Representing Mass Violence: Conflicting Responses to Human Rights Violations in Darfur
Abstract
How do interventions by the UN Security Council and the International Criminal Court influence representations of mass violence? What images arise instead from the humanitarianism and diplomacy fields? How are these competing perspectives communicated to the public via mass media? Zooming in on the case of Darfur, Joachim J. Savelsberg analyzes more than three thousand news reports and opinion pieces and interviews leading newspaper correspondents, NGO experts, and foreign ministry officials from eight countries to show the dramatic differences in the framing of mass violence around the world and across social fields.
Keywords
public opinion; press coverage; foreign affairs; darfur; human rights; mass violence; Genocide; Humanitarian aid; International Criminal Court; Sudan; War in DarfurDOI
10.1525/luminos.4ISBN
9780520963085OCN
926981099Publisher
University of California PressPublisher website
https://www.ucpress.edu/Publication date and place
Oakland, California, 2015Classification
General and world history
History and Archaeology
20th century, c 1900 to c 1999
Sociology
Legal aspects of criminology