From massacres to genocide : the media, public policy, and humanitarian crises / Robert I. Rotberg, Thomas G. Weiss, editors.
1996
HV553 .F76 1996
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Title
From massacres to genocide : the media, public policy, and humanitarian crises / Robert I. Rotberg, Thomas G. Weiss, editors.
ISBN
0815775903 (alk. paper)
9780815775904 (alk. paper)
081577589X (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780815775898 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780815775904 (alk. paper)
081577589X (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780815775898 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Imprint
Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution, ©1996.
Language
English
Description
x, 203 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number
HV553 .F76 1996
System Control No.
(OCoLC)33818317
Summary
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.
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Communications, policy-making, and humanitarian crises / Fred H. Cate
Reporting humanitarianism : are the new electronic media making a difference? / Edward R. Girardet
Suffering in silence : media coverage of war and famine in the Sudan / Steven Livingston
Big problems, small print : a guide to the complexity of humanitarian emergencies and the media / Peter Shiras
Emergency response as morality play : the media, the relief agencies, and the need for capacity building / John Hammock and Joel R. Charny
The media and the refugee / Lionel Rosenblatt
Illusions of influence : the CNN effect in complex emergencies / Andrew Natsios
Human rights and humanitarian crises : policy-making and the media / John Shattuck
Coping with the new world disorder : the media, humanitarians, and policymakers / Robert Rotberg and Thomas G. Weiss.
Reporting humanitarianism : are the new electronic media making a difference? / Edward R. Girardet
Suffering in silence : media coverage of war and famine in the Sudan / Steven Livingston
Big problems, small print : a guide to the complexity of humanitarian emergencies and the media / Peter Shiras
Emergency response as morality play : the media, the relief agencies, and the need for capacity building / John Hammock and Joel R. Charny
The media and the refugee / Lionel Rosenblatt
Illusions of influence : the CNN effect in complex emergencies / Andrew Natsios
Human rights and humanitarian crises : policy-making and the media / John Shattuck
Coping with the new world disorder : the media, humanitarians, and policymakers / Robert Rotberg and Thomas G. Weiss.
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Larry Minear Humanitarian Resources Collection.