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Use and Abuse of Media in Vulnerable Societies
Deep Insights
Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2003), 15 pp.
"Analyzing the “clues to conflict” in vulnerable societies can enable policymakers to identify societies that are particularly vulnerable to media abuse and decide on the most appropriate type and timing of media interventions. These clues are divided into two categories. Structural indicators c
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Evaluation of Talking Drum Studio - Sierra Leone
Search for Common Ground (2002), ix, 96 pp.
"Talking Drum Studio - Sierra Leone (TDS-SL) began start-up operations in April 2000. Within a few months TDS-SL created five radio programming strands that are currently airing on eleven stations for a combined airtime of over 10 hours per week. Though each programming strand has a different format
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Independent Program Evaluation: Search for Common Ground in Burundi 1999-2001
Search for Common Ground (2002), 148 pp.
"Since 1995, Search for Common Ground (SFGC), a US non-profit organization based in Washington, DC, has implemented a program in Burundi with the goal of reducing ethnic conflict and encouraging reconciliation. To this end, SFGC currently runs four in-country programs: Studio Ijambo, an independent
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Media and Peacebuilding: Workshop Report. Berne, 25th June 2002
Bern: Swisspeace; KOFF (2002), 39 pp.
"In order to get a sound base for its future decisions on the role of media for peacebuilding, the Political Department IV of the Swiss Foreign Ministry has asked the swisspeace Center for Peacebuilding (KOFF) to initiate a process for compiling the current knowledge, existing experiences, and futur
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Media and Peacebuilding: Concepts, Actors and Challenges
Bern: Swisspeace (2002), 58 pp.
"A concise overview looking at the approaches, activities, and challenges of governmental, international, and nongovernmental organizations in the field of media and peacebuilding." (commbox)
Forging Peace: Intervention, Human Rights and the Management of Media Space
Deep Insights
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2002), 408 pp.
"The bloody conflicts of the past decade have focused international attention on the strategic role of the media in promoting war and perpetuating chaos. Written against this backdrop, Forging Peace brings together case studies and legal analysis of the steps that the United Nations, NATO, and other
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Using the Media for Conflict Transformation: The Common Ground Experience
In: Berghof Handbook for Conflict Transformation
Berlin: Berghof Research Center for Constructive Conflicts Management (2002), 15 pp.
"The media cannot be neutral towards peace: While news journalists may react strongly against such a claim by holding their ’professional objectivity’ above everything else, they must realise that the way in which they report on and about a certain conflict can drastically affect the audience’
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Beitrag der Medien zur Krisenprävention und Konfliktbearbeitung: Eine Analyse der internationalen Diskussion und Implementierungsmöglichkeiten mit Empfehlungen für die Technische Zusammenarbeit
Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) (2002), 71 pp.
"Kurze Darstellung und "lessons learned" von 7 Fallbeispielen, v.a. Radiosendern. Der Autor stellt u.a. fest: "Medienprojekte werden von westlichen NGOs erst dann gestartet, wenn ein gewaltsamer Konflikt vorbei ist. Medienprojekte mit ausgesprochenem Präventionscharakter sind nahezu unbekannt, auch
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Mapping Media Assistance
Deep Insights
Oxford; Philadelphia: University of Oxford, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Progamme in Comparative Media Law and Policy; Annenberg School for Communication (2002), 62 pp.
"The purpose of this study is to provide a ‘map’ of media assistance. Like all maps, this one has artificial limitations. It is confined largely to the post-Soviet period. It is a map of media assistance efforts, based almost wholly on experiences on activities emanating from Europe and the Unit
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Lifeline Media: Reaching Populations in Crisis. A Guide to Developing Media Projects in Conflict Situations
Key Guides
Versoix: Media Action International (2001), 226 pp.
"This guide considers the role of media in conflict and crisis areas, examines media projects established to provide information to affected populations in conflict situations, either during crisis or in the post-conflict period. Its four main sections discuss: Designing programmes for populations i
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Restructuring the Media in Post-Conflict Societies: Four Perspectives. The Experience of Intergovernmental and Non-Governmental Organizations. A Background Paper for the UNESCO World Press Day Conference in Geneva
Oxford: Cardozo Online Journal of Conflicts Resolution (2000), 56 pp.
"A great deal has now been written about the patterns of media exploitation as they contribute to a vortex of destruction. Less has been elaborated about the efforts of international governmental organisations ("IGOs") and non-governmental organisations ("NGOs") to intervene so as to maintain a more
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Working with the Media in Conflicts and Other Emergencies
London: Department for International Development (DFID) (2000), 70 pp.
"The main purpose of this guide is to highlight some of the benefits, challenges and options when considering funding of media and communication interventions. This publication is not designed to be a ‘how to’ guide for designing and implementing such programmes. Rather, it aims to guide DFID st
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Information Intervention: Bosnia, the Dayton Accords, and the Seizure of Broadcasting Transmitters
Cornell International Law Journal, volume 33, issue 1 (2000), pp. 67-112
"The international mission, as U.S. and Western representatives saw it, was to reconstruct a viable multi-ethnic media, as well as to prevent further conflict. NATO was seeking to build, under the Dayton Accords, a plural society out of pieces that seemed fractured beyond repair. The OHR believed th
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Peacekeeping and Public Information: Caught in the Crossfire
London: Frank Cass (1999), 175 pp.
"This is an important and brave book. It is important because it is fresh, analytical and identifies the grave shortcomings in the handling of information and the media by the UN in conflicts and emergencies. It is brave because it is written by an insider who knows the deficiencies and wants organi
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Evaluation of Fondation Hirondelle Star Radio Project
Washington, DC: International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES) (1999), 67 pp.
