The media of conflict : war reporting and representations of ethnic violence / edited by Tim Allen and Jean Seaton.

Part 1 War, ethnicity, media: countering myths of ethnic war; ethnic pervasion; "who's it between"? "ethnic war" and rational violence; a duty of care? ethnographic films at war; ethnicity and the media. Part 2 Case studies: neither treason nor conspiracy -reflections on media coverage of the Gulf War 1990-1991; ethnicity and reports of the 1992-95 Bosnia conflict; culture, media and the politics of disintegration and ethnic division in former Yugoslavia; nationalism, ethnic antagonism and mass communication in Greece; reporting and mis-representing the Horn of Africa; war and ethnicity in Liberia; representations of ethnic conflict in the Kenyan media; media ethnicisation and the international response to war and genocide in Rwanda; the war in the north - ethnicity in Uganda press explanations of conflict, 1996-1997; the media and post independence violence in Matebeleland, Zimbabwe - press coverage and Internet debate.

Includes bibliographical references and index.