RADIO and TV BROADCASTING

Our Rwandan Radio Transcripts page includes the transcripts of hate radio broadcasts by RTLM, Radio Rwanda and Radio Muhabura in 1994. The transcripts are available in English, French and Kinyarwanda. The pages are still being developed and more information will be added soon.

Soap Operas and Fertility: Evidence from Brazil

Eliana La Ferrara, Alberto Chong, Suzanne Duryeam, Inter-American Development Bank, October 2008

Machisma - How a mix of female empowerment and steamy soap operas helped bring down Brazil's fertility rate and stoke its vibrant economy

Cynthia Gorney, The National Geographic, September 2011

Africa, Journalism and the World - News, comments and analysis on hate radio in Africa, and UK and African media coverage of conflict in Africa.

MIGS Occasional Paper Series: Keith Somerville, "Kenya:Violence, Hate Speech and Vernacular Radio", March 2010

Speech, Power, Violence: A Seminar of Experts

Loretta Hieber, Media Action International. Lifeline Media: Reaching Populations in Crisis--A Guide to Developing Media Projects in Conflict Situations (2001).
Lifeline Media: Reaching Populations in Crisis

Radio for Peacebuilding, Africa. Aims to develop, spread and encourage the use of radio broadcasting techniques and content for peacebuilding. Also available in French.
Radio for PeaceBuilding Africa

Ross Howard, Operational Framework for Media and Peacebuilding
Ross Howard PDF file

Clandestine Radio Intel Web: Includes extensive information about free radio movements around the world and links to other clandestine radio sites.
ClandestineRadio.com

Susan Manuel, United Nations Department of Public Information; UN Media and Post Conflict Peace-keeping. Article Prepared for UNESCO Seminar ‘Support to Media in Violent Conflict and in Countries in Transition’, May 3 2004


BBC Worldservice Trust

Institut Panos Paris: Useful links to media resources around the world.
Institut Panos Paris- Links

Population Communications International: 
PCI home page

International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda: An overview of the indictement, case profile, judgement and sentence, etc of Ferdinand Nahimana, charged on the basis of his control over RTLM Radio during the Rwandan Genocide. Accessible by clicking on cases in the left-hand side menu, following the status of cases on the subsequent page and finding Nahimana under cases on appeal.
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda- Nahimana case


Institute for Media, Peace & Security - Home

The Hirondelle Foundation: Media for Peace and Human Dignity "is an organization of journalists which sets up and operates media services in crisis areas. It is the only organization in the world which has such specialized experience in this field." Its site features text in English, French, German and Italian.

The Institute for War & Peace Reporting "strengthens local journalism in areas of conflict. By training reporters, facilitating dialogue and providing reliable information, it supports peace, democracy and development in societies undergoing crisis and change. . . . IWPR runs major programmes in Afghanistan, the Balkans, the Caucasus, Central Asia and Iraq. It also manages a special reporting project on war crimes tribunals and the recently launched Women’s Reporting & Dialogue Programme. The Institute maintains offices in Almaty, Baku, Belgrade, Bishkek, The Hague, Kabul, Pristina, Sarajevo, Skopje, Tashkent, Tbilisi and Dushanbe with representatives in Tirana, Vladikavkaz and Yerevan."

Montreal Institute For Genocide and Human Rights Studies
Concordia University
1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. West
Montreal, Quebec, H3G 1M8 Canada
Tel.: (514) 848-2424 ext 5729 or 2404
Fax: (514) 848-4538