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The Handbook of Conflict and Peace Communication
Top Insights
Hoboken; Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2025), xxvi, 430 pp.
"This book offers an in-depth view of how intricate and intractable conflicts can be and how the communicative aspects of conflict are equally challenging. The author reviews and guides readers through classic and contemporary analysis in the field, providing a truly interdisciplinary work. Handbook
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Violences dans les médias en Afrique
Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, France: Editions Jets d'Encre (2024), 352 pp.
"Cet ouvrage scientifique, rigoureux et captivant explore ainsi les nombreuses facettes de la violence – telle qu’elle est médiatisée ou exprimée à travers des études sociologiques, des œuvres littéraires, musicales, historiques, culturelles et archivistiques, ou encore dans des TIC –,
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Cross-national civilian reporting of the everydayness of war: Emerging citizen journalism practices in Palestine and Kashmir
Journalism (2024), ?? pp.
"This article explores how Palestinian and Kashmiri civilians engage with the everyday reality of war. The focus is on understanding how citizens temporarily adopt the roles of war correspondents, contributing to the broader conflict narrative. Employing an inductive approach, the study integrates e
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Online Harassment, Psychological Stressors, and Occupational Dysfunction among Journalists Working in a Conflict Zone
Digital Journalism, volume 12, issue 6 (2024), pp. 735-752
"Amid increasing threats and assaults against journalists across the globe, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province in northwest Pakistan remains one of the most dangerous places in the world for journalists. Whereas online harassment is increasingly affecting journalists, experiences of online harassment
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‘They blame the messenger’: Re-examining the critique of journalists reporting on genocide in Rwanda and Srebrenica
Journalism, volume 25, issue 10 (2024), pp. 2117–2134
"Reporting on cases of genocide presents distinct complexities and challenges for journalists, who must negotiate practical, professional, and emotional experiences that challenge traditional expectations of their role. Previous research has provided strident critiques of this reporting, arguing Wes
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Shattered lives, unbroken stories: Journalists’ perspectives from the frontlines of the Israel–Gaza war
Online Media and Global Communication, volume 3, issue 2 (2024), pp. 151-180
"This study sheds light on the unprecedented complexities of the Israel–Gaza war, offering insights into the challenges that journalists face in this conflict zone. It employs the Hierarchy of Influences Model to analyze the factors influencing conflict reporting within the dynamic landscape of co
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Legal Strategies for Protecting Journalists in Conflict Zones
Interdisciplinary Studies in Society, Law, and Politics, volume 3, issue 2 (2024), pp. 25-31
"The safety of journalists in conflict zones remains a critical concern, with myriad risks stemming from both physical and digital threats. This study aims to explore the legal strategies that can effectively protect journalists in these environments, focusing on understanding the existing legal fra
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African Media Portrayals of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 2436-2455
"Much has been written about the media coverage of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. However, with few exceptions, much of this work has often focused on how the journalism fields from the global North framed the genocide, with little work on how African fields covered it. This article eschews th
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Insurgency in northeast Nigeria: Are journalists safe to report?
Journalism (2024), [no pag.]
"This article interrogates the effectiveness of the safety measures available for journalists in the challenging operational environment. The researchers conducted in-depth interviews with 16 journalists representing different organisations from the conflict-prone areas in northeast Nigeria. Finding
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The Routledge Companion to Journalism in the Global South
London; New York: Routledge (2024), xxiv, 491 pp.
"Responding to mounting calls to decenter and decolonize journalism, The Routledge Companion to Journalism in the Global South examines not only the deep-seated challenges associated with the historical imposition of Western journalism standards on constituencies of the Global South but also the opp
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Journalists and Exposure to Trauma: Exploring Perceptions of PTSD and Resilience Among Pakistan’s Conflict Reporters
Journalism Practice (2024), [no pag.]
"The study attempts to understand how Pakistani journalists perceive Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and resilience in the wake of covering traumatic events. Qualitative interviews of 32 Pakistani journalists were conducted who had covered military operations against militants. The findings in
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Conflict journalism, coloniality and election violence in Zimbabwe: The case for Ubuntu ethics
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 16, issue 3 (2024), pp. 303-320
"Drawing insights from decolonial theory and Ubuntu ethics, this article examines coloniality practices embedded in conflict journalism in Zimbabwe. It uses election violence reporting between 2000 and 2013 as a lens for gaining insights into how reporting conflicts perpetuates coloniality. How colo
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China, media, and international conflicts
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xii, 212 pp.
"This book focuses on China’s media diplomacy and its interplay with a range of international conflicts. It assesses the representation and framing of China, as well as the perception and reception of China’s media communication in relation to various crises and conflicts. Including detailed ana
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Syrian journalists covering the war: Assessing perceptions of fear and security
Media, War & Conflict, volume 16, issue 1 (2023), pp. 44-62
"This article analyses the dangers and threats faced by Syrian journalists covering the conflict since the pro-democracy protests erupted in March 2011. While most Western research on the Syrian Revolution has focused on the working difficulties faced by correspondents, parachutists or foreign freel
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Assessing the risks of journalists reporting in conflict zones: A case study of Somalia
International Journal of Advanced Mass Communication and Journalism, volume 4, issue 1 (2023), pp. 16-20
"This study was conducted to assess the risks journalists face while reporting in Somalia. It was guided by three specific objectives that included: evaluating the cases of physical attacks on journalists reporting in Somalia, analyzing the cases of arbitrary arrests and imprisonments of journalists
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Reporting Conflict from Afar: Journalists, Social Media, Communication Technologies, and War
Journalism Practice, volume 17, issue 2 (2023), pp. 300-318
"We conducted interviews with conflict journalists who covered the conflicts in Syria, Yemen, Libya, and Iraq and who work for the major international news agencies and media companies. These journalists did most of their reporting from remote locations as the conflict zones were too dangerous to be
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Friends like these: A shift in labour, security and the normative ideals of conflict journalism
International Communication Gazette, volume 85, issue 8 (2023), pp. 612-626
"This paper draws on previous work in the fields of conflict studies and journalism studies, as well as empirical work by the authors on the normative language of conflict journalism to argue that this subfield of journalism appears to have increasingly ‘moved house’ from the normative universe
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‘Forced to report’: Affective proximity and the perils of local reporting on Syria
Journalism, volume 24, issue 2 (2023), pp. 280–294
"Based on interviews with Syrian media practitioners, this article uses the notion of affective proximity to make sense of local media practitioners’ reporting and witnessing of suffering in their country and community. I argue that the life-risking, and sometimes deadly, media practices of local
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Ethics for Journalists
London; New York: Routledge, 3rd ed. (2023), xii, 259 pp.
"Ethics for Journalists critically explores many of the dilemmas that journalists face in their work and supports journalists in good ethical decision-making. From building trust, to combatting disinformation, to minimizing harm to vulnerable people through responsible suicide reporting, this book p
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Examining Violence against Journalists in Conflict Areas: Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan
Journal of Communication and Media Studies, volume 8, issue 2 (2023), pp. 49-64
"Due to the increasing number of journalists being killed, kidnapped, and imprisoned across the globe, the safety of journalists seems to be deteriorating. The level of violence against journalists varies over time and from area to area, even within the same country. This article analyzes the violen
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