About MPV
Our Mission
Making Peace Visible (MPV) brings together journalists, media professionals, and peacebuilders to amplify and elevate stories of peacebuilding, making peace efforts more visible, understood, and supported in the public sphere.
MPV fosters a more informed and engaged civic culture that recognizes that peace is an essential pillar of democracy and human flourishing.
A U.S.-based nonprofit, MPV examines ways in which storytelling shapes perceptions of conflict, and how media can either advance or obstruct peace efforts. MPV achieves this by:
Analyzing how narratives about peace are shaped, framed, and disseminated.
Exploring how media can educate the public on the practicalities and viability of peacebuilding;
Developing and promoting innovative storytelling approaches that shift media trends from divisive narratives, to highlight effective, collaborative efforts to prevent and resolve conflicts; and
Equipping journalists and peacebuilders with the tools and strategies to tell complex stories about peacebuilding effectively
Through this interdisciplinary network, MPV strengthens how peacebuilding is communicated—making it more visible, relatable, and widely supported. In doing so, MPV catalyzes a media culture that challenges polarization and fosters public support for peace as a practical and urgent priority.
Our Vision
Building Bridges: Journalism and Peacebuilding
At Making Peace Visible (MPV), we envision a world where peacebuilding is recognized as a powerful, practical, and essential response to conflict—one that is understood, valued, and resourced by the public.
Media is critical in shaping how societies perceive conflict and peace. Yet, peacebuilding efforts often remain invisible, while war and division dominate headlines. Until peace is seen as a viable alternative, it will remain underappreciated and therefore underfunded.
To change this, we are forging deep connections between journalists, media professionals, and peacebuilders to work together to transform the public narrative on peace. By elevating nuanced storytelling, fostering cross-sector dialogue, and equipping journalists with the tools to report on conflict responsibly, we seek to shift global media trends away from sensationalism and polarization toward stories highlighting effective, collaborative solutions to conflict.
Through podcasts, publications, public forums, and educational initiatives, MPV is building a movement where the media amplifies peace rather than obscures it. To paraphrase the British playwright Tom Stoppard; If you want to change the world, start with journalists. At MPV, we take this challenge seriously.
Our ultimate goal is to reshape the public conversation on peace and conflict so that peacebuilding is no longer the exception but the expectation.
