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Audience Responses to Peace Journalism: Merging Results from a Four-Country Research Study

Annabel McGoldrick, Jake Lynch

Journalism Studies, volume 17, issue 5 (2016), pp. 628-646

"This article shows how results were merged from a study conducted in four countries-Australia, the Philippines, South Africa and Mexico-in which differently versioned television news stories about conflict were played to audiences, and their responses gathered through a mix of methods, to yield bot ... more

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Winning the Information War: Techniques and Counter-Strategies to Russian Propaganda in Central and Eastern Europe

Edward Lucas, Peter Pomeranzev

Washington, DC: Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) (2016), 64 pp.

"Currently, no dedicated agency or systematic effort analyzes the effect of Russian (or any other) disinformation. Who really watches Russia Today? Where? For how long? And why? Nor do we have the means to systematically track the content: How does the Kremlin’s message in Germany differ from the ... more

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YouTube and Evidencing Warcrimes: The Role of Digital Video for Transitional Justice in Syria

Josepha Wessels

Tidskriftet POLITIK, volume 19, issue 4 (2016), pp. 30-52

"The enormous collection of user-generated content (UGC) in the form of YouTube videos from the Syrian war provides an unprecedented and diverse collection of shared digital memories of conflict and violence. The central question of this article asks what the value is of UGC on YouTube for legal evi ... dence of war crimes and future Transitional Justice. It is beyond doubt that the surge of uploaded videos from the Syrian uprisings revolutionized the way in which contemporary wars are observed and documented. The sheer amount of user-generated content online has given rise to manifold ways of interpreting what is happening on the ground, inspired creative resistance, led to a surge of professional and independent Syrian documentary films and increased the connectivity between those who undergo the war inside the conflict zone and those who are observing the situation from a safe distance. Many YouTube clips from Syria are likely to be rejected as stand-alone legal evidence though, as it often lacks sourced information about meta-data, date, time, geographical coordinates, identity of the participants, the identity of the perpetrator, and other contextual information crucial to establishing judicial facts for war crimes prosecution. The everexpanding body of videos from Syria will give rise to a wide and varied landscape of interactive media that has surpassed the old approach of political mainstream media to inform and possibly manipulate their audiences for their own agendas, whatever those may be. As a platform of digital memory and space to express moral outrage, YouTube served a crucial and important role in the Syrian crisis and the UGC is of immense value for digital memorialisation and historicization of the Syrian crisis. The vast amount of UGC on YouTube was categorized in 8 different types of footage and we can conclude that only small number of videoclips on YouTube can in fact function as crime-based evidence for war crimes. This does not mean that the UGC on YouTube has no value, however as a legal evidence it can be problematic to use YouTube videos if not corroborated and verified properly. The main issue is the lack of meta-data in many of the UGC on YouTube. The YouTube video revolution in Syria did bring to the surface many brave video activists who are now professionally involved in producing high quality footage for international news broadcasters, the most recent example of that is the important work of Waad al Kataeb inside eastern Aleppo with the British Broadcaster Channel Four News (Channel 4 2016). Through a series of edited 5-6 minute mini stories from the ground, Al Kataeb’s work provides a credible and important source of evidence." (Conclusion, page 22-23) more

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Final Evaluation for ‘Communicating for Peace in South Sudan: A Social and Behaviour Change Communication Initiative’, Bor, Juba and Wau, South Sudan

UNICEF;Search for Common Ground;Forcier Consulting (2016), viii, 54 pp.

"Project locations experienced general improvement with regards to social cohesion and conflict resolution. This was particularly the case in Wau, where results were encouraging. In contrast, Bor continued to feature more negative results than other project locations, although the county saw importa ... more

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Peace Journalism Principles and Practices: Responsibly Reporting Conflicts, Reconciliation, and Solutions
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Steven Youngblood

New York; London: Routledge (2016), xvii, 249 pp.

"Long-time peace journalist Steven Youngblood presents the foundations of peace journalism in this exciting new textbook, offering readers the methods, approaches, and concepts required to use journalism as a tool for peace, reconciliation, and development. Guidance is offered on framing stories, et ... more

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How the UN Silenced Liberia’s Press

Prue Clarke, Rodney Sieh

Foreign Policy, August 8 (2016)

"Few aspects of Liberian society have suffered more under UNMIL than the media, which is critical for any young democracy but all the more so for one emerging from civil war. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.N. mission itself, and other donors have spent more than $10 mil ... more

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Media and Peace in the Middle East: The Role of Journalism in Israel-Palestine

Giuliana Tiripelli

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), 191 pp.

"In exploring the dynamics and narratives of peace in journalism, this book explains the media's impact on the transformation of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. It discusses the perspectives of peace activists who have been involved in grassroots action since the first Intifada, and ... more

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Survival Media: The Politics and Poetics of Mobility and the War in Sri Lanka

Suvendrini Perera

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xvi, 133 pp.

"Through the narratives and movements of survivors of the war in Lanka these interconnected essays develop the concept of 'survival media' as embodied and expressive forms of mobility across borders." (Publisher description)

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Suenan Ondas de Paz! Ondas ciudadanas que transforman

Ángela Patricia Sastre Católico, Alma D. Montoya Ch., Carloina Martínez Molina, Liverman Rengifo et al.

Bogotá: Cantoyaco Red de Emisoras Comunitarias del Putumayo;Grupo Comunicarte (2016), 56 pp.

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Media and Information Literacy: Reinforcing Human Rights, Countering Radicalization and Extremism. MILID Yearbook 2016

Jagtar Singh, Paulette Kerr, Esther Hamburger (eds.)

Paris: UNESCO (2016), 314 pp.

"The book is divided into five sections: 1. Community Empowerment and Sustainable Development; 2. Hate speech and Incitement; 3. Radicalization and Extremism; 4. Human Rights and Gender Equality; 5. Inter-religious and Intercultural Discourses in the media. Articles submitted are linked to one of th ... more

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Communication for Development in Peacebuilding: Directions on Research and Evaluation for an Emerging Field

Valentina Baú

Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, volume 29, issue 6 (2015), pp. 801-817

"This article highlights the key areas in which Communication for Development (C4D) can play a role in the aftermath of conflict, with a focus both at the community and at the national level. It provides an overview of the literature that has begun to discuss C4D in the light of peace creation. It i ... more

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Uchaguzi: A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of ICTs, Statebuilding, and Peacebuilding in Kenya

Warigia Bowman, Bob Bell, Wambui Ngugi, Wainaina Mungai, Grace Githaiga, Paola Cavallari

Philadelphia: Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) (2015), 43 pp.

"This study has found that Uchaguzi represents a blended model incorporating both crowd-seeding (placing monitors on the ground to collect data) and crowd-sourcing (collecting information from the public). The success of crowd-seeding is a function of Uchaguzi’s partnerships with local and interna ... more

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Media, Discussion, and Attitudes in Fragile Contexts
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Chris Snow, Will Taylor

London: BBC Media Action (2015), 48 pp.

"The report explores how discussion programmes – where a diverse audience, representing the whole of society, is engaged in fair and balanced debate – can stimulate both private/interpersonal discussion and public discussion in either a community setting or one hosted by local government. It the ... more

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Bravery or Bravado? The Protection of News Providers in Armed Conflict

Nina Burri

Brill (2015), xviii, 450 pp.

"During the last decade, the image of war correspondents in the news has shifted dramatically. Reports are no longer full of cheerleading stories of embedded journalists. Instead, stories of war reporters being attacked, kidnapped or injured prevail. Sadly, the former heroic witnesses to war have be ... more

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Freedom of the Media - Freedom Through Media?

Ralf Hohlfeld, Ralph Kendlbacher, Oliver Hahn (eds.)

Bochum; Freiburg: Projektverlag (2015), 384 pp.

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Nachbarschaftstreffen on air: Brücken bauen in einer konfliktgeschüttelten Region

Johanna Wild

Nah Dran (GIZ), issue 1 (2015), pp. 8-10

"Politische Spannungen und Vorurteile belasten das Verhältnis zwischen Ruandern, Burundiern und Kongolesen. So manch einer verzieht bei der Vorstellung ins Nachbarland einreisen zu müssen, das Gesicht. Das Spukgespenst des bösen Nachbarn verbreiten und verstärken nicht zuletzt die Medien. Doch e ... more

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More Than Words: Apologies as a Form of Reparation

Ruben Carranza, Cristián Correa, Elena Naughton

New York: International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) (2015), 20 pp.

"This report explores many of the issues and challenges likely to be faced by those considering a public apology as a form of reparation for victims of serious human rights violations. It finds that the best apologies clearly acknowledge responsibility for violations, recognize the continuing pain o ... more

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Media-Related Peacebuilding in Processes of Conflict Transformation

Rousbeh Legatis

Berlin: Berghof Foundation (2015), 21 pp.

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Peace Journalism: A Proposition for Conceptual and Methodological Improvements

Stig Arne Nohrstedt, Rune Ottosen

Global Media and Communication, volume 11, issue 3 (2015), pp. 219-235

"The peace journalism (PJ) field now has an appreciable amount of published material to show for its first decade of serious operation, in research, teaching and training alike. It amounts to a serious project to reform professional education programmes in journalism. But so far, the proposed remedi ... more

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Outsourcing Authority in the Digital Age: Television News Networks and Freelance War Correspondents

Lindsay Palmer

Critical Studies in Media Communication, volume 32, issue 4 (2015), pp. 225-239

"This article examines the unique ways in which the figure of the freelance war correspondent is entangled within both the material and discursive logic of the digital in the age of the “war on terror.” Because freelancers increasingly work across media platforms and without large crews, these m ... more

Peace Journalism Principles and Practices: Responsibly Reporting Conflicts, Reconciliation, and Solutions Key Guidance

Media, Discussion, and Attitudes in Fragile Contexts Top Insights

Peace Journalism Principles and Practices: Responsibly Reporting Conflicts, Reconciliation, and Solutions
Key Guidance

Media, Discussion, and Attitudes in Fragile Contexts
Top Insights