commbox Conflicts & Peace

Filter

1802

Sort by:

Direction:

Download (1)

KONY 2012, Military Humanitarianism, and the Magic of Occult Economies

Sverker Finnström

Africa Spectrum, volume 47, issue 2-3 (2012), pp. 127-135

"The global success of the film KONY 2012 by Invisible Children, Inc., manifests far greater magical powers than those of Joseph Kony and his ruthless Lord’s Resistance Army, which it portrays. The most prominent feature of the Invisible Children lobby is the making and constant remaking of a mast ... more

External Link (7)

Google Scholar (7)

WorldCat (7)

Collective Victimization

Johanna Ray Vollhardt

In: The Oxford Handbook of Intergroup Conflict

L. R. Tropp (ed.)

Oxford University Press (2012), pp. 136-157

"This chapter discusses the role of collective victimization in inciting, sustaining, and preventing intergroup conflict. The emerging psychological literature on this topic has studied collective victimization that was experienced directly in one’s lifetime, as well as collective victimization ex ... more

External Link (11)

The Media of Afghanistan: The Challenges of Transition
Top Insights

David Page, Shirazuddin Siddiqi

London: BBC Media Action (2012), 27 pp.

"[...] Afghanistan is a fragile, fractured state and has one of the most fragile and fractured media, where almost anyone with sufficient funds and the opportunity to move quickly has been able to establish a media presence. This environment has enabled the flourishing of television, radio and other ... media established and owned by powerful political and religious leaders, or by those with allegiance to them. Some fear a future of increased ethnic, sectarian and factional strife being played out through the airwaves. Though there are some very successful commercial television channels, there is no independent and widely trusted national media capable of transcending or creating communication across the fracture points in Afghan society. Most media is either localised or seen as serving political, religious or other agendas. The future of the national broadcaster, RTA, still the only broadcaster with a truly national presence, is uncertain. While journalism as a whole has expanded greatly, investigative journalism remains limited. The sustainability of the newly established commercial media is widely questioned. With the total annual advertising market in the country estimated by some at little more than $20 million, there are real concerns that if donor support declines much of the media will wither or fall prey to factional, religious or extreme forces. There is no shortage of such forces. A number of media outlets already play upon ethnic and sectarian tensions. The Taliban, notorious when in power for shutting down media and banning video tape, have embraced the web and run one of the most effective media strategies in the country. In 2012, the mood music is one of compromise with the Taliban. Concern in the country is growing that new found media freedoms may be the price of that compromise. The role of donors in media support in Afghanistan is probably greater than in any other country at any other time. Such support is largely responsible for the development of a substantial media sector, but it faces criticism that it is poorly coordinated, short term and not informed by aid effectiveness principles; that it focuses too heavily on advancing the agendas of the donors; and that in some sectors it is distorting the media market in ways that create dependency and inhibit the development of genuinely sustainable Afghan media ventures." (Executive summary) more

External Link (6)

Middle East Conflict 2.0: Israelis and Palestinians Between Virtual Conflict and Online Peace

Judith Daemberg

KAS International Reports, issue 11 (2012), pp. 6-20

"The ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is increasingly being played out in parallel on the internet. Recently, a great deal of media attention has been devoted to a series of spectacular hacker attacks that caused dozens of Israeli and Palestinian websites to crash, including thos ... more

Download (1)

Peacebuilding with Impact: Defining Theories of Change

London: Care International (2012), 12 pp.

"Focusing on theories of change can improve the effectiveness of peacebuilding interventions. A review of 19 peacebuilding projects in three conflict-affected countries found that the process of articulating and reviewing theories of change adds rigour and transparency, clarifies project logic, high ... more

External Link (8)

Google Scholar (7)

WorldCat (8)

War Journalists and Forces of Gatekeeping During the Escalation and the De-Escalation Periods of the Iraq War

Hun Shik Kim

International Communication Gazette, volume 74, issue 4 (2012), pp. 323-341

"Since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, war journalists have reported news from the battlefields and streets of Baghdad to the world audiences. As the violent conflict in Iraq winds down, so do the war reporting operations in Iraq. Based on in-depth interviews with 23 war correspondents, this study inv ... more

Download (1)

Cross-Border Media and Nationalism: Evidence from Serbian Radio in Croatia

Stefano DellaVigna, Ruben Enikolopov, Vera Mironova, Maria Petrova, Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

[authors] (2012), 66 pp.

"This paper documents the effect of Serbian public radio on the voting behavior and nationalistic anti-Serbian sentiment of Croats in Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Srijem, a post-conflict region of modern Croatia on the border with Serbia. We find that the exposure to the Serbian public radi ... more

External Link (11)

Google Scholar (9)

WorldCat (10)

Media, Mobilization, and Human Rights: Mediating Suffering

Tristan Anne Borer (ed.)

London; New York: Zed Books (2012), viii, 251 pp.

External Link (12)

Google Scholar (13)

WorldCat (14)

Reporting on Religious Authority Complicit with Atrocity

Paul A. Soukup

In: The Handbook of Global Communication and Media Ethics

Robert S. Fortner; Mark Fackler (eds.)

Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2011), pp. 774-784

External Link (11)

Google Scholar (9)

WorldCat (10)

Trauma Journalism: On Deadline in Harm's Way

Mark H. Massé

New York; London: Continuum (2011), ix, 229 pp.

"The role of journalists in covering trauma and tragedy isn’t new. Witnessing acts of violence, destruction and terror has long been the professional responsibility of countless print and broadcast reporters and photographers. But what is new is a growing awareness of the emotional consequences of ... more

External Link (7)

Covering Trauma: A Training Guide

Jina Moore

Search for Common Ground, Radio for Peacebuilding Africa (2011), 20 pp.

"All stories about an ordinary person who becomes the victim of abuse require extra sensitivity, because survivors of abuse – whether the abuse is physical, emotional or political – are usually survivors of a traumatic event. There are many kinds of traumatic events. A terrible car crash, an ear ... more

Download (0)

New Social Media and Conflict in Kyrgyzstan

Neil Melvin, Tolkun Umaraliev

Solna: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) (2011), 22 pp.

"During 2010 Kyrgyzstan experienced two periods of conflict that took the country to the brink of civil war: the overthrow of President Kurmanbek Bakiyev in April and the ethnic violence in the south of the country in June. The use of blogs and social network sites as well as mobile and multimedia p ... more

External Link (10)

The Media of Somalia: A Force for Moderation?

Jamal Abdi, James Deane

London: BBC World Service Trust (2011), 12 pp.

External Link (9)

Conflict reporting in the South Pacific: Why peace journalism has a chance

David Robie

Journal of Pacific Studies, volume 31, issue 2 (2011), pp. 221-240

"Peace journalism is hardly a new concept, Galtung and Ruge having provided a key conceptual underpinning in 1965 and in later studies. However, while it flourished significantly in parts of the globe in the 1990s, notably the Philippines, albeit frequently referred to there as ‘conflict-sensitive ... more

Google Scholar (8)

WorldCat (8)

Comunicación para la paz en acción: Periodismos, conflictos, alfabetización mediática y alianza de civilizaciones;Communication for Peace in Action: Journalisms, Conflicts, Media Literacy and Alliance of Civilizations

Eloísa Nos Aldás, José Ignacio Martín Galán, Fatuma Ahmed Ali (eds.)

Castelló de la Plana: Universitat Jaume I (2011), 301 pp.

"Desde la perspectiva de los medios de comunicación, se presentan en esta obra investigaciones académicas y lecciones aprendidas en cuatro apartados: el impacto de los medios de comunicación en la construcción de violencia cultural, medios alternativos para la construcción de paz, alfabetizaci� ... more

External Link (10)

The new foreign correspondent at work: Local-national 'stringers' and the global news coverage of conflict in Darfur

Mel Bunce

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2011), 36 pp.

"[...] Explores the role played by local-nationals in covering the crisis for global audiences and how these journalists differed from the traditional, Western-born foreign correspondents who worked alongside them. The research draws on two methods: in-depth, semi-structured interviews with foreign ... more

Download (0)

Peace Journalism: Giving Power to the People

Media Development, volume 58, issue 2 (2011), pp. 3-35

"Peace journalism finds its place in newspapers and magazines, on radio and television, in film and documentaries, in digital media and mainstream cultural events such as public exhibitions and debates. There are also transnational online communities like Avaaz.org, which is dedicated to organizing ... more

Download (0)

Peacebuilding in the Information Society: Sifting Hype from Reality

Daniel Stauffacher, Barbara Weekes, Urs Gasser, Colin Maclay, Michael Best (eds.)

Geneva: ICT for Peace Foundation (2011), 47 pp.

Download (0)

No Justice for Journalists in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia: Impunity and Killings of Journalists Go Hand in Hand

London; Copenhagen: Article 19;International Media Support (IMS) (2011), 41 pp.

Download (2)

Evaluating Media Interventions in Conflict Countries: Toward Developing Common Principles and a Community of Practice

Amelia Arsenault, Sheldon Himelfarb, Susan Abbott

Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2011), 35 pp.

"A wide array of media development practitioners, donors, international broadcasters, and methodologists, all with extensive experience working in media initiatives in conflict environments met in Caux, Switzerland, in December 2010, to establish the Caux Guiding Principles, whose full text is in th ... more

The Media of Afghanistan: The Challenges of Transition Top Insights

The Media of Afghanistan: The Challenges of Transition
Top Insights