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Understanding News Coverage of Religious-Based Violence: Empirical and Theoretical Insights from Media Representations of Boko Haram in Nigeria

Leila Demarest, Amélie Godefroidt, Arnim Langer

Journal of Communication, volume 70, issue 4 (2020), pp. 548-573

"Recent studies on conflict and terrorism news coverage have documented an ingroup bias as well as an increasingly negative discourse about Muslims in the wake of Islamist terrorist attacks. Yet, as most of these studies have focused on Western media and settings, the determinants of news media’s ... more

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Biafra, Humanitarian Intervention and History

Marie-Luce Desgrandschamps, Lasse Heerten, Arua Oko Omaka, Kevin O'Sullivan, Bertrand Taithe

Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, volume 2, issue 2 (2020), pp. 66-78

"This roundtable took place on 16 January 2020, at the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the war in Biafra. It brought together Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps, Lasse Heerten, Arua Oko Omaka and Kevin O’Sullivan. The roundtable was organised and chaired by Bertrand Taithe, University of ... more

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Producing Journalistic Discourse on War: A Congolese Experience

Justine Brabant

Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, volume 2, issue 2 (2020), pp. 58-65

"Based on the author’s experience as both a journalist and an independent researcher working regularly in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), this article examines the many constraints that journalists face in areas of armed conflict. It considers two unusual aspects of journalistic practi ... more

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Twenty Years After 'Leave None to Tell the Story', What Do We Now Know About the Genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda?

Timothy Longman

Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, volume 2, issue 2 (2020), pp. 40-47

"In 1999, Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) published an extensive account of genocide in Rwanda, Leave None to Tell the Story. Based on interviews and archival work conducted by a team of researchers and written primarily by Alison Des Forges, Leave N ... more

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"When the Battle's Lost and Won:" Narratives of Peace in the Afghan Film 'A War'

Axel Heck

Peace & Change, volume 45, issue 1 (2020), pp. 101-125

"This article examines the ways in which cinematic film underscores the latency of structural violence in its visualization of peace, specifically through the juxtaposition of the life world of the two main protagonists in the Danish film A War (2016): Captain Claus Pedersen who serves as a Danish s ... more

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Deplatforming: Following Extreme Internet Celebrities to Telegram and Alternative Social Media

Richard Rogers

European Journal of Communication, volume 35, issue 3 (2020), pp. 213-229

"Extreme, anti-establishment actors are being characterized increasingly as ‘dangerous individuals’ by the social media platforms that once aided in making them into ‘Internet celebrities’. These individuals (and sometimes groups) are being ‘deplatformed’ by the leading social media comp ... more

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Digital Peacebuilding Playbook: Social Media

The Commons (2020), 19 pp.

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Using Drama to Encourage Non-Violent Conflict Resolution in South Sudan

London: BBC Media Action (2020), 2 pp.

"Mixed methods research found that including entertaining and relatable characters and storylines in the Life in Lulu radio drama engaged listeners and helped them to apply lessons from the programme to resolve conflicts peacefully in their own households and communities." (Page 1)

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Emotionality and Professionalism: Exploring the Management of Emotions by Journalists Reporting on Genocide

Caitlin Knight

Sociology, volume 54, issue 3 (2020), pp. 609-625

"The dynamic nature of reporting requires journalists to interrogate their emotions as well as their sense of professionalism. This article focuses on the complex relationship between emotionality and professionalism mediated by journalists who reported on cases of genocide. This extraordinary confl ... more

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Transnational Memories and the Practices of Global Justice in the Ayotzinapa Case

In: Agency in Transnational Memory Politics

Jenny Wüstenberg; Aline Sierp (eds.)

New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2020), pp. 47-67

"In this chapter, I analyze transnational memory following the four elements outlined in the introduction—actors, structures, practices, and outcomes—in the case of the disappearances of forty-three students from Ayotzinapa, Mexico, in 2014. First, I discuss why the issue of agency and the outco ... more

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Memorias: Conceptos, relatos y experiencias compartidas

Patricia Nieto (ed.)

Medellín: Fondo Editorial Facultad de Comunicaciones de la Universidad de Antioquia;Hacemos Memoria (2020), 400 pp.

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The danger of words: Major challenges facing Myanmar journalists on reporting the Rohingya conflict

Nyan Lynn

Media Asia, volume 47, issue 1 (2020), pp. 4-22

"Due to the fighting between the Myanmar Army and the Rohingya militant group Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) in August 2017, hundreds of thousands of stateless Rohingya Muslims fled to Bangladesh. The Myanmar Army was accused of committing torture, atrocities, arson and gang-rapes against the ... more

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Rechte Ego-Shooter: Von der virtuellen Hetze zum Livestream-Attentat

Jean-Philipp Baeck, Andreas Speit (eds.)

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2020), 208 pp.

"Rechtsextremistisch, antisemitisch oder rassistisch motivierten Anschlägen fielen seit 2019 in Neuseeland, den USA, Norwegen und Deutschland 86 Menschen zu Opfer. Die Täter verbindet nicht nur ihr Hass, sondern ebenso ihre Radikalisierung im Internet. Sie alle fanden zuvor in einschlägigen Foren ... more

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Theorising Media and Conflict

Philipp Budka, Birgit Bräuchler (eds.)

New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2020), x, 339 pp.

"Theorising Media and Conflict is the result of a joint and interdisciplinary effort to set the theoretical and empirical agenda in theorising upon the complex relationship between media and conflict. By considering the theorisation work accomplished by the ‘Anthropology of Media’ series forerun ... more

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I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: The Effect of Crime News Coverage on Crime Perception

Daniel Velásquez, Santiago Medina Serna, Gustavo Yamada, Pablo Lavado, Miguel Nuñez, Hugo Alatrista, Juandiego Morzán

World Development, volume 136 (2020), pp. 1-20

"Crime perception has increased in Peru, as in other developing and developed countries, in spite of the reduction in crime victimization figures. Our hypothesis is that the news industry is partially responsible for such opposing trends. As Peruvians are great consumers of written news, we focus on ... more

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Sharing the Burden of Stories from the Tutsi Genocide. Rwanda: Écrire par Devoir de Mémoire

Anna-Marie de Beer

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xii, 300 pp.

"This book deals with literary representations of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Its focus is a transnational, polyphonic writing project entitled Rwanda: écrire par devoir de mémoire (Rwanda: Writing by Duty of Memory), undertaken in 1998 by a group of nine African authors. Anna-Marie ... more

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New Media and Revolution: Resistance and Dissent in Pre-Uprising Syria

Billie Jeanne Brownlee

Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press (2020), 296 pp.

"Investigating the root causes of the Syrian uprising of 2011, New Media and Revolution shows how acts of online resistance prepared the ground for better-organised street mobilisation. The book interprets the uprising not as the start of Syria’s social mobilisation but as a shift from online to o ... more

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Hate Speech, Information Disorder, and Conflict: Research Review

Sahana Udupa, Iginio Gagliardone, Alexandra Deem, Laura Csuka

SSRC (2020), 17 pp.

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Reporting in Conflict Zones in Pakistan: Risks and Challenges for Fixers

Kiyya Baloch, Kenneth Andresen

Media and Communication, volume 8, issue 1 (2020), pp. 37-46

"As a backbone of reporting in war and conflicts, fixers offer essential assistance to the foreign correspondent in conflict zones, also in Pakistan. With valuable local knowledge and contacts, fixers can arrange travel to secure entry of foreign correspondents into conflict zones in addition to sec ... more

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Working Paper: Designing Narrative-Based CVE Products with a Structured Professional Judgment Approach

Jörg Peschaka

Journal for Deradicalization, issue 25 (2020), pp. 158-196

"Inspired by methods used in risk assessment, this paper suggests a structured professional judgment approach (SPJ) to facilitate the decision-making process in expert group settings tasked with the development of narrative-based countering violent extremism (CVE) products. The added value of this c ... more