| Description |
x, 203 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Robert I. Rotberg and Thomas G. Weiss -- 1. Communications, Policy-Making, and Humanitarian Crises / Fred H. Cate -- 2. Reporting Humanitarianism: Are the New Electronic Media Making a Difference? / Edward R. Girardet -- 3. Suffering in Silence: Media Coverage of War and Famine in the Sudan / Steven Livingston -- 4. Big Problems, Small Print: A Guide to the Complexity of Humanitarian Emergencies and the Media / Peter Shiras -- 5. Emergency Response as Morality Play: The Media, the Relief Agencies, and the Need for Capacity Building / John C. Hammock and Joel R. Charny -- 6. The Media and the Refugee / Lionel Rosenblatt -- 7. Illusions of Influence: The CNN Effect in Complex Emergencies / Andrew Natsios -- 8. Human Rights and Humanitarian Crises: Policy-Making and the Media / John Shattuck -- 9. Coping with the New World Disorder: The Media, Humanitarians, and Policy-Makers / Robert I. Rotberg and Thomas G. Weiss |
| Summary |
Human suffering on a large scale is a continuing threat to world peace. Several dozen gruesome civil wars disturb global order and jar our collective conscience each year. The 50 million people displaced by current complex humanitarian emergencies overwhelm the ability of the post-Cold War world to understand and cope with genocide, ethnic cleansing, massacres, and other inhumane acts. Greater public awareness of how much is at stake and how much more costly it is to act later rather than sooner can be a critical element in stemming the proliferation of these tragedies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Disaster relief -- Public relations.
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Disaster relief.
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Disasters -- Press coverage.
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Human rights.
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International relief.
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Mass media.
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| Author |
Rotberg, Robert I.
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Weiss, Thomas G. (Thomas George), 1946-
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| LC no. |
95050159 |
| ISBN |
081577589X (paperback: alk. paper) |
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0815775903 (alk. paper) |
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