African Media and Conflict

By Abiodun Onadipe and David Lord

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Part One: The Media and Society
The Roots of African Conflicts
A Continent in Crisis
Characteristics of Violent Conflict
African Responses to Conflict
Conflict Resolution
The Media as 'Conflict Resolvers'

Part Two: Constraints on the Media in Africa
Constraints
Economics
Management
Technology
Politics
Media in Conflict
Choices for Journalists
The Media Under Fire
Gender Issues in Conflict

Part Three: Strengthening African Media in Conflict
Training
Training Outputs
Improved Conflict Analysis
Technological Development
Institutional Development: Exchanges
Monitoring and Evaluation
Research Options
Looking Forward

Part Four: In Their Own Words

African media and conflict resolution by Pap Saine

Conflict in Sierra Leone and its effects on the media by Umaru Fofana

African conflicts and the media by Elizabeth Hoff

A harvest of treason trials by Goodson Machona

Journalist in Exile by Bunmi Aborisade

Conflicts in Africa: Causes, consequences and solutions by Sébastien Dossa

The New Private Media in the Upheavals for Democracy by Gabriel Ayite Baglo

A Sojourn in Hell by Mike Butscher

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