commbox Conflicts & Peace

Filter

1802

Sort by:

Direction:

External Link (13)

Google Scholar (11)

WorldCat (11)

ISIS Propaganda: A Full-Spectrum Extremist Message

Stephane J. Baele, Katharine A. Boyd, Travis G. Coan (eds.)

New York: Oxford University Press (2020), xii, 287 pp.

"This book offers a comprehensive overview and analysis of the Islamic State's use of propaganda. Combining a range of different theoretical perspectives from across the social sciences, and using rigorous methods, the authors trace the origins of the Islamic State's message, laying bare the strateg ... more

Download (1)

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

Download (0)

The Role of Social Media in Fomenting Violence: Myanmar

Victoire Rio

Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2020), 20 pp.

"Myanmar was originally portrayed as an internet success story. Connected in a matter of months after five decades of military dictatorship, Myanmar people were supposed to be able to communicate freely, access unimpeded information online, experience the benefits of a range of compelling and empowe ... more

Download (0)

25 Spheres of Digital Peacebuilding and PeaceTech
Quick Overview

Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute;Alliance for Peacebuilding (2020), 28 pp.

"This report outlines twenty-fives spheres where technology can contribute to peacebuilding goals and describes five generations of thinking related to the evolution of technology’s impact on peacebuilding. Digital peacebuilding contributes to democratic deliberation, violence prevention, social c ... more

Download (0)

Social Media Impacts on Conflict Dynamics: A Synthesis of Ten Case Studies & A Peacebuilding Plan for Tech
Quick Overview

Lisa Schirch

Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2020), 21 pp.

"Social media’s relationship with violent conflict is complex; there is no simple cause-effect relationship. These ten case studies indicate that there are a variety of factors at play that im-pact how social media affects conflict dynamics. This report documents an array of observable patterns as ... more

External Link (10)

Bearing Witness: Practices of Journalistic Witnessing in South Sudan

Richard Stupart

London: London School of Economics and Political Science, Doctoral Thesis (2020), 183 pp.

External Link (11)

Google Scholar (9)

WorldCat (10)

Psychological distress in Afghan journalists: A descriptive study

Jonas Osmann, Abdul Mujeeb Khalvatgar, Anthony Feinstein

Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research, volume 2, issue 3 (2020), pp. 115-123

"Afghanistan is one of the world’s most dangerous places for journalists. There are, however, no data on the mental health of Afghan journalists covering conflict in their country. The study aims to determine the degree to which Afghan journalists are exposed to traumatic events, their perceptions ... more

Download (1)

RFA In-Depth Interviews: Uyghur Experiences of Detention in Post-2015 Xinjiang

Radio Free Asia (RFA) (2020), 40 pp.

"This report presents the results of in-depth interviews conducted with eight individuals with recent direct experience inside detention facilities in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). Findings are based on four face-to-face and four remote interviews conducted between November 201 ... more

Download (1)

Social Media Codes of Conduct: Reflections for Mediators

Jonathan Harlander, Maude Morrison

Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (2020), 8 pp.

"This article summarises preliminary reflections for mediators on social media codes of conduct. Such codes of conduct, to be agreed upon by conflict stakeholders, would aim to prevent and mitigate the use of social media to exacerbate conflicts or jeopardise peace processes. Such codes of conduct w ... more

External Link (18)

Google Scholar (12)

WorldCat (15)

Trauma Reporting: A Journalist's Guide to Covering Sensitive Stories
Key Guidance

Jo Healey

London; New York: Routledge (2020), xii, 205 pp.

Trauma Reporting provides vital information on developing a healthy, professional and respectful relationship with those who choose to tell their stories during times of trauma, distress or grief. Amid a growing demand and need for guidance, this fascinating book is refreshingly simple, engaging and ... more

External Link (15)

Countering Violent Extremism in Nigeria: Using a Text-Message Survey to Assess Radio Programs

James V. Marrone, Todd C. Helmus, Elizabeth Bodine-Baron, Christopher Santucci

RAND Corporation (2020), 32 pp.

"Using a randomized encouragement design, we assigned 2,064 people to listen to either 'Ina Mafita' or to a control program (professional soccer matches) each week over the course of two months. Recruitment and engagement were conducted remotely via short message service (short message system [SMS] ... more

Download (1)

Shared Responsibility: Safeguarding Press Freedom in Perilous Times. Lessons Learned and New Approaches to Media Safety
Top Insights

Elisabeth Witchel et al.

Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS) (2020), 91 pp.

"This report identifies five major challenges for developing national plans for safety of journalists and how stakeholders are tackling them. The points addressed concern gaining engagement around safety of journalists by state actors, uniting and focusing efforts of disparate stakeholders into a du ... more

External Link (9)

Bookmarks: A Manual for Combating Hate Speech Online Through Human Rights Education

Ellie Keen, Mara Georgescu (eds.)

Strasbourg: Council of Europe, revised ed. (2020), 213 pp.

"Hate speech is one of the most worrying forms of racism and discrimination prevailing across Europe and amplified by the Internet and social media. Hate speech online is the visible tip of the iceberg of intolerance and ethnocentrism. Young people are directly concerned as agents and victims of onl ... more

External Link (11)

Google Scholar (11)

WorldCat (11)

Documenting Trauma in Comics: Traumatic Pasts, Embodied Histories, and Graphic Reportage

Dominic Davies, Candida Rifkind (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xxi, 345 pp.

"Why are so many contemporary comics and graphic narratives written as memoirs or documentaries of traumatic events? Is there a specific relationship between the comics form and the documentation and reportage of trauma? How do the interpretive demands made on comics readers shape their relationship ... more

External Link (14)

Google Scholar (12)

WorldCat (12)

So, Who is Responsible? A Framing Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of Electoral Violence in Zimbabwe

Allen Munoriyarwa

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 12, issue 1 (2020), pp. 61-74

"This study examines how the 2008 election violence was framed in three mainstream Zimbabwean weekly newspapers – The Sunday Mail, The Independent and The Zimbabwean. It was noted that four frames – the victim, justice and human rights, trivialization and attribution of responsibility frames dom ... more

External Link (9)

Snapshot of a Shadow War: A Preliminary Analysis of Twitter Activity Linked to the Azerbaijan–Armenia Conflict

Elise Thomas, Albert Zhang

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), International Cyber Policy Centre (2020), 29 pp.

"The rapid escalation in the long-running conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia which took place in late September 2020 has been shadowed by a battle across social media for control of the international narrative about the conflict. On Twitter, large numbers of accounts supporting both sides have ... more

External Link (4)

Google Scholar (3)

WorldCat (3)

Challenging Extremist Views on Social Media: Developing a Counter-Messaging Response

Jan-Jaap van Eerten, Bertjan Doosje

London; New York: Routledge (2020), vi, 175 pp.

"Focusing predominantly on efforts countering Salafi-Jihadi extremism, this book examines how feasible it is to prevent or counter radicalization and violent extremism with countermessaging efforts. It investigates important principles to consider when devising such a program. The authors provide bo ... more

Google Scholar (11)

WorldCat (11)

Digital Witness: Using Open Source Information for Human Rights Investigation, Documentation, and Accountability
Key Guidance

Sam Dubberley, Alexa Koenig, Daragh Murray (eds.)

Oxford: Oxford University Press (2020), xvi, 360 pp.

Google Scholar (12)

WorldCat (10)

Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists
Top Insights

Julia Ebner

London et al.: Bloomsbury (2020), viii, 348 pp.

"By day, Julia Ebner works at a counter-extremism think tank, monitoring radical groups from the outside. But two years ago, she began to feel she was only seeing half the picture; she needed to get inside the groups to truly understand them. She decided to go undercover in her spare hours – late ... more

External Link (10)

Google Scholar (8)

WorldCat (9)

Justice and journalism during transitions

Nicole Stremlau

International Communication Gazette, volume 82, issue 7 (2020), pp. 646-663

"Since the collapse of the Somali state in the early 1990s, the country has been one of the most dangerous places in the world for journalists. Many have been killed with impunity and the majority of those that have been killed where the perpetrator is known have been connected to political groups, ... more

25 Spheres of Digital Peacebuilding and PeaceTech Quick Overview

Social Media Impacts on Conflict Dynamics: A Synthesis of Ten Case Studies & A Peacebuilding Plan for Tech Quick Overview

Trauma Reporting: A Journalist's Guide to Covering Sensitive Stories Key Guidance

Shared Responsibility: Safeguarding Press Freedom in Perilous Times. Lessons Learned and New Approaches to Media Safety Top Insights

Digital Witness: Using Open Source Information for Human Rights Investigation, Documentation, and Accountability Key Guidance

Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists Top Insights

25 Spheres of Digital Peacebuilding and PeaceTech
Quick Overview

Social Media Impacts on Conflict Dynamics: A Synthesis of Ten Case Studies & A Peacebuilding Plan for Tech
Quick Overview

Trauma Reporting: A Journalist's Guide to Covering Sensitive Stories
Key Guidance

Shared Responsibility: Safeguarding Press Freedom in Perilous Times. Lessons Learned and New Approaches to Media Safety
Top Insights

Digital Witness: Using Open Source Information for Human Rights Investigation, Documentation, and Accountability
Key Guidance

Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists
Top Insights