Media, Conflict and Peacebuilding

• Framework for Success: Fragile States and Societies Emerging from Conflict
  This strategic framework is crafted to be useful to (and ideally shared by) all the actors involved in post-conflict stability and state-building operations (i.e., military, government, NGO, IGO, private sector, and host nation leaders). It is organized around end states the ultimate goals of societies emerging from conflict. It also includes critical leadership responsibilities that are crucial to mission success. This framework is most valuable in planning and organizing operations, but it also has great value as an underlying structure from which training and education programs, monitoring efforts, and coordination mechanisms can cascade. It also has value as an organizing framework for cataloging documents, resources, and effective practices.
  Download the framework (PDF - 853KB)


• Special Reports, USIPeace Briefings, and Conference Papers
• Media and Conflict: Afghanistan As a Relative Success Story
  Special Report, January 2008
• Developing Media in Stabilization and Reconstruction Operations
  Stabilization and Reconstruction Series, October 2007
• The Role of the Media in Conflict
  USIPeace Briefing, July 2007
• Confronting the Truth: Truth Commissions and Societies in Transition
  DVD, July 2007
• Arab Media: Tools of the Governments: Tools for the People?
  Virtual Diplomacy Series, June 2005
• Use and Abuse of Media in Vulnerable Societies
  Special Report, October 2003
• The News Media and Peace Processes: The Middle East and Northern Ireland
  Peaceworks, January 2001
• The Mass Media’s Impact on Managing International Affairs
  Peace Watch, June 1997
• The Media’s Role in Preventing and Moderating Conflict
  Virtual Diplomacy Paper, April 1997
• Managing Communications: Lessons from Interventions in Africa
  Special Report, March 1997


• USIP Books
  • How We Missed the Story: Osama bin Laden, the Taliban, and the Hijacking of Afghanistan
    Roy Gutman, January 2008
  • Terror on the Internet: The New Arena, the New Challenges
    Gabriel Weimann, May 2006
  • Prime Time Crime: Balkan Media in War and Peace
    Kemal Kurspahic, January 2003
  • Late-Breaking Foreign Policy: The News Media’s Influence on Peace Operations
    Warren P. Strobel, May 1997
  
  
• Non-USIP Documents
• World Bank: The Right to Tell: The Role of Mass Media in Economic Development (PDF)
• UNESCO: Media: Conflict Prevention and Reconstruction

 Back to Media, Conflict and Peacebuilding