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Title:Special issue on peace and communication in post-conflict Africa
Editor:Mutua-Kombo, Eddah
Year:2009
Periodical:Africa Media Review (ISSN 0258-4913)
Volume:17
Issue:1-2
Pages:122
Language:English
Geographic terms:Africa
Ghana
Kenya
Rwanda
Sudan
United States
Subjects:mass media
conflict resolution
refugees
peacebuilding
communication
Abstract:This special issue of 'Africa Media Review' assembles essays that highlight factors that inform the theorization of peace communication in post-conflict Africa. Specifically, the authors use experiences of civil wars in Liberia, Togo, Sudan and Somalia, genocide in Rwanda, and post-election violence in Kenya to address a wide range of issues inherent in conceptualizing peace communication. Eddah Mutua-Kombo employs ethnographic research to argue for the importance of including women in research about post-genocide Rwanda. Benson Oduor Ojwang analyses the role of the print media in the 2007-2008 post-election violence in Kenya. Heidi Frontani, Kristine Silvestri and Amanda Brown deal with the media image and social integration of Liberian and Togolese refugees in Ghana. Hala Asmina Guta discusses the politicization and Arabization of the education system in Sudan, arguing that the failure to recognize cultural, religious and linguistic diversity in school limits the prospect of using education to promote peace. Susan Kilonzo employs a historical-critical approach to show how religious institutions have failed to provide a voice to the voiceless in the aftermath of post-election violence in Kenya. Finally, Sarah Drake and Eddah Mutua-Kombo examine ways in which Somali refugees embody post-conflict life in the United States (USA). [ASC Leiden abstract]
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