From Massacres to Genocide The Media, Public Policy, and Humanitarian Crises
Human suffering on a large scale is a continuing threat to world peace. Several dozen gruesome civil wars disturb global order and jar our collective conscience each year. The 50 million people displaced by current complex humanitarian emergencies overwhelm the ability of the post-Cold War world to understand and cope with genocide, ethnic cleansing, massacres, and other inhumane acts. Greater public awareness of how much is at stake and how much more costly it is to act later rather than sooner can be a critical element in stemming the proliferation of these tragedies. The media play an incre
1 online resource (214 p.)
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Cover
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part One-Capitalizing on Technology and Sustaining Media Attention
1. Communications, Policy-Making, and Humanitarian Crises
2. Reporting Humanitarianism: Are the New Electronic Media Making a Difference?
3. Suffering in Silence: Media Coverage of War and Famine in the Sudan
Part Two-Building Greater Humanitarian Capacity
4. Big Problems, Small Print: A Guide to the Complexity of Humanitarian Emergencies and the Media
5. Emergency Response as Morality Play: The Media, the Relief Agencies, and the Need for Capacity Building 6. The Media and the Refugee
Part Three-Improving U.S. Policy
7. Illusions of Influence: The CNN Effect in Complex Emergencies
8. Human Rights and Humanitarian Crises: Policy-Making and the Media
Part Four-Conclusions
9. Coping with the New World Disorder: The Media, Humanitarians, and Policy-Makers
About the Authors
About the Sponsoring Institutions
Index
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