Abstract
This chapter examines how diaspora media discursively construct domestic conflicts that influence the resolution of those conflicts. Combining insights from the conflict sensitive journalism theory and Michel Foucault’s Discourse Theory, the chapter proffers an African, particularly Zimbabwean, perspective on the role of the diaspora media on domestic conflicts. It analyses peace and conflict discourses in selected English language Zimbabwean diaspora media outlets using negotiations leading to Zimbabwe’s Government of National Unity (GNU) (2008) as a lens for this analysis. How diaspora media discursively constructed the negotiations, whether they undermined or enhanced the conflict resolution process, and if so to what extent are questions germane to this exploration. The chapter contends that, although the diaspora media accentuated conflict at the expense of peace discourses their role in domestic conflicts is ambivalent. The chapter sheds insights into the way in which conflict-generated diaspora media become entangled in conflict resolution and peacebuilding processes in fragile societies.
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