Human Rights Journalism: Advances in Reporting Distant Humanitarian Interventions - Hardcover

Shaw, I.

 
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Synopsis

Shaw argues that journalism should focus on deconstructing the underlying structural and cultural causes of political violence such as poverty, famine and human trafficking, and play a proactive (preventative), rather than reactive (prescriptive) role in humanitarian intervention.

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About the Author

IBRAHIM SEAGA SHAW is Senior Lecturer at the University of Northumbria, UK. With a background in journalism spanning 26 years in Sierra Leone, Britain and France, he edited Sierra Leone's award winning Expo Times newspaper in the mid 1990s. He holds a PhD from the Sorbonne and is co-editor of Expanding Peace Journalism (2011).

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ISBN 10:  1349340413 ISBN 13:  9781349340415
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
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