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Journalism, Media and the Challenge of Human Rights Reporting

Versoix: International Council on Human Rights Policy (2002), xvi, 154 pp.

"Aiming to improve the quality and consistency of work within the area of human rights reporting, this report considers media's capacity to provide accurate, reliable, and timely information on issues that involve human rights. For this purpose, it provides an examination of the main issues as well ... more

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Media and Peacebuilding: Concepts, Actors and Challenges

Christoph Spurk

Bern: Swisspeace (2002), 58 pp.

"A concise overview looking at the approaches, activities, and challenges of governmental, international, and nongovernmental organizations in the field of media and peacebuilding." (commbox)

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Practical Guide for Journalists

Paris: Reporters Without Borders;UNESCO (2002), 104 pp.

"This guide is both ambitious and modest. Ambitious because it wants to help journalists working in war situations. Modest because we have no miracle solution to offer. But the suggestions you will find in this guide, based on an all too often ignored common sense, should help many reporters to stee ... more

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Using the Media for Conflict Transformation: The Common Ground Experience

Sandra D. Melone, Georgios Terzis, Ozsel Beleli

In: Berghof Handbook for Conflict Transformation

Berlin: Berghof Research Center for Constructive Conflicts Management (2002), 15 pp.

"The media cannot be neutral towards peace: While news journalists may react strongly against such a claim by holding their ’professional objectivity’ above everything else, they must realise that the way in which they report on and about a certain conflict can drastically affect the audience’ ... more

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An Operational Framework for Media and Peacebuilding

Ross Howard

Vancouver: Institute for Media, Policy and Civil Society (IMPACS) (2002), 27 pp.

"The framework provides some common indicators or consequences for the media in environments of pre-, overt and post-conflict. It presents a typology of interventions potentially appropriate to the media conditions that exist in those stages of conflict, or in others. It provides indicators for asse ... more

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Médias et construction de la paix dans la région des Grands Lacs: Rencontres entre professionnels des médias et acteurs de la société civile

Annick Jeantet (ed.)

Paris: Panos Paris (2002), 78 pp.

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Media and Peacebuilding: Workshop Report. Berne, 25th June 2002

Christoph Spurk, Michael Lund et al.

Bern: Swisspeace;KOFF (2002), 39 pp.

"In order to get a sound base for its future decisions on the role of media for peacebuilding, the Political Department IV of the Swiss Foreign Ministry has asked the swisspeace Center for Peacebuilding (KOFF) to initiate a process for compiling the current knowledge, existing experiences, and futur ... more

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Independent Program Evaluation: Search for Common Ground in Burundi 1999-2001

Amr Abdalla, Noa Davenport, Leslie McTyre, Steven A. Smith

Search for Common Ground (2002), 148 pp.

"Since 1995, Search for Common Ground (SFGC), a US non-profit organization based in Washington, DC, has implemented a program in Burundi with the goal of reducing ethnic conflict and encouraging reconciliation. To this end, SFGC currently runs four in-country programs: Studio Ijambo, an independent ... more

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Alles, was (Menschen-) Recht ist? Menschenrechtsberichterstattung in der deutschen Mediengesellschaft. Dokumentation eines Fachgespräches am 19. September 2001 in Berlin

Jochen Siemer, Peter Schlaffer (eds.)

Bonn: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES);Reporter ohne Grenzen (2002), 64 pp.

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IMS Report of the 2nd Copenhagen Conference on Emergency Assistance to Media, 6-7 October 2002

Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS) (2002), 14 pp.

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Media, Conflict and Terrorism: Challenges of the Media in Conflict Prevention, Conflict Resolution and Post-Conflict Rehabilitation. International Policy Dialogue, 7-8 May 2002, Bonn, Germany

Bonn: Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ);German Foundation for International Development (DSE);Deutsche Welle;United Nations University of Peace, Institute for Media, Peace & Security (2002), 127 pp.

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Beitrag der Medien zur Krisenprävention und Konfliktbearbeitung: Eine Analyse der internationalen Diskussion und Implementierungsmöglichkeiten mit Empfehlungen für die Technische Zusammenarbeit

Jörg Becker

Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) (2002), 71 pp.

"Kurze Darstellung und "lessons learned" von 7 Fallbeispielen, v.a. Radiosendern. Der Autor stellt u.a. fest: "Medienprojekte werden von westlichen NGOs erst dann gestartet, wenn ein gewaltsamer Konflikt vorbei ist. Medienprojekte mit ausgesprochenem Präventionscharakter sind nahezu unbekannt, auch ... more

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Sharing the Front Line and the Back Hills. International Protectors and Providers: Peacekeepers, Humanitarian Aid Workers and the Media in the Midst of Crisis

Yael Danieli (ed.)

Boca Raton; London; New York: CRC Press (2002), xiv, 429 pp.

"Sharing the Front Line and the Back Hills" points to a crisis facing international institutions and the media who seek to alleviate and report human suffering throughout the world. The goals of the editor are to tell the story of thousands of individuals dedicated to helping others; and to integrat ... more

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Reporting the World: A Practical Checklist for the Ethical Reporting of Conflicts in the 21st Century Produced by Journalists for Journalists

Jake Lynch

Taplow, Berkshire: Conflict and Peace Forums (2002), 103 pp.

Preparing for Battle: American news organizations lag behind some of their European counterparts when it comes to providing survival training and drafting safety guidelines for war correspondents. A group of journalists is pushing to narrow the gap

Sherry Ricchiardi

American Journalism Review, volume 24, issue 6 (2002), pp. 39-43

"The notion of survival skills and safety guidelines has been slow to catch on with top media managers in the United States. In Europe, the BBC, ITN and Reuters mandate training for foreign correspondents. It has taken an era of international terrorism to spark a stronger push on the home front." (A ... more

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Prensa y violencia política (1980-1995): Aproximación a las visiones de los derechos humanos en el Perú

Jorge Acevedo Rojas

Lima: Calandria (2002), 145 pp.

Analiza la conducta de los diarios "El Comercio", "La República" y "Expreso" en los años señalados y elabora un conjunto de reflexiones y propuestas respecto al rol de los medios de comunicación en el contexto de un proceso de transición de la democracia y una construcción de una cultura de pa ... more

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Evaluation of Talking Drum Studio - Sierra Leone

Amr Abdalla, Susan Shepler, Suleiman Hussein

Search for Common Ground (2002), ix, 96 pp.

"Talking Drum Studio - Sierra Leone (TDS-SL) began start-up operations in April 2000. Within a few months TDS-SL created five radio programming strands that are currently airing on eleven stations for a combined airtime of over 10 hours per week. Though each programming strand has a different format ... more

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