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Genocide: Truth, Memory, and Representation
Durham: Duke University Press (2009), 349 pp.
"What happens to people and the societies in which they live after genocide? How are the devastating events remembered on the individual and collective levels, and how do these memories intersect and diverge as the rulers of postgenocidal states attempt to produce a monolithic "truth" about the past
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Peace and Communication in Post-Conflict Africa
Africa Media Review, volume 17, issue 1-2 (2009), pp. 1-126
Media Sustainability Index 2008: Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Africa
Washington, DC: IREX (2009), xix, 411 pp.
Global Information Society Watch 2009: Focus on Access to Online Information and Knowledge – Advancing Human Rights and Democracy
Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Hivos (2009), 231 pp.
"GISWatch has three interrelated goals: surveying the state of the field of information and communications technology (ICT) policy at local and global levels; encouraging critical debate; strengthening networking and advocacy for a just, inclusive information society. Each year the report focuses on
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A People Betrayed: The Role of the West in Rwanda's Genocide
London; New York: Zed Books, new updated ed. (2009), vii, 370 pp.
"In this classic of investigative journalism, Linda Melvern tells the compelling story of what really happened, revealing both the scale, speed and intensity of the unfolding genocide, as well as exposing the governments and individuals who could have prevented what was happening, if they had chosen
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L’état de la liberté de la presse en Afrique centrale. Rapport annuel 2009
Kinshasa: Journaliste en Danger (JED) (2009), 110 pp.
Local Violence, Global Media: Feminist Analyses of Gendered Representations
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2009), viii, 276 pp.
"While there exists a wide range of material covering violence against women, very little scholarly attention has been paid to international media treatments of gendered violence. This volume addresses the gap by providing a broad overview of contemporary representations of gendered violence, enabli
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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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Images et paix: Les Rwandais et les Burundais face au cinéma et à l'audiovisuel
Deep Insights
Leuven: Afrika Filmfestival (2008), 605 pp.
"Les Rwandais et les Burundais ont une culture cinématographique et audiovisuelle captivante et centenaire. Elle a été introduite pendant l’époque coloniale allemande et est ensuite tombée dans les mains des Belges qui l’ont développée après. Au Rwanda/Burundi, ils produisaient des films
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Humanitarian Crises and Intervention: Reassessing the Impact of Mass Media
Deep Insights
Sterling: Kumarian Press (2008), xiv, 335 pp.
"This book takes a unique and comprehensive look at how the international community, led by the US, responded to ten humanitarian crises of the last decade and how major media outlets played a role in influencing (or failing to influence) action. Crises examined include Liberia, East Timor, Somalia,
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Media Sustainability Index 2006/2007: Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Africa
Washington, DC: IREX (2008), xix, 385 pp.
Pursuing Just Peace: An Overview and Case Studies for Faith-Based Peacebuilders
Baltimore: Catholic Relief Services (CRS) (2008), 158 pp.
"The volume begins with a general overview of faith-based peacebuilding by pastor and peace-practitioner David Steele. Several CRS staff members provided input on the early drafts [...] The case studies that follow all deal with initiatives involving Catholic actors. This is the tradition out of whi
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Textbooks and School Library Provision in Secondary Education in Sub-Saharan Africa
Washington, DC: World Bank, Secondary Education in Africa (SEIA), Africa Region Human Development Department (2008), xxxii, 98 pp.
"This World Bank study discusses secondary textbook and school library availability in Africa, its cost and financing, and its distribution and publishing. The study’s objective was to analyze the issues and provide some options and strategies for improvement. Reforms are urgently required in the
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Reloaded – Internationaler Dokumentarfilm
iz3w, issue 302 (2007), pp. 16-37
"Dokumentarfilme boomen: In den vergangenen Jahren schafften es nicht nur viele ins Kino, auch die FilmtheoretikerInnen brachten ihnen eine erhöhte Aufmerksamkeit entgegen. Dies ist vor allem darauf zurückzuführen, dass Dokumentarfilme das starre Korsett, Repräsentationen der Wirklichkeit zu sei
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Prejudice, Conflict and Media. Reducing Intergroup Prejudice and Conflict Using the Media: A Field Experiment in Rwanda
Harvard: Harvard University, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (2007), 64 pp.
"Can the media reduce intergroup prejudice and conflict? Despite the high stakes of this question, understanding of the mass media’s role in shaping prejudiced beliefs, norms, and behaviors is very limited. A year-long field experiment in Rwanda tested the impact of a radio soap opera about two Rw
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What is the Relationship Between Hate Radio and Violence? Rethinking Rwanda's "Radio Machete"
Politics & Society, volume 35 (2007), pp. 609-637
"The importance of hate radio pervades commentary on the Rwandan genocide, and Rwanda has become a paradigmatic case of media sparking extreme violence. However, there exists little social scientific analysis of radio's impact on the onset of genocide and the mobilization of genocide participants. T
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The Media and Conflicts in Central Africa
Deep Insights
Boulder, Colo.; London: Rienner; Panos Paris (2007), vii, 287 pp.
"This in-depth investigation of the role that local news media play in Central African conflicts combines theoretical analysis with case studies from nine African countries: Burundi, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Republi
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The Media and the Rwanda Genocide
Deep Insights
London; Kampala; Ottawa: Pluto Press; Fountain Publishers; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2007), xvi, 463 pp.
"This book examines the crucial role the media played in the 1994 Rwanda genocide, bringing together local reporters and commentators from Rwanda, Western journalists, and media theorists. Part One (eight articles) describes and analyzes "Hate Media in Rwanda", mainly, but not exclusively, focusing
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