Communication, Culture & Critique ISSN 1753-9129 ORIGINAL ARTICLE Community Media for Reconciliation: A Cypriot Case Study Nico Carpentier 1 & Vaia Doudaki 2 1 Centre for Studies on Media & Culture, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium 2 Department of Communication and Internet Studies, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus Community media studies have often neglected how community media can contribute in areas ridden with conflict to more peaceful ways of cohabitation. This article aims to look in detail at how the Cyprus Community Media Centre (CCMC) has developed conflict resolution strategies to reduce the antagonism in the Cypriot society, an island divided since 1974. Then it looks at the problems and complexities that this organization has to face when trying to realize its remit, caused by the fallacies in the community media model and by the Cypriot context of conflictuality. Despite the difficulties, the CCMC illustrates that community media can play a role in conflict resolution, creating more opportunities for mutual understanding and for the humanization of the other. doi:10.1111/cccr.12017 Community media are described as those media organizations that serve the com- munity, by providing content relevant to the needs of its members, while promoting access and participation of the latter (Cammaerts, 2009; Fuller, 2012; Jankowski & Prehn, 2002; Jimenez & Scifo, 2010; Meadows et al., 2007). Community media are also regarded as the third voice in comparison with, or in opposition to, public service, state and private commercial media, fostering the voice of the ordinary people and of civil society (Coyer et al., 2008; Forde, 2011; Peissl & Tremetzberger, 2010; Rodríguez, 2000). Also, by encouraging the self-expression of minorities and marginalized groups, they are claimed to build alternative news agendas to those of the mainstream media, which tend to favor the voices of societal elites. In addition, their capacity to foster diversity, intercultural dialogue, and tolerance has made community media privileged partners in peace-building, conflict resolution, and reconciliation (Rodríguez, 2011). The latter dimension of community media in particular has not often been studied, although a considerable number of projects have been organized (and Corresponding author: Nico Carpentier; e-mail: nico.carpentier@vub.ac.be Communication, Culture & Critique 7 (2014) 415–434  2013 International Communication Association 415