Post-conflict media freedom

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Definition/Description

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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

Bajraktari, Y., & Hsu, E., Developing Media in Stabilization and Reconstruction Operations, Stabilization and Reconstruction Series, United States Institute of Peace (2007)

This report identifies important tasks that interveners should consider in fashioning a strategy for independent, pluralistic, and sustainable media. Drawing on best practices from past and present postwar media development efforts, the report presents a strategy that encompasses the three phases of an intervention: predeployment, deployment, and exit.

http://www.usip.org/files/resources/srs7.pdf

Kumar, Krishna, Promoting Independent Media in Russia. An Assessment of USAIDS’s Media Assistance, PPC Evaluation Working Paper no 7 August 2003

This report presents the findings of a three-person team that conducted an assessment of USAID media assistance programs in Russia. During its fieldwork in October–November 2002, the team conducted indepth discussions with the staff of USAID and its partners, journalists, managers of independent media outlets, and the leaders of civil society organizations. The team also undertook a comprehensive examination of project and program documents and academic literature on the Russian media scene.

http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNACR757.pdf

Resources

Related web portals:

Training resources:

Discussion forums and specialised platforms:

Organisations and institutions engaged in this area:

  • United States Institute of Peace [1]

For further study:

  • Windrich, E., The mass media in the struggle for Zimbabwe : censorship and propaganda under Rhodesian Front rule, Mambo Press (1981), Gwelo, Zimbabwe

Author(s)

Lists the ones who wrote main parts of the articles

Contributions

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