The North American Newspapers Perspective about the Peace Treaty with the Colombian Guerrilla: FARC

Abstract

This paper is the result of the research project developed by the research group Peace, communication, and journalism by the Fundación Universitaria para el Desarrollo Humano – UNINPAHU (Colombia). The target is to describe and analyse the way two important North American newspapers approached the peace process signed in Colombia in 2016 between the Revolutionary Army Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the government leaded by President Juan Manuel Santos Calderon.
 First at all, it is important to describe the Colombia violence context to highlight the peace treaty with the FARC guerrilla after almost 60 years of war. After that, there is a description of the analysis categories and the results.
 All in all, the paper describes the Americans perception about the peace treaty, its leaders and opponents through the two-mass media published information.  This allows to enhance the debate about the role and the contribution of the mass media in peace or war context.