Forging Peace: Intervention, Human Rights and the Management of Media Space - Softcover

Price, Monroe E.; Thomspon, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0253215730 ISBN 13: 9780253215734

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2002

Synopsis

The bloody conflicts of the past decade have focused international attention on the strategic role of the media in promoting war and perpetuating chaos. Written against this backdrop, Forging Peace brings together case studies and legal analysis of the steps that the United Nations, NATO, and other organizations have taken to build pluralist and independent media in the wake of massive human rights violations. It examines current thinking on the legality of unilateral humanitarian intervention, and analyzes in graphic detail the pioneering use of information intervention techniques in conflict zones, ranging from full-scale bombardment and confiscation of transmitters to the establishment of new laws and regulatory regimes. With its focus on the role of media in preventing human rights violations, Forging Peace will influence policy and debate for years to come.

About this title

About the Author:

Monroe E. Price is the founder and co-director of the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at the University of Oxford. He is also the Joseph and Sadie Danciger Professor of Law at Yeshiva University. He is author and editor of numerous books, including Television, the Public Sphere and National Identity.

Mark Thompson is a freelance writer and consultant. He is author of A Paper House: The Ending of Yugoslavia and Forging War: The Media in Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina--chosen as "Book of the Year" in The Guardian and The Observer.

Review:

A sound starting point and excellent reference from which to begin asking difficult questions. -- Nicole Stremlau, London School of Economics A sound starting point and excellent reference from which to begin asking difficult questions.

About this edition

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0253215730
• ISBN 13: 9780253215734
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416