| Publication |
2003.
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| Description |
p183-202
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| Summary/Abstract |
While conflict and propaganda have twinned each other throughout history, international peacemaking and peacekeeping interventions are a recent phenomenon. These operations have had to develop a capacity for tackling the problem of media manipulation in societies racked by, or recovering from, massive conflict. These efforts have been conducted for the most part in the dark. There was little organisational awareness of how to react either to the incendiary uses of media in Rwanda before and during the 1994 genocide, or to the systematic manipulation of public opinion in Bosnia after Dayton. International peace operations have often seemed at a loss when facing hostile propaganda emitted by host governments after ‘consenting’ to deployments on their soil.
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