The center’s work is founded in an appreciation of the practical problems that undermine unfettered media practice and free speech in conflict situations and peace processes, and the need to strengthen their work through the development of capacity to understand, anticipate, plan and forecast holistic solutions to conflicts.

CEMESP supports the institutional development of the media (both traditional and modern) in the area of peace building and conflict resolution mechanisms. The center has conducted training for more than 200 journalists, traditional communicators and local leaders across the country in the area of peace building and development since 2000.

As part of its role in improving the capacity of the Liberian media, CEMESP has hosted a number of training workshops with various organizations. These have included:

January 18, 2008: 
The Center for Media Studies and Peacebuilding with support from the Norwegian Human Rights Fund, conducted a one-day training workshop for Liberian journalists on issues of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Topics discussed at the workshop include: Overview of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as human rights; and the Legal Implications of Economic, Social and Cultural rights, among others.

December 15, 2007:
The Center for Media Studies and Peacebuilding with support from the Norwegian Human Rights Fund, conducted a two-day advocacy workshop for journalists and community members in Sasstown, Grand Kru County on popular understanding of  Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

August 03, 2007: 
The Center for Media Studies and Peace Building with support from UNESCO conducted a training workshop on Preparing Women for Leadership Roles in the Liberian Media.

Thirty participants were selected from the print and electronic media and mass communications departments of the University of Liberia, African Methodist Episcopal University and the United Methodist University.

Topics considered at the workshop include: Media Women in Democratic Societies, Women in Media and Leadership, Reporting Gender and Development Issues, Balancing Family and Work, and Managing Change, Media Law and Ethics, News Writing, Interviewing techniques, among others.

August 2007: In continuation of its Capacity Building Program for Liberian journalists, and improving the performance of Liberian media as a whole toward firmly implanting the media in the democratization of Liberia, the Center for Media Studies and Peace Building (CEMESP) conducted a six-week intensive training of Media Managers and Senior Editors from media institutions in Liberia.The workshop conducted in Monrovia was also part of CEMESP programs  sponsored by the United States based National Endowment for Democracy, NED.It was aimed at helping the participants to brush up their skills in the management of their respective media outlets.In addition to management topics-Management-Purpose & Function, Innovation-Market Survey, Leadership for Innovation, Business Side of Media, Media Organization-explored by facilitators of the workshop, the training also considered technical issues such as Editing Skills, Roles and Responsibilities of Editors or Media Managers, Feature and Editorial Writing, Language Skills, Media Laws and Ethics, and Online Investigative Journalism.

November 2006: The Center for Media Studies & Peace Building (CEMESP) with support from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) held a six-week journalism training course in Monrovia for some beginner journalists in the country.
 Twenty five practicing   journalists, including 11 females, from more than 10 print and broadcast media institutions across the country, were selected from than 75 persons who applied for the course.

 Media Situation in Liberia, Basics of Journalism, Issues relating to Freedom of Expression, News Concepts and Interview Techniques, Language Skills, as well as basic writing exercises for News & Script Writing, Writing Features, Editorials & Commentaries and Broadcast Presentations & Productions were among topics treated by the workshop.

Sports Writers Association of Liberia
Provision of peace building skills for sports reporters. (2003)