The Media of Conflict: War Reporting and Representations of Ethnic Violence

Part I War, Ethnicity, Media
1. Countering Myths of Ethnic War
2. Ethnic Pervasion
3. 'Who's It Between?' Ethnic War and Rational Violence
4. A Duty of Care? Ethnographic Films in War
5. Ethnicity and the Media

Part II Case Studies
6. Neither Treason Nor Conspiracy: Reflections on Media Coverage of the Gulf War 1990-1991
7. Ethnicity and Reports of the 1992-95 Bosnia Conflict
8. Culture, Media and the Politics of Disintegration and Ethnic Division in Former Yugoslavia
9. Nationalism, Ethnic Antagonism and Mass Communication in Greece
10. Reporting and Misrepresenting the Horn of Africa
11. War and Ethnicity in Liberia
12. Representations of Ethnic Conflict in the Kenyan Media
13. Media Ethnicisation and the International Response to War and Genocide in Rwanda
14. The War in the North: Ethnicity in Ugandan Press Explanations of Conflict, 1996-1997
15. The Media and Post-Independence Violence in Matebeleland, Zimbabwe - Press Coverage and Internet Debate.

Tim Allen is a reader at the London School of Economics and director of the post-graduate programme in Development Studies.