A Communications Cornucopia ( edited with R. Noll, Brookings Institution Press, 1998); Democratizing Media, Democratizing the State, (edited with Beata Rozumilowicz and Stefan G. Verhulst, London; Routledge, 2001); Media and Sovereignty: Global Information Revolution and Its Challenge to State Power (MIT Press, 2002); "Seizing Transmitters: National identity in Bosnia," chapter in J. Muller (ed), Memory and Power, Cambridge University Press (2002), "Ownership in Russia,"(with P. Krug,) in IIC Media Ownership and Control in the Age of Convergence, 1996. "The Market for Loyalties and a Global Communications Commission," Intermedia (1994); and numerous other scholarly articles about broadcasting and regulation in transitional societies. Ellen Mickiewicz of Duke University is another expert whose writing about broadcasting policy reform and other aspects of media development in postCommunist societies is worth examining. Mickiewicz, who has served on the board of IREX, currently is writing a chapter on"Transition and Democratization: The Many Dimensions of the Impact and Roles of Journalists," in a forthcoming new edition of the 1998 book, The Politics of News, the News of Politics (Graber, D., Norris, P., and McQuail, D., eds, Congressional Quarterly press). Her original chapter in their 1998 edition was "Transition and Democracy: The Role of Journalists in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union." She also wrote "Media, Transition and Democracy: Television and the Transformation of Russia," in A Communications Cornucopia, (Noll, R. and Price, M., 1998.) MEDIA AND CONFLICT
Internews Network and the Search for Common Ground, two U.S.-based NGOs, have extensive information on their websites about efforts to train media to handle conflict resolution. Kumar’s 1999 USAID report, The Role of Media in Democracy: A Strategic Approach (June, 1999, USAID Center for Democracy and Governance, Bureau for Global Programs, Field Support and Research), discusses how this subset of media development differs from other capacity-building. Becker and Vlad also wrote a report to the U.S. Institute of Peace, Developing and Evaluating Alternative Approaches to Media Coverage of Conflict, (Washington, D.C., 2005). REGIONAL ANALYSES
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There are some strong regional specialists now covering the key regions of the developing world. They are increasingly contributing to regional knowledge – sharing processes such the Africa Media Development Initiative, a partnership of the BBC World Service Trust with the Ahmadu Bello University (Nigeria),the School of Journalism at Rhodes University (South Africa) and a network of 17 8 leading African media and communications researchers. In addition to this, an unprecedented number of media practitioners, media assistance organizations, owners and academics took part in 2006 in a major assessment of the Africa media development landscape as part of the Strengthening Africa’s Media (STREAM) process facilitated by the UN Economic Commission for Africa 9 supported by DFID and the Open Society Foundation. Thai journalist Kavi Chongkittavorn is a founder of the Southeast Asian Press Association (SEAPA) who has monitored media development in the region with numerous articles in foreign affairs journals. He recently assessed the present
MEDIA MATTERS SECTION 4: Mapping the Sector: Literature, Surveys and Resources
A useful resource is Monroe Price’s Forging Peace: International Conflict: Peacekeeping, Human Rights and the Management of Media Space (edited with Mark Thompson), Edinburgh University Press, 1992.
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