Media diplomacy
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Definition/Description
Media are playing an important role in diplomatic efforts to resolve conflict or bring parties to the negotiating table.
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Methods/Methodologies/Tools to use
Gives short introduction (one/two sentences) into different methodologies/methods/tools (used for, limitations etc.) – and links to a more comprehensive description
Practitioners’ tips
recommendations of which methods proved to be efficient, too time-consuming, experiences from different cultural settings etc.
Examples
Gilboa, E., Media-Broker Diplomacy: When Journalists Become Mediators, Critical Studies in Media Communication (2005), Vol.22, No.2, pp. 99-120
This work suggests a conceptual model to study journalists' involvement in international conflict resolution. The model, "Media-Broker Diplomacy," represents an attempt to build an analytical tool that integrates and applies theories and models from both negotiations and communication.
http://www.allacademic.com//meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/1/1/2/6/1/pages112611/p112611-1.php
Gilboa, E., Mass communication and diplomacy: A theoretical framework, Communication Theory (2000), Vol.10, p.275.
This study offers 6 conceptual models that serve in defining and analyzing the role of the media in contemporary diplomacy. Divided into 2 groups, the first 3 models -- secret diplomacy, closed-door diplomacy and open diplomacy -- deal with limitations officials impose on media cover- age and the degree to which negotiations are exposed to the media and public opinion. The models in the second group -- public diplomacy, media diplomacy, and media-broker diplomacy -- deal with extensive utilization of the media by officials and sometimes by journalists to promote negotiations. The closed-door and the media-broker models are comprehensively presented here for the first time. The other 4 models, although previously defined, have undergone serious revision in this study. This article demonstrates the analytical usefulness of the models through applications to various examples and case studies of significant contemporary diplomatic processes.
http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=96400719
Gilboa, E., The Theory and Practice of Media-Broker Diplomacy, Bar-Ilan University (2005), Ramat-Gan
This analysis of the involvement of journalists in international conflict resolution presents a conceptual model that integrates and applies theories and models from both negotiation and communication. Each variant of the model -- direct intervention, bridging, and secret mediation -- has contributed to conflict resolution in a different way. The model also includes three parameters: action, initiation, and consequences. Findings from eight case studies raise difficult professional, practical, and ethical questions for negotiators, policymakers, and journalists.
http://www.allacademic.com//meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/0/7/0/2/5/pages70251/p70251-1.php
Mthembu-Salter, G., Mediation and Genocide in Rwanda -and- Burundi's Peace agreement without peace Track Two (2002), Vol.11, No.5&6
This study, which is primarily based on interviews with the mediators and the negotiating parties,2 assesses the mediation process, demonstrating that it was based on confidence-building principles, with the crucial proviso that the parties' ownership of the final agreement was incomplete. The study examines why the mediation failed, and whether this failure can be ascribed to deficiencies in the confidence-building approach.
http://www.ccr.uct.ac.za/archive/two/11_56/index.html
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For further study:
- Anti-war journalist becomes mediator, International Herald Tribune, Associated Press (2002)
- Geyer, G. A., Journalists: The new targets, the new diplomats, the new intermediary people, In R. Schmuhl (Ed.), The responsibilities of journalism Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame Press (1984)
- Gilboa, E., Media diplomacy in the Arab-Israeli conflict, In E. Gilboa (Ed.), Media and conflict: Framing issues, making policy, shaping opinions, pp. 193-211, Transnational Publishes (2002), Ardsley, NY
- Gilboa, E., Media diplomacy: conceptual divergence and applications, Communication Abstracts (1999), Vlo.22. No.2
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