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Media in Fragile Environments: The USIP Intended-Outcomes Needs Assessment Methodology
Key Guides
Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2011), 64 pp.
"Over the past twenty years, media interventions have become an accepted tool for conflict management. Interventions have often proven ineffective, however, because they lacked clear definition of their intended outcomes. This volume presents an Intended-Outcomes Needs Assessment methodology (IONA)
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17 February Revolution: Media in North-Eastern Libya
Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS) (2011), 16 pp.
Evaluating Media Interventions in Conflict Countries: Toward Developing Common Principles and a Community of Practice
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
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Global Media Policy and Crisis States
In: The Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy
Malden, Mass.: Wiley Blackwell (2011), pp. 180-191
Radio in Zones of Conflict: Abnormal Measures for Abnormal Circumstances
In: Radio in Africa: Publics, Cultures, Communities
Johannesburg: Wits University Press (2011), pp. 256-269
"A radio station for Somalis, by Somalis and about Somalis went on air on 1 March 2010. Radio Bar-Kulan ('meeting place' in Somali) uses FM, short wave, satellite and the internet to ensure that access is available to all who want it. The history of the station has its roots in peacekeeping. The suc
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Media and Peacebuilding in Afghanistan
Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2010), 5 pp.
"Since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, the Afghan media sector has experienced dramatic growth in all areas: television, radio, print, internet, mobile phones. As such, the sector holds tremendous potential for making significant contributions to peacebuilding in the country. However, the media sec
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"After the fall of Baghdad on April 9, 2003, Iraq's news media environment transformed almost overnight from the tightly controlled propaganda arm of Saddam Hussein's rule into one of the most diverse and unrestricted news environments in the Middle East. Built in an atmosphere of chaos and conflict
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Broadcasting in UN Blue: The Unexamined Past and Uncertain Future of Peacekeeping Radio
Deep Insights
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2010), 73 pp.
"For almost twenty years, United Nations peacekeeping missions have set up local radio stations in conflict-prone countries - 14 to date, seven of which remain in operation. According to this report, some of the fourteen peacekeeping radio stations implemented by the United Nations contributed more
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Make it Theirs: The Imperative of Local Ownership in Communications and Media Initiatives
Deep Insights
Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2010), 17 pp.
"This report presents the author's experiences regarding the relation of international interventions and local institutions in the (post-)conflict countries of Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, Sudan and Afghanistan. Haselock states that media reforms are most successful where they are the result of partnership
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Afghanistan Media Assessment: Opportunities and Challenges for Peacebuilding
Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2010), 40 pp.
"[...] International donor support for Afghanistan's media has had two primary goals. The short-term goal has been to counteract the effects of insurgent communications in order to win the hearts and minds of the Afghan people. The long-term goal has been to create a free and independent media secto
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One Size Does Not Fit All: Objectives and Priority Areas for Media Assistance in Different Societies
Deep Insights
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2009), 39 pp.
"The essential thesis of this paper is that the requirements and problems of the media sector differ substantially from country to country according to its political, social and economic conditions: in authoritarian states the scope and intensity of media assistance is quite limited, whereas democra
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'The Pathology of Media Intervention in Iraq 2003-2008: The US Attempt to Restructure Iraqi Media Law and Content
International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies, volume 3, issue 1 (2009), pp. 27-52
"This study analyzes US attempts to remake the Iraqi mediascape, its law and content between 2003 and 2008. It concludes that post-invasion media development was so poorly structured and implemented that it was doomed from the start. This is true despite and because of the millions of dollars spent
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Digital Media in Conflict-Prone Societies
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2009), 38 pp.
"Much violent conflict today takes place in or near civilian populations with access to global information networks, so the information gathered by various parties to conflict may potentially be distributed in real time around the globe. The ability to communicate, and to produce and receive diverse
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Radio, Newspaper and More: Media Tools for Peace. Experiences from the Field, 2002-2008
Neuwied: Eirene (2009), 51 pp.
"This publication provides examples of the way in which media can be used for the non-violent management of regional conflicts. Practitioners from radio initiatives in Chad, Niger, Mali and the Democratic Republic of Congo report their experiences regarding the function and perception of the media i
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Radio, Journaux & Co.: Instruments De Paix. Expériences De Terrain, 2002 à 2008
Neuwied: Eirene (2009), 51 pp.
Radio for Peace Building: Project Evaluation Report
Washington, DC; Brussels: Search for Common Ground (2008), 35 pp.
Towards a New Model: Media and Communication in Post-Conflict and Fragile States
Deep Insights
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
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