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Report of the International Mission to Nepal for Promoting Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists

Toby Mendel (ed.)

Nepal International Media Partnership (NIMP); International Media Support (IMS) (2016), 25 pp.

"The primary objective of the 2015 NIMP Mission was to provide technical inputs to activities underway under UNESCO’s Safety of Journalists project, particularly in terms of setting up an independent national mechanism on safety at the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). Another key objective ... more

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An Overview of the Current Challenges to the Safety and Protection of Journalists

Cassie Clark

International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) (2016), 22 pp.

"This overview report highlights key themes that affect journalists’ safety globally, including: 1) impunity for crimes against journalists, which fosters killings and abductions; 2) the range of dangers facing journalists; 3) the lack of resources for comprehensive security training and the hands ... more

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Journalist Security in the Digital World: A Survey. Are We Using the Right Tools?

Javier Garza Ramos

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2016), 13 pp.

"This survey was designed to measure how journalists around the world take advantage of technology to enhance their security. The results suggest that there is a general lack of awareness about the power that digital tools have to improve a journalist’s protection. There are scores of organization ... more

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Supporting Safety of Journalists in Nepal: An Assessment Based on UNESCO’s Journalists’ Safety Indicators

Nirmala Mani Adhikary, Laxman Datt Pant

Paris: UNESCO (2016), 115 pp.

"This United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) report documents the national state of journalists' safety and the issue of impunity by providing an overview of the safety situation of journalists in Nepal. It also examines the context of safety and the responsibility ... more

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Supporting Safety of Journalists in Kenya: An Assessment Based on UNESCO’s Journalists’ Safety Indicators

George Nyabuga

Paris: UNESCO (2016), 106 pp.

"The study finds that Kenyan journalists face serious challenges in the course of their work. Further, both State and non-State actors have contributed to a deteriorating climate for journalists. The number of threats, incidents of harassment and intimidation as well as legal and personal attacks, h ... more

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The Safety of Journalists and the Danger of Impunity: Report by the Director-General to the Intergovernmental Council of the IPDC (thirtieth Session)
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UNESCO, International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) (2016), 67 pp.

"This report provides an overview of a decade of killings of journalists, media workers and social media producers, between 1 January 2006 and 31 December 2015. The extent of the risks faced by those exercising their right to express opinions and disseminate information is demonstrated by the figure ... more

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Conflict Sensitive Journalism: Best Practices and Recommendations

Mykhailo Buromensky, Serhy Shturkhetsky, Emma Beals, Zoya Kazanji, Michelle Betz, Chris Schuepp

Kyiv: OSCE; International Media Support (IMS) (2016), 101 pp.

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UN Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity
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United Nations (2016), 21 pp.

"The UN Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity is a systematic UN-wide plan to work toward a free and safe environment for journalists and media workers, including social media producers of public interest journalism, with a view to strengthen peace, democracy, and dev ... more

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Programa de protección para periodistas: Guía práctica

Caracas: Espacio Público (2016), 59 pp.

"La finalidad de este texto es que pueda servir para tener un protocolo rápido de acción para los casos que se describen, para la protección de los profesionales de la comunicación. Sin embargo, es necesario subrayar la importancia de contactar a una organización de derechos humanos ante cualqu ... more

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Women in war: Challenges and possibilities for female journalists covering wars and conflicts

Kristin Skare Orgeret

In: Freedom of Expression and Media in Transition: Studies and Reflections in the Digital Age

Ulla Carlsson (ed.)

Göteborg: Nordicom (2016), pp. 165-176

"The chapter takes as its starting point the notion that journalists’ safety is a precondition for free expression and free media. Based on interviews and discussions with experienced female war and conflict journalists from seven countries worldwide, the discussion evolves around questions linked ... more

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The Role of the United Nations Organization to Ensure the International Protection of Journalists in Non-International Armed Conflicts

Zeyad M. S. Jaffal

International Journal of Arts & Sciences, issue 1 (2016), pp. 95-110

"The non-international armed conflicts prevailing in the Middle East nowadays, have been witnessing a large number of atrocities committed against journalists. The study examined the extent to which international humanitarian law is able to provide special protection for Non-embedded (independent) j ... more

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Reporting is Becoming a Life Threatening Profession in Pakistan

Urooj Khan

Ma’arif Research Journal, volume 12 (2016), pp. 103-116

"The study is focusing ‘Reporting is becoming a life threatening profession in Pakistan’ as a topic for research. International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) declared Pakistan as one of the most dangerous countries for Journalists. Amnesty International called Khuzdar ‘a graveyard for Journa ... more

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Journalists and Media Staff Killed 1990 -2015: 25 Years of Contribution Towards Safer Journalism

Brussels: International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) (2016), 83 pp.

"The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has been publishing annual reports, of which this is the 25th, focusing on killing of journalists and media staff in work-related incidents since 1990. To date, the IFJ has recorded at least 2297 killings of these media professionals in targeted ass ... more

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Media Development and Countering Violent Extremism: An Uneasy Relationship, a Need for Dialogue

Courtney C. Radsch

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2016), 21 pp.

"This report describes how media development practitioners perceive the expansion of the Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) agenda’s influence into various aspects of their field, and the different and sometimes ambivalent ways in which they respond to these perceptions. Two conclusions emerge str ... more

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Implicit Counterinsurgency: Media, Development and Security in Afghanistan

Nicholas Ross Zevely

George Washington University, Master Thesis (2016), iv, 69 pp.

"This paper focuses on post-September 11, 2001 media assistance in Afghanistan at the confluence of the development and defense sectors, otherwise known as the security-development nexus. It is out of this nexus that a burgeoning press-state system developed amid an ongoing conflict between the Gove ... more

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Hate Spin: The Manufacture of Religious Offense and its Threat to Democracy

Cherian George

Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (2016), xviii, 308 pp.

"Outbreaks of religious intolerance are usually assumed to be visceral and spontaneous. But in 'Hate Spin', Cherian George shows that they often involve sophisticated campaigns manufactured by political opportunists to mobilize supporters and marginalize opponents. Right-wing networks orchestrate th ... more

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The Islamic State's Global Propaganda Strategy

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Nathaniel Barr, Bridget Moreng

The Hague: International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT) (2016), 83 pp.

"This Research Paper aims to analyse in depth the global propaganda strategy of the so-called “Islamic State” (IS) by looking at the methods through which this grand strategy is carried out as well as the objectives that IS wants to achieve through it. The authors first discuss IS’ growth mode ... more

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Beyond peace journalism: Reclassifying conflict narratives in the Israeli news media

Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt, Thomas Hanitzsch, Rotem Nagar

Journal of Peace Research, volume 53, issue 2 (2016), pp. 151-165

"This article presents a general framework for deconstructing and classifying conflict news narratives. This framework, based on a nuanced and contextual approach to analyzing media representations of conflict actors and events, addresses some of the weaknesses of existing classification schemes, fo ... more

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The Impact of Counter-Narratives: Insights from a Year-Long Cross-Platform Pilot Study of Counter-Narrative Curation, Targeting, Evaluation and Impact

Tanya Silverman, Christopher J. Stewart, Zahed Amanullah, Jonathan Birdwell

London: Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD); Against Violent Extremism (AVE) (2016), 52 pp.

"This report presents the development, deployment, and evaluation of three counternarrative campaigns orchestrated by Against Violent Extremism (AVE) network and Jigsaw (an incubator within Alphabet that uses technology to address geopolitical issues) with additional in-kind and financial support fr ... more

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The enigma of news media development with multi-pronged ‘capture’: The Afghanistan case

Jeannine E. Relly, Margaret Zanger

Journalism, volume 18, issue 10 (2016), pp. 1233-1255

"This qualitative study of influences on a purposive sample of Afghan journalists was carried out in the year after the US military mission was declared over. After more than a hundred million dollars of Western government funding had been invested in development of liberal democratic journalism, th ... more

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The Safety of Journalists and the Danger of Impunity: Report by the Director-General to the Intergovernmental Council of the IPDC (thirtieth Session)
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UN Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity
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