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CDAC Facilitator’s Guide for Technical Training
London: Communicating with Disaster Affected Communities (CDAC) (2019), 21 pp.
"The core document of CDAC’s technical training is the facilitator’s guide – a document that leads facilitators, agencies and staff through an all-inclusive journey in communication and community engagement best practice. The guide aspires to: Provide information for people affected by disaste
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Communication During Disaster Recovery
Key Guides
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) (2019), 28 pp.
"This Guide provides practical guidance for governments regarding how to effectively communicate with communities during the recovery phase following an emergency. It explains how to identify communication needs, and presents “best fit” communication methods and strategies to deploy to support D
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Politics, Factions and Violence: Listening to Local Voices on Ebola
Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform (SSHAP) (2019), 13 pp.
"This brief summarises local media and messages circulating via social media outlets including WhatsApp and local radio and press outlets in the Beni and Butembo areas of North Kivu, DRC between February and April 2019. It also captures the growing number of warning messages and written threats tran
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"We Have Failed as a Continent:" Covering an African Atrocity for an African Audience
In: Media and Mass Atrocity: The Rwanda Genocide and Beyond
Waterloo, Ontario: Centre for International Governance Innovation (2019), pp. 237-252
"This ethnic conflict frame performs three functions when used by African journalists. The first is that it works to domesticate the conflict [in Darfur] by relying on already sedimented knowledge among African audiences about identity formation … The second function of this frame is based on know
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Suffering in Silence: The 10 Most Under-Reported Humanitarian Crises of 2018
Care International (2019), 19 pp.
"Some crises receive less media coverage than others. Displacement in the Democratic Republic of Congo rivals that of Syria but has received far less attention. In the Central African Republic widespread starvation has set in, which has gone largely unnoticed. And while the catastrophic 2010 earthqu
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Communication-Related Vulnerability to Disasters: A Heuristic Framework
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, volume 51, issue 92 (2019), 9 pp.
"The concept of social vulnerability has been increasingly applied in disaster literature, but its communicative drivers have remained understudied. In this article, we put forward a heuristic framework for explaining how communication-related factors may adversely affect people’s capacity to prep
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Communicating During Humanitarian Medical Crises: The Consequences of Silence or "Témoignage"
Lanham; Boulder; New York: Lexington Books (2019), ix, 294 pp.
"The Promise and Perils of " Silence" or " Temoignage" During Humanitarian Crises provides readers with a nuanced study of what happens when historical and 21st century medical humanitarian communities, armed with their idealistic rhetorics, choose whether to speak out or remain silent during variou
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Risk Communication and Community Resilience
London; New York: Routledge (2019), xxiii, 288 pp.
"Risk communication is crucial to building community resilience and reducing risk from extreme events. True community resilience involves accurate and timely dissemination of risk information to stakeholders. This book examines the policy and science of risk communication in the digital era. Themes
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Marketplace of Ideas or Little Shop of Horrors? Comparing US News Coverage of Local and Distant Suffering
In: Media and Mass Atrocity: The Rwanda Genocide and Beyond
Waterloo, Ontario: Centre for International Governance Innovation (2019), pp. 393-412
"While we might blame news audiences for their short-lived engagement with foreign crises, their reactions are far less surprising when we look carefully at what news stories truly communicate to readers. As illustrated above, the subtle lessons the news media teach audiences about foreign crises wo
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Humanitarianism and Media: 1900 to the Present
New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2019), viii, 305 pp.
"From Christian missionary publications to the media strategies employed by today’s NGOs, this interdisciplinary collection explores the entangled histories of humanitarianism and media. It traces the emergence of humanitarian imagery in the West and investigates how the meanings of suffering and
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Journalism on Darfur Between Social Fields: Global and National Forces
In: Media and Mass Atrocity: The Rwanda Genocide and Beyond
Waterloo, Ontario: Centre for International Governance Innovation (2019), pp. 237-252
"In presenting some of the findings from an analysis of 3,387 media reports and from interviews with Africa correspondents and other journalists from eight countries, this chapter provides several insights on patterns of media representations of the conflict in Darfur. After initial neglect, peaks i
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"Technology has driven major change in some areas of humanitarian response, but its use can also be biased and blind to risks. A tendency towards techno-optimism risks avoiding fundamental questions around the limits of technology, the role of the private sector (including local and regional technol
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Guidance on Reporting Major Incidents
Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) (2019), 11 pp.
"There is a public interest in the reporting of major incidents, to inform the public of what has happened and over time allow the public to make sense of those events. Legitimate reporting of major incidents will often include approaches to individuals who have witnessed or been otherwise affected
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Managing Misinformation in a Humanitarian Context: Internews Rumour Tracking Methodology. Part III: How to Guide
Key Guides
Internews (2019), 61 pp.
"You will find information and advice on everything from how to source rumours and factcheck information, to how to share actionable and practical answers to address these rumours. Internews Rumour Tracking Methodology is designed to be flexible and responsive to local context – and you should be
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Il faut qu’on parle : La communication efficace sur les risques liés au virus Ebola nécessite à la fois du respect et de la transparence et demeure plus vitale que jamais. Évaluation des besoins et des préférences de communication changeants à Beni, Nord-Kivu
Translators Without Borders (2019), 44 pp.
"Les entretiens menés en septembre 2019 avec des communicateurs en santé et des résidents ont révélé que les barrières linguistiques empêchent la compréhension d’informations cruciales sur l’Ebola. Les informations diffusées en français et en swahili ne sont pas comprises par tout le
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"Humanitarian journalism can be defined, very broadly, as the production of factual accounts about crises and issues that affect human welfare. This can be broken down into two broad approaches: “traditional” reporting about humanitarian crises and issues, and advocacy journalism that aims to im
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Materiales educativos digitales para periodistas sobre gestión de riesgo de desastres: Avances y limitaciones
Revista Espanõla de Communicación en Salud, issue Suplemento 1 (2019), pp. 30-42
"A partir de un análisis de contenido realizado a 28 materiales educativos digitales para formar periodistas de Latinoamérica sobre el cubrimiento de la Gestión del Riesgo de Desastres entre 2012 y 2018, el presente artículo pretende establecer si el enfoque de dichos recursos pedagógicos es co
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Community Radio and Crisis Communication: A Study on the Reach and Effectiveness of Peridar Kaala Vaanoli 107.8 MHz
Media Asia, volume 46, issue 3-4 (2019), pp. 102-116
"A community radio (CR) station stands as a lifeline for information and communication to the remote, marginalized and the most vulnerable during natural disasters like the Tamil Nadu Floods in 2015. As a result of this, a license was granted to allow the operation of an emergency community radio st
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Collective Communication and Community Engagement in Humanitarian Action: How to Guide for Leaders and Responders
Key Guides
CDAC Network (2019), 75 pp.
"This guide suggests practices to support an active role for communities in humanitarian services and decision-making, improve access to information and keep people connected to support their own ways of coping. It emphasises a collective approach where humanitarian actors coordinate, collaborate an
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Comprensión y compasión: El hambre en la prensa de referencia
Covilhã (PO): Universidade da Beira Interior (2019), 622 pp.
