This chapter defines and discusses key concepts to study conflict and the media from intersectional perspectives. In order to do justice to the complexities of women journalists’ identities and lived experiences, a simple gender perspective is too narrow and might lead to women journalists being reduced to being ‘only’ women. Hence, intersectional lenses are needed to explore the multiplicity and complexity at stake. What is more, the study of the media and conflict benefits from a discourse-material analysis as proposed by Nico Carpentier, that highlights the entanglements of discursive and material structures and agency. From these two perspectives, intersectionality and discursive-material knot, this book elaborates a multi-level analytical framework based on the individual, relational, discursive/symbolic, and societal/structural level. Moreover, the chapter defines key concepts such as peace, conflict, and conflict transformation based on the work of peace scholars such as Johan Galtung, John Paul Lederach, and Francisco Muñoz.