JOURNALISM MODULE 1: COVERING CONFLICT
Human and Civil Rights: Essential Primary Sources, Adrienne Wilmoth Lerner, Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, and K. Lee Lerner (Gale 2007)
Regional readings:
KENYA
“Special Edition Kenya: Conflict Sensitive Journalism,” Ross Howard, (International Media Support, April 1, 2008) http://www.comminit.com/en/node/280934/38
“The Kenyan 2007 elections and their aftermath: the role of the media,” BBC World Service Trust. London. 2008. http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/trust/pdf/kenya_policy_briefing_08.pdf
UGANDA
“Uganda: Proposed Ugandan media law threatens the right to freedom of expression,” Amnesty International, May 11, 2010 http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AFR59/006/2010/en
BOSNIA
“Escalation- and deescalation-oriented aspects in the media construction of the Bosnia conflict,” Wilhelm Kempf, Diskussionsbeiträge der Projektgruppe Friedensforschung Konstanz, Nr. 46. http://kops.ub.uni-konstanz.de/volltexte/1999/273/pdf/273_1.pdf
“The Former Yugoslavia: The Media and Violence,” Predrag Simic, RFE/FL Research Report, Vol. 3, No. 5. http://promusica.se/Library/Electronic%20texts/simic_the_former.pdf
KOSOVA
The Media and Human Rights in Kosovo, Yamila Milovic, The International Council on Human Rights Policy, Review Meeting, Media: Reporting Human Rights Issues, Geneva, Nov. 27-28, 2000 http://www.ichrp.org/files/papers/45/106_-_Kosovo_Media_Reporting_Human_Rights_Issues
_Milovic__Yamila__2000.pdf
JOURNALISM MODULE 2: JUDICIAL INSTITUTIONS
Human and Civil Rights: Essential Primary Sources, Adrienne Wilmoth Lerner, Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, and K. Lee Lerner (Gale 2007)
Regional readings:
BOSNIA
“Covering ICTY and War Crimes: The Doom of ‘Our Side’ and ‘Your Side,’” Radenko Udovicic, Mediaonline, 12.07.2002. http://www.mediaonline.ba/en/?ID=225
JOURNALISM MODULE 3: THE MEANING OF OBJECTIVITY
Reporting Conflict: New Directions in Peace Journalism, Jake Lynch and Johan Galtung (University of Queensland Press, 2010).
Regional readings:
KENYA
“How far to go: Kenya’s Media Caught in the turmoil,” International Media Support. Copenhagen. 2008, available at http://www.comminit.com/?q=fragile-contexts/content/how-far-go-kenyas-media-caught-turmoil-failed-election
“The Kenyan 2007 elections and their aftermath: the role of the media,” BBC World Service Trust. London. 2008, available at http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/trust/pdf/kenya_policy_briefing_08.pdf
SOUTHEAST ASIA
“War or Peace Journalism? Asian Newspaper Coverage of Conflicts,” Seow Ting Lee and Crispin C. Maslog, Journal of Communication (June 2005) http://www.iepcd.org/files/Download/WarorPeaceJournalism.pdf
JOURNALISM MODULE 6: TRAUMA AND SAFETY
Compassion Fatigue: How the Media Sell Disease, Famine, War, and Death, Susan D. Moeller, (Routledge, 1999)
Covering Violence: A Guide to Ethical Reporting About Victims & Trauma, Roger Simpson and William Cote (Columbia University Press, 2006)
Regional readings:
UGANDA
“Uganda: Proposed Ugandan media law threatens the right to freedom of expression,” Amnesty International, May 11, 2010 http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AFR59/006/2010/en
Human Rights for Journalists Network – Uganda http://www.hrnjuganda.org/freedom_Index.htm