British Media and the Rwandan Genocide
Throughout the 1990s, humanitarian interventionism sat at a crossroads, where ideas about rights and duties within and beyond borders collided with an international reality of civil conflict where the most basic human rights were violated in the most brutal manner. This growing awareness of humanitarian crises has been enabled by a more globalized media which increasingly shape public perceptions of distant crises, public opinion, and political decision-making.
Clarke examines the extent to which the public discourse, and particular concepts, including those of an ethical and legal nature, influenced British newspaper coverage of the 1994 crisis in Rwanda, and, in turn, the extent to which that coverage influenced the British Parliaments response to the crisis. Through his development and application of a broader methodological approach that combines both quantitative and qualitative analyses, the book offers a fuller understanding of the relationship between media coverage, parliamentary debate, and policy formulation, and the central role that the globalized media plays in this process.
Integrating ethics, law and empirical analysis of the media to obtain a more cohesive understanding of the chemistry of the media-public policy nexus, this work will be of interest to graduates and scholars in a range of areas, including Genocide Studies, the Responsibility to Protect, the Media and Politics, and International Relations.
John Nathaniel Clarke has served with the United Nations in a variety of political, humanitarian and developmental roles. He completed a PhD at Cambridge University (Peterhouse) and held a Post-doctoral fellowship at Yale University.
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Names: Clarke, John Nathaniel author.
Title: British media and the Rwandan Genocide / John Nathaniel Clarke.
Description: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017. |
Series: Routledge global institutions series | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017013923| ISBN 9781138937321 (hardback) | ISBN 9781315675589 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: RwandaHistoryCivil War, 1994Mass media and the war. | RwandaHistoryCivil War, 1994AtrocitiesPress coverageGreat Britain. | GenocidePress coverageRwanda.
Classification: LCC DT450.435 .C53 2017 | DDC 967.57104/31dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017013923
ISBN: 978-1-138-93732-1 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-67558-9 (ebk)
