This chapter discusses the positive potential media can have in the field of peacebuilding. There is an analyzation of several problems with group identity, self-esteem, and self-worth. Given that media is often perceived with a negative connotation, this chapter refutes such idea by examining the role that media has the potential to play in counteracting negative stereotypes and dehumanization.

This chapter focuses on developmental interventions that are beneficial to peacebuilding and reducing violence. Many childhood interventions have a variety of implications on how to increase and strengthen the development of both cognitive as well as socio-emotional behavior in children, and this chapter addresses such implications in order to create a clear and direct pathway between early childhood interventions and peace building.

Resilience frameworks suggests that there are three basic approaches to promoting capacity for peace in the lives of children: mitigating risk or preventing exposure to experiences that undermine the capacity for peace, boosting resources and opportunities that nurture the capacity for peace, and mobilizing powerful adaptive systems that support and protect human capabilities for peace in hazardous circumstances. These approaches serve as a foundation for learning peaceful means of social interactions, managing conflict, and responding to stress or trauma.

Peacebuilding is by no means a simple task and is especially challenging to children who are victims to collective and interpersonal violence. There is an ongoing debate questioning if focusing on trauma in such victims is necessary for peacebuilding and human development, and this chapter discusses the various arguments while also analyzing how forms of violence influence the social, emotional, and cognitive development of children.