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Debates in Peace Journalism

Jake Lynch

Sydney: Sydney University Press (2008), xix, 256 pp.

"In Debates in Peace Journalism, Jake Lynch traces the major controversies in this emerging field - philosophical, pedagogical and professional - and links his own contributions to them with important new material. The book is intended for those wishing to immerse themselves in the main conceptual c ... more

South Pacific Islands Communication: Regional Perspectives, Local Issues
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Evangelia Papoutsaki, Usha Sundar Harris (eds.)

Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) (2008), xi, 288 pp.

"This book brings together significant scholarly contributions on communication issues by researchers working across the region. It aims to create better understanding of what affects the communication and information flow in smaller nations and how these impact on national development, governance a ... more

Télévision et Méditerranée: Généalogie d'un regard

Bernard Cousin, Maryline Crivello (eds.)

Paris: L'Harmattan (2008), 212 pp.

Preventive Journalism and Coverage of Risk Situations: A Media Professional's Guide to Avian Influenza

Brasilia: ANDI (2007), 51 pp.

"This publication is intended to serve as a guide to journalists in different media segments on preventive, risk, and crisis communication. Although the focus is on a potential future influenza pandemic in Latin America arising from avian flu, the pages that follow set forth concepts and tools to as ... more

Children's Rights and Journalism Practice: A Rights-Based Perspective

Dublin: UNICEF (2007), 161 pp.

"Welcome to this module on children‘s rights for journalists. The objective of the module is to provide you, the trainee journalist, with the concepts and the information that will help you to develop responsible news reporting skills that appreciate and respect children' ... more

Why and When to Use the Media for Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding

Vladimir Bratic, Lisa Schirch

Den Haag: European Centre for Conflict Prevention (ECCP);Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (2007), 30 pp.

"The media’s impact on the escalation of conflict is more widely recognized than the media’s impact on peacebuilding. Yet it is not uncommon to hear experts pronounce that the media’s impact on peacebuilding must be significant given its powerful impact on conflict. However, this simple relati ... more

Peace Journalism Applied: An Assessment of Media Coverage of the Conflict in Northern Uganda

Linda Nassanga Goretti

Conflict & Communication Online, volume 6, issue 2 (2007), 9 pp.

"The paper explores how peace journalism has been applied in Uganda basing on an assessment of findings from a survey on the media coverage of the conflict in northern Uganda. The paper analyses the findings from the print media coverage of 2 newspapers for 3 years that were used as sample. The anal ... ysis considered several quantitative and qualitative variables including: frequency, type of stories (news vs non-news), authors of stories (journalists vs non-journalists), placement/prominence of story, balance in the story, information sources, language and tone, focus, peace initiatives and use of photographs. The introduction gives an overview of the concept of conflict and why we continue to have conflicts in society. The paper posits that since all people in society cannot have the same definition of a situation all the time, especially regarding the distribution of power and resources, disagreements and conflicts arise, which in extreme cases escalate into armed conflicts or wars. The paper looks at the major causes of conflicts in Africa and gives a background to the conflict/war in Northern Uganda, where the fighting has been going on since 1986, when President Museveni took over power. A synopsis of the findings showed that most of the coverage on the war was done by journalists in the form of news stories, with a few feature articles. This implies that journalists are largely responsible for what people get to learn about the war. Depending on the way journalists report about the conflict, people's perceptions will be influenced accordingly. The analysis showed that the government paper was largely biased towards government and confrontational in its reports, while the private paper used a more conciliatory tone and was more balanced by using various sources for their stories. There was fair coverage of peace initiatives, although this focused most on government efforts. An evaluation of the coverage showed that this had its strengths and weaknesses. While the media had helped in raising awareness about the war, there was self-censorship amongst the journalists, partly due to the Anti-terrorism Act, which makes it a capital offence if a journalist gives information that can aid terrorism. The paper looks at some obstacles that prevent journalists from giving objective reports when reporting on conflicts/wars. The paper concludes with some recommendations on how peace journalism can be consciously applied to contribute more meaningfully to the peace building process in Northern Uganda." (Abstract) more

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Wie im echten Leben: Von Bildern und Lügen in Zeiten des Krieges

Joris Luyendijk

Berlin: Tropen Verlag (2007), 255 pp.

We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People

Dan Gillmor

Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly (2006), xviii, 299 pp.

"Now that it's possible to publish in real time to a worldwide audience, a new breed of grassroots journalists are taking the news into their own hands. Armed with laptops, cell phones, and digita ... more

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Journalists under Fire: The Psychological Hazards of Covering War

Anthony Feinstein

Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press (2006), xiv, 195 pp.

"As journalists in Iraq and other hot spots around the world continue to face harrowing dangers and personal threats, neuropsychiatrist Anthony Feinstein offers a timely and important exploration into the psychological damage of those who, armed on ... more

Media in Situations of Conflict: Roles, Challenges and Responsibility

Adolf E. Mbaine (ed.)

Kampala: Fountain (2006), xi, 155 pp.

Bosnia's Open Broadcast Network: A Brief But Illustrative Foray Into Peace Journalism

Vladimir Bratic, Susan Dente Ross, Hyeonjin Kang-Graham

Global Media Journal - American Edition, volume 7, issue 13 (2006), [30 pp.]

"This study engages in the examination of the role of journalism in a time of violent conflict and explores the discourse that has come to be known under the umbrella term “peace journalism.” Through a case study of the Open Broadcast Network (OBN) coverage of the Bosnian conflict, the study ana ... more

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Conflict, Terrorism and the Media in Asia

Benjamin Cole (ed.)

London: Routledge (2006), ix, 149 pp.

"There are many different kinds of sub-national conflicts across Asia, with a variety of causes, but since September 11, 2001 these have been increasingly portrayed as part of the global terrorist threat, to be dealt with by the War on Terror. This major new study examines a wide range of such confl ... more

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Peace Journalism
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Jake Lynch, Annabel Mc Goldrick

Stroud, Gloucestershire: Hawthorn Press (2005), xxiii, 265 pp.

The Al Jazeera Phenomenon: Critical Perspectives on New Arab Media

Mohamed Zayani (ed.)

London: Pluto Press (2005), 233 pp.

Child Protection: A Handbook for Parliamentarians

Dan O'Donnell

Dan Seymour (contrib.)

Geneva; New York: Inter-Parliamentary Union;Office of the Permanent Observer of the IPU to the UN;UNICEF (2004), 162 pp.

"The fulfilment of children’s rights, including those to protection, depends on a global movement in which everybody not only understands and respects their duties to children, but also acts upon them. Parliaments and their members can and should be among the foremost champions of child protection ... more

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Intifada Hits the Headlines: How the Israeli Press Misreported the Outbreak of the Second Palestinian Uprising

Daniel Dor

Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2004), viii, 184 pp.

"In this nuanced and detailed study of newspaper reporting during the escalation of the second Intifada in the fall of 2000, Daniel Dor shows how real events are subject to distortion and manipulation by the media. In an analysis of the heart of Israel's ... more

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Media, War and Terrorism: Responses from the Middle East and Asia

Peter Van der Veer, Shoma Munshi (eds.)

London: Routledge (2004), xii, 260 pp.

"This collection of essays covers the media and public debate dimension of the events of 9/11 and beyond, from the point of view of Middle Eastern and Asian countries. The first part of the book deals with the use of the media as an instrument of warfare, the growing significance of religion, the em ... more