Peace efforts are invisible in the news media.
We want to change that.

Making Peace Visible brings together journalists and peacebuilders to amplify stories of peacebuilding, making peace efforts more visible, understood, and supported in the public sphere.

Image by Sara Terry from the film Fambul Tok

On the Podcast:

Disrupting Peace: How to be president if you don't have a military

with Carlos Alvarado Quesada and Jorge Vargas Cullell

This episode from our friends at Disrupting Peace explores Costa Rica’s approach to domestic security and the ways that having a military can increase violence and instability in a country. Featuring the former president of Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado Quesada.

Bringing journalists and peacebuilders
together

MPV was founded by Jamil Simon, peace activist, filmmaker, and winner of the Luxembourg Peace Prize, to help challenge the prevailing narrative of conflict in today’s news cycles.

Our Goals

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To improve the overall public narrative about peace

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To expand global coverage of peace and reconciliation efforts in the media

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To inspire a wider range of approaches to conflict reporting

“Finally! Thanks to Making Peace Visible, there is at long last an outlet that covers the world's conflict interrupters — people working in the shadows, with relentless creativity, to prevent violence. This is fascinating, important and rare.” 

— Amanda Ripley, journalist and bestselling author of High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out

“I am so impressed with all that MPV has been accomplishing! The podcast series is truly wonderful, and I really loved the first issue of NUANCE. Both represent such high-caliber storytelling at a time when voices for peace are being drowned out.”

— Melanie Greenberg
Managing Director, Peacebuilding, Humanity United

Our Projects

  • Our Podcast

    Critical conversations with key players on the frontlines of peace efforts and the journalists who report on them.

    LISTEN

  • Events

    Online and in-person events serving the informational needs of our key audiences of journalists and peacebuilders.

    ENGAGE

  • NUANCE

    A seasonal publication focusing on creative solutions for bringing peace stories into greater public awareness.

    READ

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