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Sudan’s Brief, Fragile Reform Window (2019–2021)
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2022), 32 pp.
"We find that there is a will for reform from the civilian part of the government, the international community, independent media professionals, and a handful of Sudanese CSOs. However, pushing for a free media is a low priority for most of the population, who have more urgent survival and security
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Transnational Othering – Global Diversities: Media, Extremism and Free Expression
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Göteborg: Nordicom (2019), 332 pp.
Afghanistan’s Fourth Estate: Independent Media
Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2015), 4 pp.
"Over the last decade, Afghanistan has experienced the rise of a robust media sector. Programming fills the airwaves with everything from news to comedy, open debate to open audition, soap operas to police dramas to ABCs. Journalists, however, operate in a climate of fear and insecurity, under threa
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Media Propaganda and Human Rights Issues: What Can be Learnt from the Former Yugoslavia’s Experience in Relation to the Current Developments in the Arab Spring Countries?
Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, volume 8, issue 1 (2015), pp. 21-36
"Recent history has proven that media propaganda can impact severely on human rights issues. This article aims at exploring what can be learnt from previous lessons in order to avoid the same mistakes happening again and/or to fight them more efficiently. It questions the experience of the former Yu
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Customary Law and Media Regulation in Conflict and Post-Conflict States
In: Routledge Handbook of Media Law
Monroe E. Price; Stefaan Verhulst; Libby Morgan (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2015), pp. 237-252
"In the process of drafting new media laws for states emerging from violent confl ict, or transitioning towards more democratic governments, the role of customary law is often overlooked. While “best practices” or international standards draw on widely accepted norms of international human right
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Hostages of Peace: The Politics of Radio Liberalization in Somaliland
Journal of Eastern African Studies, volume 7, issue 2 (2013), pp. 239-257
"Somaliland has held several competitive and multiparty elections that have been cited by international election monitors as being ‘‘free and fair.’’ While political competition has been tolerated, or even encouraged by the governments in power, there has been a continued reluctance to allow
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Global Media Policy and Crisis States
In: The Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy
Robin Mansell; Marc Raboy (eds.)
Malden, Mass.: Wiley Blackwell (2011), pp. 180-191
After the Hate Media: Regulation in the DRC, Burundi, Rwanda
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
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Press Freedom Post-Conflict: A Cause of Instability or Foundation of Democratic Development?
Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS) (2007), 25 pp.
"As outlined in the introductory presentation the paths to state failure are various. It is conceivable that corruption, inefficiency and the erosion of state control of the legitimate use of force could lead to the gradual erosion of state capacity. More common, as in the cases of Somalia, Liberia,
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Medienpolitik in Post-Konfliktstaaten: Beiträge zum politischen Wiederaufbau am Beispiel von Afghanistan
Duisburg: Institut für Entwicklung und Frieden (INEF) (2006), 44 pp.
"Die Annahme, dass eine kontrollierte Presse das Ziel einer Förderung demokratischer Strukturen immer ad absurdum führe, darf vor dem Hintergrund einer politischen Ausnahmesituation nach einem bewaffneten Konflikt durchaus hinterfragt werden. Die in diesem Zusammenhang geführte Diskussion über M
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Long Walks to Media Freedom: Case Studies and Lessons Learnt from Countries in Transition from Authoritarian Rule to Democracy
Bonn: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2003), 44 pp.
Forging Peace: Intervention, Human Rights and the Management of Media Space
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Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2002), 408 pp.
"The bloody conflicts of the past decade have focused international attention on the strategic role of the media in promoting war and perpetuating chaos. Written against this backdrop, Forging Peace brings together case studies and legal analysis of the steps that the United Nations, NATO, and other
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Nationalism and the Marketplace of Ideas
International Security, volume 21, issue 2 (1996), pp. 5-40
