Digital media, conflict and peacebuildingPrecarity, technology, identity: the sociology of conflict reporting in South Sudan Richard Stupart Introduction I’d say there are two factors now. One is safety, and the other is money. Because news outlets are less and less happy about supplying either of those things. And they usually come...
(Media, Conflict and Peacebuilding in Africa: Conceptual and Empirical Considerations)Laws of armed conflicts, counterterrorism and counterinsurgency: Emerging conceptual and empirical contours in the battle spaceChukwuma CC Osakwe Change and continuity have been known to characterise the nature of warfare even before the adoption of the First Geneva Convention in 1864. The changing nature of war has attracted a host of superlative adjectives such as (ir)regular warfare, (un) conventional warfare, (uncivilised...
(The Routledge Handbook of Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency in Africa)Migration, Trade, and Development in Africa: Conceptual and Empirical LinksMichaella Vanore As in many other world regions, Africa is facing multiple transitions, three of which are deeply interconnected: those related to mobility, demography, and economic growth. Changing fertility patterns and residential mobility have already begun to shift the age structures of...
(Migration, Remittances, and Sustainable Development in Africa)The good and bad of traditional media in conflict and peacebuildingA critical reflection on the role of the media in conflict in Africa Dumisani Moyo Introduction While conflict has always been a feature of the human existence, today’s world is distinctly characterized by a multiplicity of complex and intensified conflicts of various nature. This perception...
(Media, Conflict and Peacebuilding in Africa: Conceptual and Empirical Considerations)The role of the media in conflict and peacebuilding in Sierra LeoneFrancis Sowa Introduction and background of the study The world today is characterized by widespread and diverse conflicts (Cottle 2006, 1). It is largely defined by conflict. There have been many conflicts after the end of the Cold War in which there occurred many deaths. Over 90% of all armed conflicts...
(Media, Conflict and Peacebuilding in Africa: Conceptual and Empirical Considerations)Peace-makers or Peace-wreckers? Discursive construction of domestic conflict and peacebuilding in the Zimbabwean diaspora mediaTendai Chari Introduction For more than two decades, Zimbabwe has been engaged in a low intensity civil war compounded by multi-layered socio-economic and political crises that pushed about three million citizens into the diaspora (Miriyoga 2017; Tsarwe and Mare 2019). The bourgeoning diaspora population...
(Media, Conflict and Peacebuilding in Africa: Conceptual and Empirical Considerations)The state and civil society in Africa: conceptual and theoretical frameworkThe concept ot civil society has varying interpretations, and as such, it is not easy to discuss its evolution without clearly defining the idea behind its origin. A clear definition of civil society' will help tremendously in discussing its development. In discussing the transition, the nature and substance...
(The Routledge Handbook of Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency in Africa)The prospects and challenges of mediating peacebuilding in Africa: towards a human rights journalism approachIbrahim Seaga Shaw Introduction For reasons that will soon become clear, I would like to start this chapter by referring to an interview on CNN by Christianne Amanpour with former Nigerian President GoodluckJonathan while the latter was attending the World Economic Forum Summit in Davos Switzerland in...
(Media, Conflict and Peacebuilding in Africa: Conceptual and Empirical Considerations)Sexual orientation and gender identity or expression (SOGIE) in violent conflict and peacebuildingJamie J. Hagen, Megan Daigle, and Henri Myrttinen An important next step in feminist peace research is recognising the unique experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) persons living in conflict-affected environments, as well as others subjected to heterosexist and...
(Routledge Handbook of Feminist Peace Research)Conflict and peacebuildingDiasporas are widely recognized as wielders of power in distant homelands. This chapter is concerned with such conununities as they relate to “domestic” aimed conflicts, which today far outstrip interstate ones and often have destabilizing consequences beyond the borders of contested states. The...
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