Gadi Wolfsfeld lectures in the department of political science and the department of communication, at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. His comparative study of the media in the Oslo peace process, Israel-Jordan negotiations, and Northern Ireland, Media and the Path to Peace, will be published by Cambridge University Press in November 2003.

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The role of the news media in violent conflicts, from Iraq and Afghanistan to the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, is a major concern to combatants, publics, and media professionals alike. A scholar who has closely followed news coverage of the second Palestinian ‘intifada’ which broke out in September 2000 draws three significant lessons from the way the issue has been depicted on both sides.