Media, Conflict and Peacebuilding in Africa: Conceptual and Empirical Considerations

ISBN-13: 9780367360283 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 280 str.

Jacinta Mwende Maweu; Admire Mare

Opis

This book explores the role and place of popular, traditional and digital media platforms in the mediatization, representation and performance of various conflicts and peacebuilding interventions in the African context.

Spis treści

Foreword by Cyril Obi  1. Introduction. Changing the tide: Re-examining the interplay of media, conflict and peacebuilding in Africa Jacinta Maweu and Admire Mare  Part I. Different Conceptual and Methodological Considerations  2. Rethinking peace journalism in light of Ubuntu Colin Chasi and Ylva Rodny-Gumede 3. Researching Africa Peace Journalism through Borderlands: A Theoretical and Methodological Exploration Fredrick Ogenga  4. The Limits of Peace Journalism in Restricted Societies: Reporting the Gukurahundi Genocide in Zimbabwe Phillip Santos 5. The Prospects and Challenges of mediating peacebuilding in Africa: Towards a human rights journalism approach Ibrahim Seaga Shaw  6. The Role of Folk Media in Peacebuilding: Folk Storytelling Tradition as a Site for Peaceful Negotiation for Gender Harmony in African Families Egara Kabaji  Part II. The Good and Bad of Traditional Media in Conflict and Peacebuilding  7. A Critical Reflection on the Role of the Media in Conflict in Africa Dumisani Moyo  8. Assessing the impact of terrorism and counter-terrorism laws on freedom of the media in Kenya Benjamin Muindi  9. Catalysts of conflict or Messengers of Peace? Promoting Interfaith Dialogue between Christians and Muslims in Kenya through the Media Jacinta Maweu  10. Media Diplomacy and the Kenya-Somalia Maritime Territorial Dispute Doreen Muyonga  11. "In their own words": Journalistic mediation of electoral conflict in polarized Zimbabwe Admire Mare and Stanley Tsarwe  12. The role of the media in conflict and peacebuilding in Sierra Leone Francis Sowa  13. War Reporting In Africa: The Case Of Sudan’s War In The Nuba Mountains Ogata Moganda Silvester  14. Peace-makers or Peace-Wreckers? Discursive Construction of Domestic Conflict and Peacebuilding in the Zimbabwean Diaspora Media Tendai Chari  Part III: Digital Media, Conflict and Peacebuilding  15. Precarity, Technology, Identity: The Sociology of Conflict Reporting in South Sudan Richard Stupart  16: "Walking through History" Together: Gukurahundi, Memory and the Role of Digital Media in Shaping "Post-conflict" Zimbabwe Mphathisi Ndlovu  17. "We have Degrees in Violence": a Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Online Constructions of Electoral Violence in Post-2000 Zimbabwe Allen Munoriyarwa  18. Of Beaches, Monkeys and Good Old Days: How Social Media Race-Talk is Dismantling the ‘Rainbow Nation’ Shepherd Mpofu