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In Search of Evidence: Media and Governance in Fragile States
Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 4, issue 2 (2014), 11 pp.
"This article reflects on efforts to identify evidence about the role of media in fragile states. It explores and compares findings from two research projects and focuses on some of the lessons that have emerged from these exercises as well as on the relevance of the findings for media development.
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Media Content in the Central African Crisis: An Overview and Solutions for Further Peace-Building and Governance Interventions
Internews Network (2014), 70 pp.
"News represents 23% of the total schedule on the six radio stations monitored [...] The situation of conflict had a direct influence on the subjects treated in news and information content with a focus 1) on the conflict (more than one third of news and information content) but not on grassroots co
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The Role of Information and Communication Technologies in Postconflict Reconstruction
Washington, DC: World Bank (2014), 99 pp.
"Examines how policymakers, the donor community, and the private sector have prioritized and sequenced ICT initiatives in the aftermath of conflict. Case studies look at countries at different stages of post-conflict reconstruction in Afghanistan, Liberia, Rwanda and Timor-Leste, and postrevolution
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Central African Republic: Supporting the Media and Humanitarian Information and Communication in a Complex Emergency. Roundtable Report, 5-6 February 2014, Yaoundé, Cameroon
International Media Support (IMS) (2014), 30 pp.
"This two-day roundtable brought together representatives from key organizations and institutions in CAR as well as representatives from international organizations currently operating in CAR. The aim was to address the needs for media support and humanitarian information and communication and to en
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Centrafrique: Etat des lieux du secteur médias
Marseille: Panos Europe (2014), 36 pp.
Media and Conflict in Myanmar: Opportunities for Media to Advance Peace
Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2014), 36 pp.
"This study is based on the Intended Outcomes Needs Assessment (IONA) methodology and assesses the changing relationships between media and conflict in Myanmar. Findings reveal a deeply rooted, intractable, and dynamic conflict landscape. Analysis focuses on three key conflicts: citizen-state, ethni
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Role of Media in Fostering Democracy in Afghanistan 2001 to 2013
University of Leicester, Master Thesis (2014), 103 pp.
"This dissertation is a study about the growth and development of media in Afghanistan and its role and contribution to national and international collective efforts to build a modern, stable and democratic Afghanistan in the last decade. In pursuing my dissertation, I have examined the Afghan media
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The US Influence in Shaping Iraq’s Sectarian Media
International Communication Gazette, volume 75, issue 4 (2013), pp. 374-391
"After the Anglo-American invasion, the US neo-conservative administration established the Iraqi Governing Council in July 2003, which included 25 members selected for their ethnic and religious origins; it was the most obvious sign of the US political separatist strategy. As a result of the new pol
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Public Diplomacy in Afghanistan beyond the 2014 Transition: Lessons from the United States and the Netherlands
The Hague: Netherlands Institute of International Relations 'Clingendael' (2013), 25 pp.
"The end of the security transition process in Afghanistan in 2014 marks the need to rethink foreign public diplomacy efforts in the country. As Afghanistan is entering its ‘transformational decade’, there is a unique opportunity to disconnect public diplomacy from the military–security paradi
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Towards a Diagnostic Approach to Media in Fragile States: Examples from the Somali Territories
Media, War & Conflict, volume 6, issue 3 (2013), pp. 279-293
"Media interventions by international organizations and NGOs in conflict and post-conflict situations seek to develop and shape a media system to contribute to specific political and social ends. The analyses and assessments that inform these interventions are often based on an overview of the forma
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The Media’s Reporting of War Crimes Trials and its Impact on Post-Conflict Democracy in Sierra Leone and Liberia
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 5, issue 1 (2013), pp. 53-67
"The application of international humanitarian law (IHL) to conflicts in Africa has been the subject of some scholarly and much journalistic discourse about the ending of ‘impunity’ and an extension of the normative principles of transitional justice. The trials conducted by the Special Court fo
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The Media of Iraq Ten Years On: The Problems, the Progress, the Prospects
London: BBC Media Action (2013), 35 pp.
"This briefing argues that the Iraqi media landscape of 2013 may not be the free, plural and professional fourth estate that many in the West had envisaged in 2003 but that it has real strengths – as well as weaknesses – which reflect the reality and complexity of modern Iraq. The seismic shift
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Somalia: Media Law in the Absence of a State
International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics, volume 8, issue 2-3 (2013), pp. 159-174
"Somalia is often described as ‘lawless’ or ‘the world’s most failed state’, a characterization that overlooks the way law and governance actually works in the absence of a capable central government. This article will explore the role of xeer law, or customary law, in regulating media, in
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Syria Media Map
Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR) (2013), 32 pp.
This report addresses the state of the media in Syria; the laws that regulate and restrict the media, and the attacks on the media and journalists. The report also provides a Media Map, a list of print and online publications, radio and TV stations in Syria. According to the conclusion, "the interna
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Media in Mali Divided by Conflict
Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS); Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA); Panos West Africa (2013), 37 pp.
Peace Through Peace Media? The Media Activities of the International Missions (KFOR and UNMIK) and Their Contribution to Peacebuilding in Kosovo from 1999 Till 2008
Berlin: Lit (2013), xvii, 317 pp.
"How does media contribute to peacebuilding and reconciliation in a post-conflict environment? This question will be answered in respect to the media produced by the UN and NATO mission in Kosovo (UNMIK and KFOR) from the year 1999 until 2008. The theoretical part of the text will deal with existing
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Medios, periodismo y conflicto armado: La agenda investigativa sobre la cobertura informativa del conflicto armado en Colombia, 2002-2012
Fundación para el Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano (FNPI) (2013), 56 pp.
"Los 89 textos analizados se pueden agrupar en tres tendencias principales. 'Las miradas al oficio: riesgos, libertades y garantías para informar en medio del conflicto' ofrece un recorrido por los trabajos que le toman el pulso al estado de la libertad de prensa en Colombia y que dan cuenta de las
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Fragile States: The Role of Media and Communication
London: BBC Media Action (2013), 27 pp.
"This briefing examines how current media trends are affecting state and societal fragility, both positively and negatively, and argues that the role of a free and plural media should be prioritised rather than marginalised in fragile states policy. The paper provides case studies on the role and im
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