Reporting Genocide

Author : David Patrick
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786732934

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Reporting Genocide by David Patrick Pdf

The Western world's responses to genocide have been slow, unwieldly and sometimes unfit for purpose. So argues David Patrick in this essential new contribution to the aid and intervention debate. While the UK and US have historically been committed to the ideals of human rights, freedom and equality, their actual material reactions are more usually dictated by geopolitical 'noise', pre-conceived ideas of worth and the media attention-spans of individual elected leaders. Utilizing a wide-ranging quantitative analysis of media reporting across the globe, Patrick argues that an over-reliance on the Holocaust as the framing device we use to try and come to terms with such horrors can lead to slow responses, misinterpretation and category errors - in both Rwanda and Bosnia, much energy was expended trying to ascertain whether these regions qualified for 'genocide' status. The Reporting of Genocide demonstrates how such tragedies are reduced to stereotypes in the media - framed in terms of innocent victims and brutal oppressors - which can over-simplify the situation on the ground. This in turn can lead to mixed and inadequate responses from governments. Reporting on Genocide also seeks to address how responses to genocides across the globe can be improved, and will be essential reading for policy-makers and for scholars of genocide and the media.

Author : Allan Thompson
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780745326252

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The Media and the Rwanda Genocide by Allan Thompson Pdf

Explores the role of the media in the Rwandan genocide -- within the country and beyond.

Author : David Patrick (Historian)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1350987786

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Reporting Genocide by David Patrick (Historian) Pdf

The Western world's responses to genocide have been slow, unwieldly and sometimes unfit for purpose. While the UK and US have historically been committed to the ideals of human rights, freedom and equality, their reactions are usually dictated by geopolitical 'noise', pre-conceived ideas of worth and the media attention-spans of individual elected leaders. Utilising a wide-ranging quantitative analysis of media reporting across the globe, Patrick argues that an over-reliance on the Holocaust as the framing device we use to try and come to terms with such horrors can lead to slow responses, misinterpretation and category errors - in both Rwanda and Bosnia, much energy was expended trying to ascertain whether these regions qualified for 'genocide' status. Reporting Genocide demonstrates how such tragedies are reduced to stereotypes in the media, which can over-simplify the situation on the ground and can lead to inadequate responses from governments. Patrick seeks to address how responses to genocides can be improved. This will be essential reading for policy makers and for scholars of genocide and the media. Book jacket.

Author : David Patrick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1027213044

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The Reporting of Genocide: Media, Mass Violence and Human Rights by David Patrick Pdf

Author : Allan Thompson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781928096740

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Media and Mass Atrocity by Allan Thompson Pdf

When human beings are at their worst – as they most certainly were in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide – the world needs the institutions of journalism and the media to be at their best. Sadly, in Rwanda, the media fell short. Media and Mass Atrocity revisits the case of Rwanda, but also examines how the nexus between media and mass atrocity has been shaped by the dramatic rise of social media. It has been twenty-five years since Rwanda slid into the abyss. The killings happened in broad daylight, but many of us turned away. A quarter century later, there is still much to learn about the relationship between the media and genocide, an issue laid bare by the Rwanda tragedy. Media and Mass Atrocity revisits the debate over the role of traditional news media in Rwanda, where, confronted by the horrors taking place, international news media, for the most part, turned away, and at times muddled the story when they did pay attention. Hate-media outlets in Rwanda played a role in laying the groundwork for genocide, and then actively encouraged the extermination campaign. The news media not only failed to fully grasp and communicate the genocide, but mostly overlooked the war crimes committed during the genocide and in its aftermath by the Rwandan Patriotic Front. The global media landscape has been transformed since Rwanda. We are now saturated with social media, generated as often as not by non-journalists. Mobile phones are everywhere. And in many quarters, the traditional news media business model continues to recede. Against that backdrop, it is more important than ever to examine the nexus between media and mass atrocity. The book includes an extensive section on the echoes of Rwanda, which looks at the cases of Darfur, the Central African Republic, Myanmar, and South Sudan, while the impact of social media as a new actor is examined through chapters on social media use by the Islamic State and in Syria and in other contexts across the developing world. It also looks at the aftermath of the genocide: the shifting narrative of the genocide itself, the evolving debate over the role and impact of hate media in Rwanda, the challenge of digitizing archival records of the genocide, and the fostering of free and independent media in atrocity's wake. The volume also probes how journalists themselves confront mass atrocity and examines the preventive function of media through the use of advanced digital technology as well as radio programming in the Lake Chad Basin and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Media and Mass Atrocity questions what the lessons of Rwanda mean now, in an age of communications so dramatically influenced by social media and the relative decline of traditional news media.

Author : Leo Kuper
Publisher : Minority Rights Group Publications
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081500238

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International Action Against Genocide by Leo Kuper Pdf

"The report that follows has been commissioned, and is published, by the Minority Rights Group as a contribution to public understanding of the problem which forms its subject. It does not necessarily represent, in every detail and in all its aspects, the collective view of the Group."--Page ii of cover

Author : Canadian Centre for Foreign Policy Development,Roundtable on "Just War and Genocide" (2000 : Ottawa, Ont.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Genocide
ISBN : 0662300645

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Report from the Roundtable on "Just War and Genocide" [electronic Resource] by Canadian Centre for Foreign Policy Development,Roundtable on "Just War and Genocide" (2000 : Ottawa, Ont.) Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0896047164

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Fundamentals of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jennifer Trahan,Adela Mall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Crimes against humanity
ISBN : UCSD:31822033266552

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Genocide, War Crimes, and Crimes Against Humanity by Jennifer Trahan,Adela Mall Pdf

This unique book organizes the decisions of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia by topic, including genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, individual criminal responsibility, command responsibility, affirmative defenses, jurisdiction, sentencing, fair trial rights, guilty pleas and appellate review. In selected cases, the book also applies key aspects of the law to the facts of the case.

Author : Raphael Lemkin
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781584775768

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Axis Rule in Occupied Europe by Raphael Lemkin Pdf

"In this study Polish emigre Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959) coined the term 'genocide' and defined it as a subject of international law"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Robert I. Rotberg,Thomas G. Weiss
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002-04-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 081572361X

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From Massacres to Genocide by Robert I. Rotberg,Thomas G. Weiss Pdf

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 increasingly crucial role in publicizing humanitarian crises, and advances in technology have intensified the immediacy of their reports. Because the world is watching as events unfold, policymakers are under great pressure to respond rapidly. Close cooperation between international relief agencies and the media is thus essential to help prevent or contain the humanitarian emergencies that threaten to overwhelm the world's capacity to care and assist. The authors of this book--all prominent in the fields of disaster relief, journalism, government policymaking, and academia--show how influential well-informed and well-developed media attention has become in forming policies to resolve ethnic and religious conflict and humanitarian crises. The authors argue that the media and humanitarians can collaborate effectively to alter both the attitudes of the public and the actions of policymakers regarding ethnic conflict and humanitarian crises. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Fred H. Cate, Joel R. Charny, Edward R. Girardet, John C. Hammock, Steven Livingston, Andrew Natsios, Lionel Rosenblatt, John Shattuck, and Peter Shiras. A Brookings Institution and World Peace Foundation copublication

Author : Judi Rever
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780345812100

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In Praise of Blood by Judi Rever Pdf

A FINALIST FOR THE HILARY WESTON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE: A stunning work of investigative reporting by a Canadian journalist who has risked her own life to bring us a deeply disturbing history of the Rwandan genocide that takes the true measure of Rwandan head of state Paul Kagame. Through unparalleled interviews with RPF defectors, former soldiers and atrocity survivors, supported by documents leaked from a UN court, Judi Rever brings us the complete history of the Rwandan genocide. Considered by the international community to be the saviours who ended the Hutu slaughter of innocent Tutsis, Kagame and his rebel forces were also killing, in quiet and in the dark, as ruthlessly as the Hutu genocidaire were killing in daylight. The reason why the larger world community hasn't recognized this truth? Kagame and his top commanders effectively covered their tracks and, post-genocide, rallied world guilt and played the heroes in order to attract funds to rebuild Rwanda and to maintain and extend the Tutsi sphere of influence in the region. Judi Rever, who has followed the story since 1997, has marshalled irrefutable evidence to show that Kagame's own troops shot down the presidential plane on April 6, 1994--the act that put the match to the genocidal flame. And she proves, without a shadow of doubt, that as Kagame and his forces slowly advanced on the capital of Kigali, they were ethnically cleansing the country of Hutu men, women and children in order that returning Tutsi settlers, displaced since the early '60s, would have homes and land. This book is heartbreaking, chilling and necessary.

Author : National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Governmental investigations
ISBN : 0660292750

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Reclaiming Power and Place by National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
ISBN : MINN:31951D03668022B

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International Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations Pdf

Author : Jean Hatzfeld
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015061179670

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Into the Quick of Life by Jean Hatzfeld Pdf

In Rwanda in 1994, five out of six Tutsis (800,000) were hacked to death with machetes by their Hutu neighbours. In the villages of Nyamata and N'tarama, where, in the first two days of the genocide, over 10,000 Tutsis were massacred in the churches where they sought refuge, Jean Hatzfeld interviewed some of the survivors. Of all ages, coming from different walks of life, from orphan teenage farmers to the local social worker, fourteen survivors talk of the genocide, the death of family and friends in the church and in the marshes of Bugesera to which they fled. They also talk of their present life and try to explain and understand the reasons behind the extermination. These horrific accounts of life at the very edge contrast with Hatzfeld's own sensitive and vivid descriptions of Rwanda's villages and countryside in peacetime. Into the Quick of Life brings us, in the author's own words, 'as close to (the event) as we can ever get'. It is a unique insight into a genocide.