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Customary Law and Media Regulation in Conflict and Post-Conflict States
"In the process of drafting new media laws for states emerging from violent confl ict, or transitioning towards more democratic governments, the role of customary law is often overlooked. While “best practices” or international standards draw on widely accepted norms of international human right
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In Search of Evidence: Media and Governance in Fragile States
Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 4, issue 2 (2014), 11 pp.
"This article reflects on efforts to identify evidence about the role of media in fragile states. It explores and compares findings from two research projects and focuses on some of the lessons that have emerged from these exercises as well as on the relevance of the findings for media development.
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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
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Media, Participation and Constitution-Making in Ethiopia
Journal of African Law, volume 58, issue 2 (2014), pp. 231-249
"In the early 1990s, Ethiopia’s ruling party, the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), drafted one of Africa’s most ambitious constitutions, allowing for ethnic federalism, decentralization and democratic reforms. The constitution has been highly controversial and many of
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Somalia: Media Law in the Absence of a State
International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics, volume 8, issue 2-3 (2013), pp. 159-174
"Somalia is often described as ‘lawless’ or ‘the world’s most failed state’, a characterization that overlooks the way law and governance actually works in the absence of a capable central government. This article will explore the role of xeer law, or customary law, in regulating media, in
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Hostages of Peace: The Politics of Radio Liberalization in Somaliland
Journal of Eastern African Studies, volume 7, issue 2 (2013), pp. 239-257
"Somaliland has held several competitive and multiparty elections that have been cited by international election monitors as being ‘‘free and fair.’’ While political competition has been tolerated, or even encouraged by the governments in power, there has been a continued reluctance to allow
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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
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Mapping Digital Media: Digital Media, Conflict and Diasporas in the Horn of Africa
London: Open Society Media Program Open Society Foundations (2012), 23 pp.
"The Horn of Africa is one of the least connected regions in the world. Nevertheless, digital media play an important social and political role in Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia (including South-Central Somalia and the northern self-declared independent Republic of Somaliland). This paper shows how
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Partner, Prototype or Persuader? China’s Renewed Media Engagement with Ghana
Communication, Politics & Culture, volume 45 (2012), pp. 174-196
"This article provides an empirically grounded assessment of China’s increasing role in the African mediasphere. It examines the strategic importance of Chinese media assistance to Ghana along three dimensions: the potential appeal of the Chinese approach to information regulation for countries st
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Media and Transitional Justice: Toward a Systematic Approach
International Journal of Communication, volume 6 (2012), pp. 1077-1099
"This article addresses a major gap in the transitional justice literature by exploring the role of the media in transitional justice processes. We offer a framework for analyzing the information environment in which media intervention and transitional justice occurs. We suggest an approach that can
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The Press and the Political Restructuring of Ethiopia
Journal of Eastern African Studies, volume 5, issue 4 (2011), pp. 716-732
"Divisive debates on what constitutes the Ethiopian nation, how the state should be structured and how power should be devolved, have dominated Ethiopia’s private press since the ruling party, the Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), came to power. The press has served as both
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China in Africa: A New Approach to Media Development?
Oxford; London: Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP) University of Oxford; Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research (2010), 21 pp.
"In the past few years China has rapidly become an important player in the media sector in many African countries in at least three ways. First, its economic success and the impressive growth of media outlets and users within China have quietly promoted an example of how the media can be deployed wi
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"The problem of post-election violence seems to be ever-more present as complexities of nation-building and democratic development arise. This report deals with some relevant questions. It is based on the outcome of discussions at a December 2008 workshop organized in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia [...] Our
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"This report explores issues of media policy during post-election violence. We examine the case of Kenya, where 1,133 people were killed after the 2007 elections, to distill lessons for Somaliland’s upcoming elections. There are indications the elections in Somaliland will be highly contentious an
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Public Opinion Research in a Conflict Zone: Grassroots Diplomacy in Darfur
International Journal of Communication, volume 2 (2008), pp. 1085-1113
"This paper introduces a set of methods that have been used to capture attitudes and opinions in a conflict environment. Based on an ongoing project in Darfur, it details the two main streams of research: one developed to carry out interviews on the ground to allow people to frame key issues using t
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