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The Independence of South Sudan - The Role of Mass Media in the Responsibility to Prevent (Paperback)
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The Independence of South Sudan - The Role of Mass Media in the Responsibility to Prevent (Paperback)
Series: Studies in International Governance
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The Responsibility to Protect, the report of the International
Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS), focused
on three international responsibilities in the area of human
security: the responsibility to prevent, the responsibility to
react, and the responsibility to rebuild. The report acknowledged
the difficulty of identifying countries likely to experience
widespread civil violence and then predicting when this would
occur. But the authors of this book submit that if ever a case of a
""responsibly to prevent"" was possible to anticipate, South Sudan
was it. A Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) ended the Sudanese
second civil war in 2005 with a call for a referendum to be held in
South Sudan in 2011 to determine the region's future, In the event,
an overwhelming majority voted for independence for the region. The
question that motivated this book is whether the CPA would set in
motion a process resulting in yet another brutal conflict, and, if
that conflict was widely predicted, what should be the response of
the international community in terms of ""responsibility to
prevent""? Mass media coverage has been identified as an important
factor in mobilizing the international community into action in
crisis and potential crisis situations; however, the impact of
media reporting on actual decision-making is unclear. Thirty-plus
years of research has demonstrated consistent agenda-setting
effects, while a more recent stream of research has confirmed
significant framing effects, the latter most likely to occur in
cases where advocacy framing is used. This book examines the way in
which the press in Canada and the United States interpreted the
potential for violence that accompanied South Sudan's independence
in 2011, and whether or not their governments had a responsibility
to prevent.
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