Active listening, dialogue, trust-building, participation and local ownership – the fields of conflict transformation and Communication for Development (C4D) share many of their key principles and approaches. Despite these parallels, academic literature that evaluates the relationship between these two fields remains scarce. This gap also exists in peacebuilding practice where many organizations feel ambiguous towards the role that communication and media assume in their work. In the case of Israel and Palestine, media has become a proxy for encounters with ‘the Other’ and carries the power to determine the support of foreign audiences for either side of the conflict. As such, media can be both a dividing and a connecting factor in conflict. Underestimating the power that media representations, such as images, can have in a conflict will increase the risk of media to ‘do harm’ and diminish the positive potential that C4D interventions can have for peacebuilding. This thesis explores dynamics of representation and narratives in the work of the German Civil Peace Service in Palestine. It argues that stronger synergies between the fields of conflict transformation and communication for development can reduce the risk to do harm and increase the potential for media interventions to support processes of conflict transformation and social change. Thereby, this research hopes to contribute to academic literature at the intersection of communication, conflict and development.