Our Work
Addressing conflict at its root.
Conflict does not announce itself. It builds — through contested narratives, eroded trust, and the slow breakdown of communication between institutions and communities. MPSI's work addresses these dynamics at their root, by equipping the people who shape public information and the institutions that maintain public safety to work together more effectively.
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Peace Journalism & Conflict-Sensitive Reporting Training
Across Africa, journalists covering conflict, elections and security crises are often working without the frameworks, skills or institutional support to do so responsibly. The consequences — misinformation, inflammatory framing, amplified tensions — are well documented.
MPSI's training programme equips journalists, editors and media practitioners with practical, evidence-based tools for responsible reporting in complex environments. Delivered through a hybrid model combining virtual sessions and residential training at KAIPTC, participants gain skills in:
- Peace journalism principles and conflict-sensitive reporting frameworks
- Early warning — understanding conflict indicators and how media can contribute to prevention
- Digital verification, misinformation detection and responsible social media reporting
- Electoral reporting and political transitions
- Gender-sensitive and inclusive reporting on conflict
Grounded and certified
Training is contextually grounded — drawing on Ghana's specific conflict landscape — and certified through KAIPTC, one of Africa's most respected peace and security training institutions.
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Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue
The relationship between media and security institutions in Africa is too often defined by suspicion and distance. Journalists view security actors with caution. Security actors view journalists as a risk. The result is a communication gap that weakens both.
MPSI's Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue series creates a structured, neutral platform where these two worlds — alongside policymakers, peacebuilding organisations, electoral institutions and civil society — sit at the same table to address the challenges that shape public trust, information integrity and peaceful societies.
2020 Edition
Held ahead of Ghana's general elections, bringing together media, security and electoral actors for the first structured conversation of its kind.
2024 Edition
Held at KAIPTC under the theme Safeguarding Peace Before, During and After Elections: The Role of Media and Security Actors — convening Ghana's Minister of Interior, Inspector General of Police, Electoral Commission Chairperson, AU ECOSOCC, the Ghana Journalists Association and Ghana's full security architecture.
2027 Edition
The 3rd Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue is planned for 2027. Each dialogue produces a published report, a set of cross-sectoral commitments and a strengthened network of institutional relationships that outlast the event itself.
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Early Warning & the Media-Security Interface
Responsible journalism is not just good practice — it is a conflict prevention tool. A journalist who understands how conflict escalates, how misinformation spreads, and how to verify information before publishing is a frontline actor in any early warning system.
MPSI works at the intersection of media and security to build this interface deliberately — through training, simulation exercises and structured engagements that embed journalists within Ghana's conflict prevention architecture. This includes early warning scenario exercises that bring media practitioners and security analysts together to examine how reporting decisions affect conflict escalation and de-escalation in real time.
Continental alignment
This dimension of our work directly supports the African Union's mandate on early warning and preventive diplomacy under Article 6(b) of the PSC Protocol, and contributes to Agenda 2063's Moonshot 4: Africa Resolves Conflicts Peacefully.
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Research & Knowledge Production
Effective programming requires evidence. MPSI invests in research and knowledge production that advances understanding of the media-peace-security nexus and informs practice across Africa.
Conflict analyses
Contextually grounded assessments of the media-conflict landscape in programme countries.
Peace journalism toolkits
Practical, locally adapted resources for newsrooms and individual practitioners.
Dialogue reports
Documentation of Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue proceedings, commitments and recommendations.
Programme evaluations
Independent assessments that track adoption of peace journalism practices and programme impact.
Policy briefs
Evidence-based recommendations for governments, security institutions and media regulators.
All knowledge products are publicly available and designed to be replicable — so that what works in Ghana can inform programming elsewhere on the continent.
One system, not four programmes
Our four work areas are not separate programmes. They are a system — designed to reinforce each other and build, over time, a more informed, more collaborative and more resilient environment for peace and security across Africa.
See our work in action.
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