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"This study examines the psychological health of contractors working in war zones. Seventy-nine contractors completed an Internet-based psychiatric assessment. The sample was exclusively male with a mean age of 43 (SD = 7) years. The number of contractors whose scores exceeded the cutoff points for ... more

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Between Radicalisation and Democratisation in an Unfolding Conflict: Media in Pakistan

Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS) (2009), 54 pp.

"After nine years of military rule, Pakistan today finds itself in the second year of a challenging transition to democracy. Unlike previously unsuccessful transitions to democracy, this transition is characterised by the presence of a newly liberalised mass media. This can prove to be to be a cruci ... more

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After the Hate Media: Regulation in the DRC, Burundi, Rwanda

Marie-Soleil Frère

Global Media and Communication, volume 5, issue 3 (2009), pp. 327-352

"During the past 15 years Central Africa, and specifically Burundi, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, have been through devastating wars in which the media became actors. In 1993, some Burundese newspapers were described as ‘hate media’ and one year later Radio télévision mille coll ... more

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Comunicación y conflictos socioambientales en el Perú: Radios educativas y comunitarias en la encrucijada

Jorge Acevedo Rojas

Diálogos de la Comunicación, issue 78 (2009), 11 pp.

"El artículo presenta un conjunto de reflexiones sobre la actuación de radios educativas y comunitarias en contextos de conflicto social principalmente entre empresas mineras y comunidades en el Perú. Parte de una aproximación a la problemática de los conflictos sociambientales, cuyo número e ... more

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Rebel Voices and Radio Actors: In Pursuit of Dialogue and Debate in Northern Uganda

Maggie Ibrahim

Development in Practice, volume 19, issue 4-5 (2009), pp. 610-620

"The town of Gulu in northern Uganda stood still as the leader of a then 16-year-old insurgency against the government was heard live through a local government radio station. On 28 December 2002, Joseph Kony called in to Mega FM’s live debate talk show and was heard throughout northern Uganda. Th ... more

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Gaza Media Safety

Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS) (2009), 14 pp.

"Lack of safety and basic protection for media workers in Gaza – and in particular for journalists and photographers working freelance – has been identified as the most crucial and imminent issue in the weeks following the military offensive by Israel against Hamas in the Gaza Strip on 27 Decemb ... more

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Media Discourse and the Yugoslav Conflicts: Representations of Self and Other

Pal Kolstø (ed.)

Farnham, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate (2009), xii, 270 pp.

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Twenty-First Century Embedded Journalists: Lawful Targets?

W. Douglas Moore

Army Lawyer, issue July (2009), 32 pp.

"In light of the U.S. functionality test to Article 51(3), the role and use of today’s embedded journalist in international armed conflicts poses a direct threat to their civilian protections under Article 79 of Protocol I. Despite the fact that embedded journalism has helped to facilitate better ... more

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Media in Peacebuilding and Conflict Prevention: Documentation 2008

Christoph Schmidt, Wilfried Solbach, Marc von Boemcken (eds.)

Bonn: Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum (2008), 209 pp.

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Teaching Holocaust Literature and Film

Barry Langford, Robert Eaglestone (eds.)

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2008), xi, 170 pp.

"The representation of the Holocaust in literature and film has confronted lecturers and students with some challenging questions. Does this unique and disturbing subject demand alternative pedagogic strategies? What is the role of ethics in the classroom encounter with the Holocaust? " (Publisher d ... more

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Shooting the Messenger: The Political Impact of War Reporting

Paul L. Moorcraft, Philip M. Taylor

Dulles, Va.: Potomac Books (2008), xv, 318 pp.

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The Examples of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan: Political Extremism, Terrorism, and Media in Central Asia

Copenhagen; Almaty; Bishkek: International Media Support (IMS);Adil Soz;Public Association "Journalists" (2008), 38 pp.

"This study furnishes the media, the civil society organisations, the public authorities and international organisations in the region with a point of reference in context to the rising debate about extremism, especially Islamic fundamentalism, and terrorism. It provides insight into how the mass me ... more

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Sin rastro, imágenes para construir memoria

Bogotá: Fundación Dos Mundos;Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) (2008), 125 pp.

"Este libro es una selección de imágenes del Concurso Nacional de Fotografía sobre Desaparición Forzada 'Sin Rastro." (Página 1)

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Media and Conflict: Afghanistan as a Relative Success Story

Yll Bajraktari, Christina Parajon

Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2008), 8 pp.

"The development of media in post-Taliban Afghanistan has been relatively successful (compared with both the Taliban regime and other countries subject to international intervention) in establishing free and responsible expression despite the lack of electricity, harsh terrain, absence of viable med ... more

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Guidance on Evaluating Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Activities: Working Draft for Application Period

Paris: OECD (2008), 96 pp.

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The Missing Link: Fostering Positive Citizen-State Relations in Post-Conflict Environments
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Henriette von Kaltenborn-Stachau

Washington, DC: World Bank, Communication for Governance and Accountability Program (CommGAP) (2008), 117 pp.

"Donor policies place great emphasis on the importance of state-building in post-Conflict states, and many donors also recognize the relevance civil society and a professional media sector have for successful transformation processes, says this report. However, operationally and conceptually these a ... more

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Freie Medien für ein liberales Afghanistan: Demokratisierung durch Journalismusförderung zwischen Theorie und Praxis

Maike Albrecht

Stuttgart: VDM Verlag Müller (2008), 106 pp.

"Die Arbeit untersucht, welche Rolle die Medien für die Demokratisierung des von 24 Jahren Krieg zerstörten Landes spielen können. Vor allem internationale Hilfsorganisationen sind gefordert, die aufkeimende afghanische Presse auf dem Weg zu Demokratie und Freiheit zu begleiten. Nach theoretische ... more

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Towards a New Model: Media and Communication in Post-Conflict and Fragile States
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Shanthi Kalathil, John Langlois, Adam Kaplan

Washington, DC: World Bank, Communication for Governance and Accountability Program (CommGAP) (2008), 105 pp.

"There is very little undestanding of the role that communicartion processes play in the numerous starnds of post-conflict reconstruction, including peacebuilding, governance, and long-term development. This paper addressess this gap by distilling lessons learned from the media and communication str ... more

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Managing Public Information in a Mediation Process
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The Missing Link: Fostering Positive Citizen-State Relations in Post-Conflict Environments
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Towards a New Model: Media and Communication in Post-Conflict and Fragile States
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