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ISIS Propaganda: A Full-Spectrum Extremist Message
New York: Oxford University Press (2020), xii, 287 pp.
"This book offers a comprehensive overview and analysis of the Islamic State's use of propaganda. Combining a range of different theoretical perspectives from across the social sciences, and using rigorous methods, the authors trace the origins of the Islamic State's message, laying bare the strateg
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Jihadi Audiovisuality and its Entanglements: Meanings, Aesthetics, Appropriations
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2020), xvi, 328 pp.
Media/communications on peacebuilding/social cohesion/changing prevailing narratives on conflict
Deep Insights
Brighton, UK: Institute of Development Studies (IDS) (2020), 22 pp.
"The media can play a positive role in peacebuilding/conflict prevention. Recognition of this has led to increasing programmes on media/communications and peacebuilding, with common interventions including training of journalists, and development of pro-peace programme content. However, there are si
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Narrativas de paz, voces y sonidos: Análisis de la paz en Colombia, desde la comunicación
Bogotá: Ediciones Desde Abajo; Revista Latina de Comunicación Social; Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2020), 247 pp.
"La violencia armada tiene también una dimensión narrativa, acaso tan devastadora como su dimensión física. No sólo destruye vidas y altera relaciones, sino que su ejercicio –especialmente cuando es sistemático– quiebra la propia posibilidad de otra narrativa que logre articular algún sen
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Propaganda des „Islamischen Staats“: Formen und Formate
Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2020), vi, 411 pp.
"Die Propaganda der terroristischen Miliz "Islamischer Staat" hat für Aufsehen gesorgt und die Debatte um das Internet und vor allem das "Social Web" als Risikotechnologie oder Gefahrenraum mitbestimmt. Dabei setzt der IS auf ein breites Spektrum medialer und gestalterischer Formen und Formate eine
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Jemen: Der vergessene Krieg
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2020), 261 pp.
"Said AlDailami untersucht die tiefen Konfliktlinien entlang von konfessionellen, regionalen und tribalen Zugehörigkeiten sowie wirtschaftlichen Interessen, um auszuloten, wie und wann Frieden möglich werden könnte. Zahlreiche äußere Mächte – wie Saudi-Arabien, die Vereinigten Arabischen Emi
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New Media and Revolution: Resistance and Dissent in Pre-Uprising Syria
Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press (2020), 296 pp.
"Investigating the root causes of the Syrian uprising of 2011, New Media and Revolution shows how acts of online resistance prepared the ground for better-organised street mobilisation. The book interprets the uprising not as the start of Syria’s social mobilisation but as a shift from online to o
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Fighting Misinformation and Defending Free Expression During COVID-19: Recommendations for States
Access Now (2020), 20 pp.
"In this paper, we provide recommendations for protecting freedom of expression and opinion and the right to impart and receive information to enable governments to fight the COVID-19 health crisis in a rights-respecting manner. There will be an aftermath to the COVID-19 outbreak and the measures go
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Pioneering Peace Pathways: Making Connections to End Violent Conflict
Accord (Conciliation Resources), issue 29 (2020), 121 pp.
"Video Unavailable": Social Media Platforms Remove Evidence of War Crimes
New York: Human Rights Watch (2020), 94 pp.
"Social media platforms are taking down “terrorist and violent extremist content” more and more quickly, often in response to the demands of governments, but in a way that prevents the content from being used to support investigations into serious crimes, including war crimes. “Video Unavailab
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Rechte Ego-Shooter: Von der virtuellen Hetze zum Livestream-Attentat
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2020), 208 pp.
"Rechtsextremistisch, antisemitisch oder rassistisch motivierten Anschlägen fielen seit 2019 in Neuseeland, den USA, Norwegen und Deutschland 86 Menschen zu Opfer. Die Täter verbindet nicht nur ihr Hass, sondern ebenso ihre Radikalisierung im Internet. Sie alle fanden zuvor in einschlägigen Foren
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Practitioner‘s Toolkit: Dealing with the Past
Cologne: Academy for Conflict Transformation (2020), 23 pp.
"Societies attempting to ignore atrocities committed in the conflict setting generally find themselves confronted by their persistence. Whether manifesting as unresolved grievance, as social dysfunctionality or an easy reversion to violence, or as a simple reiteration of old animosities, the eventua
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Safety of Journalists Covering Protests: Preserving Freedom of the Press During Times of Turmoil
Paris: UNESCO (2020), 16 pp.
"Key trends: Harassment, arrests and physical violence against journalists, mostly by government security forces and sometimes by protestors, have risen in recent years; Press freedom and freedom of expression has been impacted in many countries by these attacks; A range of attacks have been identif
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The danger of words: Major challenges facing Myanmar journalists on reporting the Rohingya conflict
Media Asia, volume 47, issue 1 (2020), pp. 4-22
"Due to the fighting between the Myanmar Army and the Rohingya militant group Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) in August 2017, hundreds of thousands of stateless Rohingya Muslims fled to Bangladesh. The Myanmar Army was accused of committing torture, atrocities, arson and gang-rapes against the
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Subversion im Cyberraum: Sicherheit, Freiheit und Resilienz gegen Angriffe im Netz
Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2020), 59 pp.
"Die technischen Möglichkeiten der Cyberwelt haben gänzlich neue Potenziale zur Beeinflussung von politischen Präferenzen in anderen Staaten eröffnet. Die Meinungsbildung in offenen Gesellschaften wird zunehmend durch subversive Maßnahmen autoritärer Regime im Internet beeinflusst, wodurch der
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Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists
Deep Insights
London et al.: Bloomsbury (2020), viii, 348 pp.
"By day, Julia Ebner works at a counter-extremism think tank, monitoring radical groups from the outside. But two years ago, she began to feel she was only seeing half the picture; she needed to get inside the groups to truly understand them. She decided to go undercover in her spare hours – late
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Documenting Trauma in Comics: Traumatic Pasts, Embodied Histories, and Graphic Reportage
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xxi, 345 pp.
"Why are so many contemporary comics and graphic narratives written as memoirs or documentaries of traumatic events? Is there a specific relationship between the comics form and the documentation and reportage of trauma? How do the interpretive demands made on comics readers shape their relationship
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Peace Journalism
"Framing effects research has found that news consumers respond to journalists’ framing of a socially important event rather than to the actual event itself. Peace journalism, as a conscious and deliberate act by journalists, can offer significant insights on a hitherto unexplored aspect of framin
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