Africa's Deadliest Conflict : Media Coverage of the Humanitarian Disaster in the Congo and the United Nations Response, 1997-2008 /

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This book deals with the complex intersection of the legacy of post-colonial history - a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions - and changing norms of international intervention associated with the idea of human security and the responsibility to protect (R2P). It attempts to explain why, despite...

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Main Authors: Soderlund, Walter C. (Author), Roberts, Blake C., 1962- (Author), Najem, Tom (Author), Briggs, E. Donald (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2012
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
United Nations.
United Nations > Congo (Democratic Republic) > Kinshasa.
War in mass media.
Press > Influence.
Humanitarian assistance.
HISTORY > Africa > Central.
Aide humanitaire > Congo (Republique democratique) > Kinshasa.
Nations Unies > Congo (Republique democratique) > Kinshasa.
Aide humantaire > Congo (Republique democratique) > Kinshasa.
Presse > Influence.
Guerre dans les medias.
Humanitarian assistance > Congo (Democratic Republic) > Kinshasa.
Congo (Democratic Republic) > Kinshasa.
Congo (Democratic Republic)
Congo (Republique democratique) > Histoire > 1997-
Congo (Democratic Republic) > History > 1997-
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The Congo : understanding the conflict
  • The UN response : from ONUC to MONUSCO
  • Mass media, public awareness, and television news coverage of the Congo
  • New York Times framing of the Second Congo War
  • New York Times framing of the Third Congo War
  • Media coverage of the Congo wars : an overall assessment
  • Peacekeeping in the age of R2P
  • Conclusion : the impact of mass media on "the will to intervene"
  • Postscript : an update on events.

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