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| IWPR's printed publications provide in-depth analysis
of conflict, media and human rights issues in the regions we cover.
Cross-community reporting projects link journalists across national
or state lines. Media monitoring reports analyse and offer detailed
assessment of local media coverage. Occasional reports posted by
associated organisations provide analysis and investigation of political
and human rights issues. |
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| Reporting
Human Rights in the Philippines: A Field Guide for Journalists
and Media Workers |
| Main Author and Editor Red Batario;
Writers Yvonne T. Chua, Luz Rimban, Ibarra C. Mateo; |
| Project Coordinator Rorie Fajardo; Foreword
Alan Davis. |
| Philippine Human Rights Reporting
Project |
Reporting Human Rights in the Philippines:
A Field Guide for Journalists and Media Workers is a handy-sized
105-page book designed to help local journalists improve their
awareness and coverage of human rights issues. Designed as
an introduction to the subject for journalists who know little,
it aims to help them incorporate basic human rights issues
and thinking into every day reporting.
The book suggests that understanding human rights is essential
for media workers in developing and transitional countries;
and that countries may not fairly develop unless journalists
become more aware and engaged with the issues. Covering everything
from poverty reporting to summary killings and with useful
safety and security tips for reporters going out on difficult
assignments, it was published in May 2009 as part of our Philippine
Human Rights Reporting Project to root better human rights
awareness in local media and in society at large. |
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| Assignment
Justice: A practical guide for Sudanese journalists |
Written by Janet Anderson, Lisa
Clifford, Peter Eichstaedt and Katy Glassborow.
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Translated by Hilda Mokh. Editorial consultant
Dr. Haydar Badawi Sadig.
Design and layout by Srdan Pajic with Arabic layout by Marianne
Sahouri. |
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IWPR Netherlands has produced a manual
for Sudanese journalists aimed at increasing local capacity
for court reporting and tackling issues relating to international
justice and local trials.
Drawing on IWPR's training experience in other countries
in which the International Criminal Court is active, such
as Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, the manual
takes journalists through all the steps necessary to understand
international justice and produce balanced, accurate stories
on the subject and related issues. |
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| Live from
Africa: A Handbook for African Radio Journalists |
| Written by Ivor Gaber with Brian
Barber and Fiona Ledger, with editing and contributions from
Michael Farquhar and John MacLeod. |
| Photography by Paul Kavuma and IWPR Contributors |
| IWPR Africa |
The handbook reviews reporting on general,
political and human rights issues. It has sections on location
recording and computerbased audio editing. It provides guidance
on safety and security and sensitive reporting in conflict
areas, as well as libel issues. Developed out of the radio
journalism workshops that were run as part of IWPR’s Uganda
Radio Network project, it also reviews the particular requirements
for reporting for IWPR.
Each chapter provides exercises, discussion sections and
further references. The handbook can either be used in coordination
with an international trainer or can be worked through on
its own. |
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| Reporting
Justice: A Handbook on Covering War Crimes Courts |
| Written by Stacy Sullivan and Janet
Anderson, with editing and contributions from Anthony Borden,
Vera Frankl and John MacLeod. |
| Photography by Marcus Bleasdale and IWPR
Contributors |
| IWPR Africa |
Whatever drives you to report on justice,
you need to have the tools to do it. That is what this handbook
sets out to provide. It is intended for journalists undertaking
one of the most challenging, important and potentially rewarding
of tasks: reporting on the trials of war crimes suspects or
investigating war crimes on the ground.
War crimes reporting, like any journalistic specialisation,
makes its own demands and has its own rules. The historical
background, procedures and law must be understood. |
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| Handbook for the
Radio Journalism Course in Political Reporting |
| By Ivor Gaber with Paul Kavuma
and Stephen Eriaku. |
| Supported by IWPR Africa |
| This Course Handbook has been produced
to accompany the Uganda Radio Network Advanced Radio Journalism
Course, which is being run throughout Uganda for freelance
radio journalists in 2005 and 2006. The Handbook, which follows
the day-by-day course programme, contains transcripts of PowerPoint
presentations plus additional supporting material. It is important
to note that the material presented in text boxes represents
the PowerPoint presentations and can only be properly understood
in the context of the course itself. |
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| War and Peace in the Caucasus |
| 100 selected articles from IWPR’s
Caucasus Reporting Service |
| This collection summarizes in 100 articles
the basic events that have taken place in the Caucasus from
1999-2005 - a period during which not only saw the beginning
of a new millennium, but of new developments in the region.
Every week during these six years, the Caucasus Reporting
Service (CRS) of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting
provided readers around the world a view on these events.
This unique resource published investigations by local journalists
conducted according to international standards, joint cross-border
reports, and analysis of developments taking place in the
furthest reaches of the region. |
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| Europe and the Recognition of New States
in Yugoslavia |
| By Richard Caplan |
| Cambridge University Press, 2005 |
| Europe's recognition of new states in Yugoslavia
remains one of the most controversial episodes of the collapse
of Yugoslavia. Richard Caplan offers a vivid narrative of
events, exploring the highly assertive role that Germany played
in the episode, the reputedly catastrophic consequences of
recognition (for Bosnia and Herzegovina in particular) and
the radical departure from customary state practice represented
by the EU's use of political criteria as the basis of recognition.
The book examines the strategic logic and consequences of
the EU's actions but also explores the wider implications,
offering insights into European security policy at the end
of the Cold War, the relationship of international law to
international relations and the management of ethnic conflict.
The significance of this book extends well beyond Yugoslavia
as policymakers continue to wrestle with the challenges posed
by violent conflict associated with state fragmentation. |
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| Reporting
for Change: A Handbook for Local Journalists in Crisis
Areas |
| By
C Bickler, A Borden, Y Chazan, A Davis, S Jukes, J MacLeod,
A Stroehlein, S Sullivan, J Vultee, J West |
| 2004 © Institute
for War & Peace Reporting |
| Reporters
at the frontlines are at risk as never before. But
with many countries moving towards democracy, the
role of local journalists has never been more important.
This book is a practical, hands-on manual to help
local journalists contribute to positive change in
societies undergoing major crises.
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International Governance of War-Torn
Territories
Rule and Reconstruction |
| By Richard Caplan |
| Oxford University Press, January
2005 |
This major new work from a leading scholar
provides a comprehensive treatment of recent attempts at
the international administration of of war-torn territories.
Since the mid-1990s the United Nations and other multilateral
organizations have been entrusted with exceptional authority
for the administration of war-torn and strife-ridden territories.
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, Eastern Slavonia, Kosovo, and
East Timor these organizations have assumed responsibility
for governance to a degree unprecedented in recent history.
These initiatives represent some of the boldest experiments
in the management and settlement of intra-state conflict
ever attempted by third parties. |
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| Speech on Freedom of Speech |
Three speeches in defence of freedom of
speech in Uzbekistan.
By Karim Bakhriyev |
| Moscow, R. Elinin Publishing House,
2004 |
What makes this book remarkable is, in
the first instance, its author's personality. A famous journalist
and person of extraordinary fate, he was among the ideologists
of Uzbekistan's sovereignty, a Parliament member and the first
chief editor of the first (and so far the only) independent
newspaper Khurriyat. Then he, like many, performed a political
tumble, and became an ardent critic of the present government
criticizing it for its attitude towards mass media, and inconsistency
in carrying out democratic and other reforms.
Alo Khojayev, Publicist, Tashkent, Uzbekistan |
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The Siberian Curse
How Communist Planners Left Russia Out in the Cold |
| By Fiona Hill and Clifford Gaddy |
| The Brookings Institution Press,
2003 |
Can Russia ever become a normal, free-market,
democratic society? Why have so many reforms failed since
the Soviet Union’s collapse? In this highly-original work,
Fiona Hill and Clifford Gaddy argue that Russia’s geography,
history, and monumental mistakes perpetrated by Soviet planners
have locked it into a dead-end path to economic ruin.
Shattering a number of myths that have long persisted in the
West and in Russia, The Siberian Curse explains why Russia’s
greatest assets—its gigantic size and Siberia’s natural resources—are
now the source of one of its greatest weaknesses. |
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Black Garden
Armenia and Azerbaijan through Peace and War |
By Thomas de Waal
2003 |
| In the beautiful hills of the Caucasus,
Armenia and Azerbaijan are still locked in a quarrel that
has blighted the entire region between Russia and Iran, the
Black and the Caspian Seas. In Black Garden, IWPR Caucasus
Editor Thomas de Waal tells the full story of the tragic dispute
over Nagorny Karabakh and its aftermath for the first time.
He travels the length and breadth of Armenia and Azerbaijan,
talking to veterans, refugees and the inhabitants of ruined
towns and villages. He recreates the story of the descent
into conflict of two former Soviet neighbours, its disastrous
consequences and the confused efforts of the "Great Powers"-Russia,
France and the United States-to bring peace to the Caucasus. |
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| The Atlas of War and Peace |
By Dan Smith
Fourth edition, 2003 |
| At rare moments it seems a new era is starting
before our eyes and history is about to change very fast.
September 11, 2001 was such a moment. The latest edition of
this classic reference takes us beyond the headlines. It provides
a global overview of the causes and consequences of war today
and the dynamics of peacemaking. |
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| Ohrid and Beyond |
A cross-ethnic investigation into the Macedonian
crisis.
2002 © Institute for War & Peace Reporting |
In the end, the tinderbox did not blow. Throughout
the tortured decade of the wars of Yugoslav secession, the logic
of ethnically driven conflict - once launched and fuelled by the
major capitals - tore its way through country by country, and village
by village. The long fuse was always projected to lead inexorably
to Macedonia, and a potential regional conflict that could surpass
all others in violence.
Taken from introduction by Anthony Borden. |
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| Reporting the Future |
A handbook for Afghan journalists
2002 © Institute for War & Peace Reporting |
| IWPR's new book is designed to help Afghan journalists
in three ways. First, it serves as an explanation in their own language
to many of the ideas and concepts behind international journalism.
Second, it provides practical guidance, including twelve separate
exercises, on many of the basic techniques of journalism. Third,
the glossary at the back is intended to serve as a reference to
explain and introduce many concepts which may be new to Afghan journalists.
A wider range of reporting on economic and humanitarian issues is
essential to strong public debate - and good government and international
community strategies - if Afghanistan's bid for peace and development
is to succeed. |
| The Handbook is published in print in English,
Dari and Pashto. |
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| Public Record of Afghanistan's Loya Jirga |
Full Transcript, 2002, 337 pages
© Institute for War & Peace Reporting
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With support from the International Organisation
of Migration, IOM, IWPR reported on every stage of the Loya Jirga.
From this recording, a transcript has been created in local languages
(Dari & Pashto). This transcript is in the process of being edited
and translated in a book and CD-ROM. In the meantime, IWPR in conjunction
with IOM is happy to make available in PDF format a full and un-edited
transcript of all 70 hours of the Loya Jirga proceedings. |
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| Special Report on Middle East |
| IWPR presents special comment and analysis from
those involved in the Middle East conflict. Israelis and Palestinians
share their fears and frustrations over the shattered peace process
- as well as their underlying faith that common ground could still
be found. |
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| Regional Media in Conflict |
| Case studies in local war reporting |
| In an attempt to encourage greater professional
awareness among local journalists who may find themselves reporting
conflict in the course of their work, IWPR produced comparative
study of recent media coverage in four conflict areas - Georgia,
Cambodia, Bosnia and South Africa. Using journalists/researchers
from each country, we sought to examine local perception of media
behaviour. |
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| Polls Apart |
| Media Coverage of Parliamentary Elections, Belarus,
October 2000 |
| Local media coverage of the October 2000 parliamentary
elections in Belarus was overwhelmingly driven by political and
not professional concerns. With the mass media in the country divided
into pro- and anti-government camps, the voters were the ultimate
losers. Neither side presented members of the public with sufficient
objective information for them to make an informed choice. |
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| Out of Time: Draskovic, Djindjic and
Serbian Opposition Against Milosevic |
A publication by Beta News Agency and the Institute
for War & Peace Reporting.
Edited by Dejan Anastasijevic and Anthony Borden,
and published in the run-up to the September 2000 federal election
in Yugoslavia, Out of Time provides a unique, in-depth view of the
then leading opposition figures, and analyses their struggle to
bring about political change in Serbia. |
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Recent
double bombing in Baghdad has cast doubt on the government's
ability to guarantee security and prompted fears such violence
may affect voter turnout in anticipated January elections,
writes iWPR reporter Ali Karim. 
Protests
are sweeping the country in the wake of allegations that American
troops burned copies of the Quran during a patrol in a province
near Kabul, a charge strongly denied by U.S. military officials,
writes IWPR reporter Abdullah Obaidi.
“The
challenges of organizing a new poll within a few weeks are
daunting, and it may ultimately prove impossible to carry
out,” forecasts IWPR editor Hafizullah Gardesh.
Jean
MacKenzie, IWPR Afghanistan director, assesses reports of
low voter turnout and allegations of fraud in country’s presidential
and provincial councils elections.