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How the UN Silenced Liberia’s Press
Foreign Policy, August 8 (2016)
"Few aspects of Liberian society have suffered more under UNMIL than the media, which is critical for any young democracy but all the more so for one emerging from civil war. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.N. mission itself, and other donors have spent more than $10 mil
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The United Nations and Freedom of Expression and Information: Critical Perspectives
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2015), xxiv, 508 pp.
"There are a multitude of UN legal instruments which pertain to the rights of freedom of expression and information, and this book is the first to comprehensively map them and their function. It details the chequered history of both rights within the UN system and evaluates the suitability of the sy
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Influencing the Information Domain: The United Nations’ Information Intervention in the Democratic Republic of Congo
In: Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa: Mediating Conflict in the Twenty-First Century
Winston Mano (ed.)
London: Tauris (2015), pp. 178-198
A Handbook for African Journalists on Multilateral Environmental Agreements
Nairobi: Environmental Compliance Institute; United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) (2015), 100 pp.
"This Handbook provides African journalists and other environmental practitioners with a user- friendly compilation of the key environmental issues affecting the African continent together with the multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) that address these issues. It is a quick, yet detailed, r
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Communication, Development, and Social Change: Future Alternatives
In: Global Communication: New Agendas in Communication
Karin Gwinn Wilkins, Joseph D. Straubhaar, Shanti Kumar (eds.)
New York; London: Routledge (2014), pp. 119-141
"To a certain extent the field's shortcomings could be the consequence of academic work increasingly trapped in the normativity of the development industry and out of touch with the variety of agents concerned with social injustice worldwide, who are deploying communication and media strategies to a
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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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UN Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity
Paris: International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) UNESCO (2012), 8 pp.
"The Plan of Action aims to creating of a free and safe environment for journalists and media workers, both in conflict and non-conflict situations, with a view to strengthening peace, democracy and development worldwide. Its measures include, among other undertakings, the establishment of a coordin
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Communication for Development: Strengthening the Effectiveness of the United Nations
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New York: Bureau for Development Policy UNDP (2011), ix, 127 pp.
This publication outlines four communication approaches used by United Nations organizations: (i) behaviour change communication; (ii) communication for social change; (iii) communication for advocacy; and (iv) strengthening an enabling media and communications environment. The second part provides
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OCHA Communications Handbook
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) (2011), 81 pp.
"OCHA uses communications to create awareness among target audiences (inside and outside the organization) about humanitarian emergencies, including natural disasters and complex emergencies, as well as their impact on vulnerable people. OCHA Communications Officers are charged with the task of brin
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Broadcasting in UN Blue: The Unexamined Past and Uncertain Future of Peacekeeping Radio
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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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Overview of UN Inter-Agency Round Tables on Communication for Development: Background Paper
Washington, DC: UNDP; World Bank (2009), 32 pp.
Fitting the Glas Slipper! Institutionalising Communication for Development Within the UN: Background Paper
Washington, DC: World Bank; UNDP (2009), 88 pp.
Development Communication: Reframing the Role of Media
Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley Blackwell (2009), xiii, 239 pp.
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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UNO in Afrika: Die Bedeutung der UNO und der "Fondation Hirondelle" für eine Friedensförderung durch Medien. Das Radio Okapi in Kongo-Zaire
Bochum: Bochumer Universitätsverlag (2008), 166 pp.
"Journalisten statt Soldaten", so könnte man die neuen Maßnahmen der Friedenförderung im heutigen unruhigen Kongo bezeichnen. Die Stiftung Hirondelle ist eine Initiative zur Friedenssicherung und Völkerverständigung mit Hilfe des Radios. Aus diesem Grund wurde das Konzept “Radio Okapi” entw
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Humanitarian Crises and Intervention: Reassessing the Impact of Mass Media
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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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Harnessing the UN System Into a Common Approach on Communication for Development
International Communication Gazette, volume 69, issue 6 (2007), pp. 483-507
"In the UN system, conflicts and contradictions seldom concern the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as such, but rather the means of achieving them. These differences of opinion about priorities, and about how much and to whom development aid or assistance should be directed, could be explained b
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United Nations Media Strategy: Recommendations for Improvement in Peacekeeping Operations. Case Study: UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo
Department of Peacekeeping Operations United Nations (2006), 47 pp.
"This paper looks at the structure and functioning of public information departments in peacekeeping operations, and at the relationship between the departments and the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) and the Department of Information (DPI) at Headquarters in New York. Wh
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Public Information as a Mission Critical Component of West African Peace Missions
Accra: Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) (2006), 72 pp.
The State of Communications in International Development and its Relevance to the Work of the United Nations
United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) (2005), 102 pp.
"In this study, the researcher examined the development of the various theoretical frameworks that define the practice of development communication, and then reached out to the international development community through a survey to discover: a) whether an assumption that development communication i
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