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Africa's Deadliest Conflict: Media Coverage of the Humanitarian Disaster in the Congo and the United Nations Response, 1997-2008

Africa's Deadliest Conflict: Media Coverage of the Humanitarian Disaster in the Congo and the United Nations Response, 1997-2008

Soderlund, Walter C.
Briggs, E. Donald
Najem, Tom Pierre

Paperback

General Political ScienceGeneral SociologySocial Movements

ISBN10: 1554588359
ISBN13: 9781554588350
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Published: Aug 10 2012
Pages: 275
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Africa's Deadliest Conflict deals with the complex intersection of the legacy of post-colonial history--a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions--and changing norms of international intervention associated with the idea of human security and the responsibility to protect (R2P). It attempts to explain why, despite a softening of norms related to the sanctity of state sovereignty, the international community dealt so ineffectively with a brutal conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which between 1997 and 2011 claimed an estimated 5.5 million. In particular, the book focuses on the role of mass media in creating a will to intervene, a role considered by many to be the key to prodding a reluctant international community to action.

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