire
Magaly Rohé on the Madrid bombing and lying
Tarryn Cooper on Rwanda and genocide
Assignment task
For details see page 4 of the subject notes for 2004.
Bernadette Kennedy on backfire and Iraq censorship
Clem Velasco on nonviolence, communication and Iraq
Joe Ringer on deciphering violence and the Chechen conflict
Keryn McNeill on deciphering violence and Jackass
Matt Snelson on backfire and the Madrid bombings
Rene Chambers on just war theory and Iraq
Shelley Lee on backfire and Iraq prison abuse
