Our Recommendations
- Meeting the challenges of information disorder in the Global South (2022)
- Comunicar derechos en el posconflicto: caja de herramientas y estrategias (2019)
- Amazonia – el desafío de comunicar la diversidad. Los casos de Colombia, Ecuador y Perú (2020)
- Media and mass atrocity: the Rwanda genocide and beyond (2019)
- Video as evidence: field guide (2016)
New Publications
- Media and conflict: an assessment of the evidence (2014)
- Promoting independent media in El Salvador (2006)
- Crafting the Arab media for peace-building: donors, dialogue and disasters (2007)
- The other air force: U.S. efforts to reshape Middle Eastern media since 9/11 (2016)
- Media in Sudan at a crossroads: assessment and outline of a strategy for media support (2007)
Filter
120
Featured
New Publications
2
Free access
0
Inspiring practice
0
Key Guidance
0
Quick overview
0
Top Insights
0
Language
Document type
Guides, Toolkits, Manuals
15
Discussion & Policy Papers, Recommendations
6
Experiences & Case Studies
4
Country Reports
3
Textbooks
2
Evaluation Reports
2
Testimonies & Oral Histories
1
Illustrated Books, Photo Books, Comics
1
Countries / Regions
Colombia
14
USA
11
Germany
9
Rwanda
8
Afghanistan
8
Zimbabwe
8
Kenya
7
Africa
7
South Africa
7
International Scope
6
Europe
6
Russia
6
Ukraine
4
Israel
4
Middle East
4
Palestine
4
Central African Republic
4
Ecuador
4
Serbia
3
China
3
Syria
3
Cambodia
3
United Kingdom
3
Lebanon
3
Uganda
3
Brazil
3
South Sudan
3
Iraq
3
India
3
Pakistan
3
Mexico
2
El Salvador
2
Turkey
2
Australia
2
Cameroon
2
Nigeria
2
Peru
2
Austria
2
Philippines
2
Italy
2
Armenia
2
Latin America
2
France
2
Spain
2
Algeria
2
Asia
2
Kosovo
2
Argentina
2
Poland
2
Indonesia
2
Tajikistan
1
Nepal
1
Ghana
1
Sierra Leone
1
Gambia
1
Kazakhstan
1
Chile
1
Canada
1
Fiji
1
Kyrgyzstan
1
Congo-Brazzaville
1
Burkina Faso
1
Uzbekistan
1
Burundi
1
Bulgaria
1
Mozambique
1
Haiti
1
Hungary
1
Oceania & Pacific Islands
1
Gabon
1
Turkmenistan
1
Japan
1
Norway
1
Bosnia and Herzegovina
1
Caribbean
1
Grenada
1
Equatorial Guinea
1
East Africa
1
Abkhazia
1
Southeast Europe
1
Chechnya
1
Panama
1
South America
1
Amazonia
1
Arab World
1
Vietnam
1
Papua New Guinea
1
Nicaragua
1
Sri Lanka
1
Egypt
1
Sudan
1
Romania
1
Georgia
1
Ethiopia
1
Chad
1
Somalia
1
Myanmar / Burma
1
Cuba
1
Guatemala
1
Authors & Publishers
Media focus
Publication Years
Toolboxes
Special collections
Civil Society Organisations & Journalism Safety
1
Methods applied
Output Type
Racism, ethnicity and the media in Africa: mediating conflict in the twenty-first century
London:
Tauris
(2015), xviii,347 pp., index
ISBN 978-1-78076-706-2 (hbk); 978-1-86064-194-7 (pbk); 978-0-75561-903-0 (online)
"In today's Africa racism and ethnicity have been implicated in serious conflicts - from Egypt to Mali to South Africa - that have cost lives and undermined efforts to achieve national cohesion and meaningful development. Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa sets about rethinking the role of me...
Reporting in criminal proceedings: guidance for journalists
Attorney General's Office
(2014), 6 pp.
"Open justice is a core principle in law, and the fair and accurate reporting of legal proceedings protects and promotes this principle. However, there are circumstances in which the reporting of proceedings or specific information must be restricted in order to protect the integrity of proceedings ...
Looking at the Tuol Sleng Museum of genocidal crimes, Cambodia, on Flickr and YouTube
Media, culture & society, volume 36, issue 6 (2014), pp. 790-809
"'During the Khmer Rouge regime (1975-9) the Tuol Svay Prey high school in Phnom Penh was used under the codename S21 as a torture-and-execution centre. In 1979, the government of the newly established People's Republic of Kampuchea had it refurbished as memorial. Today, people from all over the wor...
Journalism and dealing with the past: a manual for journalists in Kosovo
Prishtina (KO):
Forum Ziviler Friedensdienst (forumZFD)
(2014), 30 pp.
"This manual is the result of Frequencies of the Past, a conflict sensitive journalism project by forumZFD. From 2011 to 2013, journalists from different media, ethnic backgrounds and from various regions of Kosovo have joined the project to explore the opportunities to cover sensitive issues relate...
Media and conflict: an assessment of the evidence
Progress in development studies, volume 14, issue 2 (2014), pp. 181-195
"This article assesses the evidence used to in arguments for the role of the media in conflict and post-conflict situations. It focuses on two broad areas within the literature. First, it examines literature on the contribution of media in war to peace transitions, including assessment of evidence u...
Glossary of hate speech in the media of Armenia and Azerbaijan
Baku; Yerevan:
Yerevan Press Club; “Yeni Nesil” Journalists’ Union of Azerbaijan; Eurasia Partnership Foundation (EPF); Foreign & Commonwealth Office
(2013), 96 pp.
"The present analytical list of the most common clichés, stereotypes and examples of inaccurate (or reasonably questioned) information in the media of Armenia and Azerbaijan is based on the findings of a number of joint studies, administered by Yerevan Press Club and “Yeni Nesil” Journalists’...
Towards a diagnostic approach to media in fragile states: examples from the Somali territories
Media, war & conflict, volume 6, issue 3 (2013), pp. 279-293
"Media interventions by international organizations and NGOs in conflict and post-conflict situations seek to develop and shape a media system to contribute to specific political and social ends. The analyses and assessments that inform these interventions are often based on an overview of the forma...
Narrating conflict in the Middle East: discourse, image and communication practices in Lebanon and Palestine
London; New York:
Tauris
(2013), x, 276 pp.
"The starting point of this innovative book is that it is unsatisfactory either to consider conflict within a singular concept or alternatively to consider each conflict as entirely distinct and unique; Narrating Conflict in the Middle East explores another path to addressing long-term conflict. The...
Die Unentbehrlichen: zur konstruktiven Rolle von Medien und Journalisten im Peacebuilding
Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, volume 1, issue 1 (2012), pp. 106-140
"Die Rolle von Medien und media assistance im praktischen peacebuilding kritisch untersuchend, erläutert der vorliegende Artikel Aspekte für eine erfolgreiche und konstruktive Konflikttransformation. Anhand von Erfahrungen aus Kolumbien werden allerdings auch jene gesellschaftspolitischen Determin...
Responses to peace journalism
Journalism, volume 14, issue 8 (2012), pp. 1041-1058
"This article presents and discusses the results of an experiment, which gathered audience responses to television news coded as war journalism and peace journalism respectively, in two countries, Australia and the Philippines. From the peace journalism model, evaluative criteria were first derived ...
The content and context of hate speech: rethinking regulation and responses
Cambridge; New York:
Cambridge University Press
(2012), xxiv, 544 pp., illustr., index
"The contributors to this volume consider whether it is possible to establish carefully tailored hate speech policies that are cognizant of the varying traditions, histories, and values of different countries. Throughout, there is a strong comparative emphasis, with examples (and authors) drawn from...
Public memory, public media, and the politics of justice
Houndmills, Basingstoke; New York:
Palgrave Macmillan
(2012), xvii, 220 pp., index
ISBN 9780230354067 (hbk); 978-1-349-34616-5; 978-1-137-26517-3 (ebook)
"This book aims to provide a context in which a clear link can be traced between the politics of memory and its manifold representations and misrepresentations in public media towards a viable politics of justice. The assumption is that public awareness and perceptions of injustice, whether they are...
Picturing Afghanistan: the photography of foreign conflict
New York:
Hampton Press
(2012), xiii, 199 pp., illustr., bibliogr. p.161-183, index
ISBN 978-1-61289-039-5
"Picturing Afghanistan is an in-depth account of the Euro-American visualization of the conflict in Afghanistan. Comparing images in public affairs, psychological warfare, journalism and the photobook, the author argues that there are no strong boundaries between photography in war and photography a...
Picturing atrocity: photography in crisis
London:
Reaktion Books
(2012), 319 pp., many illustr.
ISBN 978-1-86189-872-2 (pbk)
"From the massacre of the Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee to the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, from famine in China to apartheid in South Africa, Picturing Atrocity examines a broad spectrum of photographs. Each of the essays focuses specifically on an iconic image, offering a distinct approach ...
The performance of vernacular radio stations in Kenya: monitoring report
Nairobi:
Media Council of Kenya; Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
(2012), viii, 33 pp., 15 figures, 17 tables
"The Media Council of Kenya (MCK), the statutory body established under the Media Act 2007 that regulates media and advances professionalism of the media in Kenya, monitored a set of ten vernacular radio stations in September/October 2011 in order to assess their current performance. The study looke...
Channels of resistance in Lebanon: liberation propaganda, Hezbollah and the media
London; New York:
Tauris
(2011), 279 pp., bibliogr. p.241-259, index
"The South Lebanon conflict saw two decades of sustained resistance by the Lebanese to the Israeli occupation. The Lebanese media’s role in achieving liberation over this period is significant, through campaigns conducted to unify the Lebanese people against their foreign occupier and in support o...
The war in Afghanistan and peace journalism in practice
Media, war & conflict, volume 3, issue 3 (2010), pp. 261-278
"This article argues that Johan Galtung’s theory on peace journalism can serve as a fruitful supplement to theory-building in the field of war and peace journalism, and critically reviews the scholarly debate on peace journalism. By using examples from Norwegian media coverage of the war in Afghan...
Shadows of war: a social history of silence in the twentieth century
Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press
(2010), ix, 223 pp., index
ISBN 978-0-511-67701-4 (ebook); 978-0-521-19658-1 (hbk)
"Silence lies between forgetting and remembering. This book explores the ways in which different societies have constructed silences to enable men and women to survive and make sense of the catastrophic consequences of armed conflict. Using a range of disciplinary approaches, it examines the silence...
Topic guide on conflict
Birmingham:
University of Birmingham Governance and Social Development Resource Centre (GSDRC)
(2009), 156 pp.
"Violent conflict is the subject of this topic guide. The guide provides an overview of key topics ranging from the causes, dynamics and impacts of conflict to options for interventions to prevent, manage and respond to conflict ... The guide highlights key issues and debates for each topic covered ...
Alarming reports: communicating conflict in the daily news
New York; Oxford:
Berghahn
(2009), vii, 208 pp., bibliogr. p.191-202, index
ISBN 978-1-845455798
"News stories provide an essential confirmation of our ideas about who we are, what we have to fear, and what to do about it: a marketplace of ideas, shopped by rational citizen decision makers but also a shared resource for grounding our contested narratives of identity in objective reality. News a...
