Twittering the Boko Haram Uprising in Nigeria: Investigating Pragmatic Acts in the Social Media [PDF]
, 2013 This paper investigates pragmatic acts in the discourse of tweeters and online feedback comments on the activities of Boko Haram, a terrorist group in Nigeria. The tweets and comments illustrate acts used to express revolutionary feelings and reflect
Adegoke, Adetunji, Chiluwa, Innocent
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Is Peace Journalism possible in the ‘war’ against terror in Somalia? How the Kenyan Daily Nation and the Standard represented Operation Linda Nchi [PDF]
Conflict & Communication Online, 2012 This paper concludes that in Africa the non-Western press may have the best chance to employ peace journalism, given its proximity to major conflicts. Nevertheless, the Kenyan press has so far failed to take advantage of an ideal opportunity for such an ...
Fredrick Ogenga
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Restorative Connections: "From Parlour to Parliament," 25th & 26th May 2016 Conference Report [PDF]
, 2017 A lot has happened over the last decade in relation to restorative approaches in Ireland. A variety of settings, organisations and sectors are now familiar with this work, which is used both as a preventative measure and to tackle high-end offences ...
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Why Should we Worry about Nigeria's Fragile Security?
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores the multifaceted implications of Nigeria's persistent security crisis, highlighting its domestic, regional and global consequences. It examines the humanitarian toll, economic disruption, poverty, food insecurity and the erosion of social cohesion within Nigeria. Regionally, it analyses how Nigeria's instability exacerbates
Onyedikachi Madueke
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Non-U.S. Funders of Media Assistance Projects [PDF]
, 2005 Examines support for independent media by government agencies, foundations, and multi-national groups outside the U.S. and provides a list of active donors in the field.
Lee B. Becker, Tudor Vlad
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Scandinavian Political Studies, EarlyView.Abstract We analyze challenges and adaptation strategies of Nordic legal overseers, the Parliamentary Ombudsmen and Chancellors of Justice in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, amid the COVID‐19 crisis. We study how the accountability capacities of the legal overseers were affected when standard practices of inclusive decision‐making were severed ...
Tero Erkkilä +2 more
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Implementing peace journalism: The role of conflict stages [PDF]
Conflict & Communication Online, 2009 Efforts to put the ideas of peace journalism into practice have so far largely neglected the role of the different stages of conflicts. With reference to an empirically-based model of six factors that influence the production of conflict coverage, this ...
Burkhard Bläsi
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An appraisal of the applicability of development journalism in the context of public service broadcasting [PDF]
, 2006 The concept of ‘development journalism’ has, over time, become possessed by demons of all sorts of confusion. If we want to wrest any useful principles from the concept, it is important that we exorcise the demons it has come to be associated with, not ...
Banda, Fackson
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Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
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It should be fair to criticize even noble ideas – Counterplea by Thomas Hanitzsch [PDF]
Conflict & Communication Online, 2007 In this paper the author responds to the reasoning by Jake Lynch (“Peace journalism and its discontents”) and Samuel Peleg (“In defense of peace journalism: A rejoinder”), published in the same issue of conflict & communication online (http://www.cco ...
Thomas Hanitzsch
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