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Learning to Live Together: Using Distance Education for Community Peacebuilding
Deep Insights

Rawwida Baksh, Tanyss Munro (eds.)
Vancouver: Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2009), viii, 244 pp.
"The book brings together a range of community peacebuilding experiences that apply open and distance learning. The emphasis on community requires distance educators to change focus. The book addresses how to help a community articulate its own purposes for learning and then support it in achieving ... more
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An Assessment of the Role of Community Radio in Peacebuilding and Development: Case Studies in Liberia and Sierra Leone

Brussels; Washington, DC: Search for Common Ground (2009), 5 pp.
"This five-page report details the results of an evaluation of four community radio stations in rural Sierra Leone and Liberia. The evaluation focused on areas still struggling to achieve meaningful development in a post-conflict setting and was designed to assess the relationships between drivers o ... more
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Ein Leuchtturm mit Stromschwankungen: Die Rolle der Medien bei der Entwicklung einer demokratischen Kultur

Reinhard Wagner
DED-Brief, issue 2 (2009), pp. 42-43
"In den vergangenen Jahren hat Ghana einen großen Sprung gemacht, was die Achtung der Pressefreiheit und der Menschenrechte betrifft. Aber eine grundlegende qualitative Verbesserung der Medienlandschaft würde beinhalten, dass sich die Journalisten ihrer verantwortungsvollen Rolle in einer Demokrat ... more
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Change at Hand: Web 2.0 for Development

Holly Ashley, Jon Corbett, Ben Garside, Giacamo Rambaldi (eds.)
London; Wageningen: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED); Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) (2009), 136 pp.
"Web 2.0 for development (Web2forDev) is a way of employing web services to intentionally improve information-sharing and collaborative production of content for development. It is about how development actors can relate and connect to other stakeholders, produce and publish their own material, deci ... more
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Islamic Renewal, Radio, and the Surface of Things

Brian Larkin
In: Aesthetic Formations: Media, Religion, and the Senses
Birgit Meyer (ed.)
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2009), pp. 117-136
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La loi et les medias en Mauritanie

Legon (GH): Fondation pour les Médias en Afrique de l’Ouest (2009), 44 pp.
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Building Commitment to Reform Through Strategic Communication: The Five Key Decisions
Key Guides

Cecilia Cabañero-Verzosa, Helen Garcia
Washington, DC: World Bank (2009), xiii, 133 pp.
"The Five Communication Management Decision Tool helps reformers and their teams develop a framework for their communication strategies. This decision tool helps managers see change initiatives through the eyes of those who will be affected by the reforms. When the decision tool is used in the early ... more
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Les radios communautaires: Outils de promotion pour la paix, la culture, la démocratie et le développement en Afrique

Abdou Sarr
Association de Lutte contre la Faim et la Pauvreté (ALFP) (2009), 198 pp.
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Internationales Handbuch Medien

Hans-Bredow-Institut
Christiane Matzen; Anja Herzog (eds.)
Baden-Baden: Nomos, 28th ed. (2009), 1308 pp.
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Peace and Communication in Post-Conflict Africa

Africa Media Review, volume 17, issue 1-2 (2009), pp. 1-126
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African Digital Media and the Public Sphere

Okoth Fred Mudhai, Wisdom J. Tettey, Fackson Banda (eds.)
New York; Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2009), xv, 260 pp.
"This book examines, from theoretical and empirical perspectives, the claims that new information and communication technologies (ICTs) are catalysts of democratic change in Africa. Contributors do so from optimist, pragmatist-realist, and pessimist stances through analyses of various forms of evide ... more
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Politiques publiques et participation citoyenne des femmes aux radios communautaires au Sénégal: Impacts sur les droits économiques et civils

Yasmine Smirès
Québec: Université de Laval, Québec (2009), 151 pp.
"La radio, un élément primordial du paysage médiatique africain, a connu un développement fulgurant dans les années 1990, avec la transition démocratique connue par les pays africains à cette période. Cette dernière favorisera la mise en place de radios communautaires, dites de proximité, ... more
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La loi et les medias en Republique du Niger

Abdourahamane Gayakoye Sabi
Legon (GH): Fondation pour les Médias en Afrique de l’Ouest (2009), 15 pp.
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Aesthetic Formations: Media, Religion, and the Senses

Birgit Meyer (ed.)
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2009), xiv, 278 pp.
"This book examines the incorporation of newly accessible mass media into practices of religious mediation in a variety of settings including the Pentecostal Church and Islamic movements, as well as the use of religious forms and image in the sphere of radio and cinema." (Publisher description)
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Fundamentalisms and the Media

Stewart M. Hoover, Nadia Kaneva (eds.)
London: Continuum (2009), xii, 223 pp.
"Outside the West, religion is an ever more prominent force in social and political movements of both reform and retrenchment. Across these contexts, no issue in religion is of as much concern as fundamentalism - or rather the fundamentalisms within various traditions - which are seen to be fomentin ... more
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Histoire de la télévision en Afrique noire francophone, des origines à nos jours

Tidiane Dioh
Paris: Karthala (2009), 238 pp.
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Mobile Phones: The New Talking Drums of Everyday Africa

Mirjam de Bruijn, Francis Nyamnjoh, Inge Brinkman (eds.)
Bamenda (CM); Leiden: Langaa; African Studies Centre (2009), vii, 173 pp.
"This book is about the many ways in which mobile phones are being appropriated by Africans and how they are transforming and are being transformed by society in Africa. A case study from Karthoum (Sudan) shows, how mobile phones are reshaping relationships in a Muslim society, where they enable wom ... more
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Communication for Development: A Glimpse at UNDP's Practice

Elizabeth McCall
Oslo: United Nations; UNDP Oslo Governance Centre (2009), 54 pp.
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Genocide: Truth, Memory, and Representation

Alexander Laban Hinton, Kevin Lewis O'Neill (eds.)
Durham: Duke University Press (2009), 349 pp.
"What happens to people and the societies in which they live after genocide? How are the devastating events remembered on the individual and collective levels, and how do these memories intersect and diverge as the rulers of postgenocidal states attempt to produce a monolithic "truth" about the past ... more
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Radio, Newspaper and More: Media Tools for Peace. Experiences from the Field, 2002-2008

Martin Zint
Neuwied: Eirene (2009), 51 pp.
"This publication provides examples of the way in which media can be used for the non-violent management of regional conflicts. Practitioners from radio initiatives in Chad, Niger, Mali and the Democratic Republic of Congo report their experiences regarding the function and perception of the media i ... more