War and Media Network

Academic Departments

Centre for Public Communications Research, Bournemouth University
"Established in 2003 at Bournemouth University’s Media School, the Centre for Public Communication Research (CPCR) aims to produce creative and rigorous research into public communication and the public sphere in the UK and abroad. Some of this research has international frames of reference: terrorism in the media and in public opinion, the rise of political marketing, the meaning of propaganda today, the citizen as consumer, the Internet and the public sphere, culture and emotion in organisational communication, the experience of screen-based game playing, and online consumer activism."

Kings College, War Studies Department

Institute for Communications Studies, Leeds University

Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies
"The Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies (JOMEC) has teaching interests in journalism and other contemporary media, including international media, media technologies, media development, film, radio, television, photojournalism, magazine journalism and public and media relations."

Sociology Department, City University
"The Sociology Department at City University is well-known for its globally oriented teaching and research.
One major research focus is the study of the media where we have particular interests in communications policy, media occupations and organisations, news programming, new technologies, and social effects.
Another is the process of globalisation itself where we are undertaking work on human rights, international NGOs, post-coloniality, diasporic identities, trade unions, and the gender issues that relate to work and occupations."

Glasgow Media Group, Glasgow University
"The Media Unit is a research based grouping of academics within the sociology department of Glasgow University. Much of its work is published under the name Glasgow Media Group, (aka Glasgow University Media Group). The Group consists mostly of people who have worked in the unit at Glasgow University, plus broadcasters and others who have published with us. The purpose of our work is to promote the development of new methodologies and substantive research in the area of media and communications."

Center for Mass Communication Research, Leicester
"The Centre for Mass Communication Research (CMCR) is a part of the University of Leicester’s Faculty of Social Sciences and is one of the UK’s leading centres for research and teaching in media and communications."

Applied Global Ethics, Leeds University
"The School of Applied Global Ethics is dedicated to the study of peace, conflict resolution, global development, politics, economics, international relations and applied religion. We aim to inspire our staff and students to work for change and make a difference to the human condition locally, nationally and internationally. The School is active in promoting global perspectives and an ethical culture throughout the University community and we encourage students to be actively involved in our activities. We are a centre for teaching, research, consultancy and professional development in applied ethics in a global context, which seeks to address global issues and the ethical dilemmas associated with them. It is an 'outside in' school, one that draws on the expertise of staff from across the university and which in turn reaches out across the university and communities to promote the importance of ethical reflection and global perspectives."

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Academic Resources

Institute for Commnications Studies Links Page, Leeds University

Professor Phil Taylor's (Leeds University) Page

Professor Martin Shaw's Website
including links to publications, and topics related to war, and war and media

SOSIG: war and battles links
SOSIG a trusted source of selected, high quality Internet information for researchers and practitioners in the social sciences, business and law. This page provides useful links on war and battles.

SOSIG: international conflict and security links
SOSIG a trusted source of selected, high quality Internet information for researchers and practitioners in the social sciences, business and law. This page provides useful links on international conflict and security

globalsite war and peace
"For critical social science. Adatabase of academically relevant online texts which covers sociology, international relations, politics, anthropology and specialised coverage includes Marxism, civil society, war and genocide links and downloadable articles"

INCORE:
"INCORE is a joint inititaive between the University of Ulster and the United Nations University. INCORE aims to address the management and resolution of conflict via a combination of research, training and other activities which inform and influence national and internatinal organisations working in the field of conflict

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Media and Conflict Links

UNESCO's program on media and communication
" aims at creating a mutual knowledge and understanding of peoples, through all means of mass communication. links to projects that aim at integrating mass media in the re-establishment of social bonds and to the reconciliation process. links to projects that aim to promote the freedom of the press and an independent and pluralistic media".

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Journalism Links

FAIR – fairness and accuracy in reporting
"FAIR, is a national media watch group offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986. We advocate for greater diversity in the press and by scrutinizing media practices that marginalize public interest, minority and dissenting viewpoints. As an anti-censorship organization, we expose neglected news stories and defend working journalists when they are muzzled. As a progressive group, FAIR believes that structural reform is ultimately needed to break up the dominant media conglomerates, establish independent public broadcasting and promote strong non-profit sources of information."

National Union of Journalists
"We are among the biggest and best-established journalists' unions in the world, with 34,000 members. These members cover the whole range of editorial work – staff and freelance, writers and reporters, editors and sub-editors, photographers and illustrators, working in broadcasting, newspapers, magazines, books, on the internet and in public relations. The union was founded in 1907 and has fought for journalists, their pay and conditions, their working rights and their professional freedom ever since."

IWPR: Institute for War and Peace Reporting
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.

International Federation of Journalists

The International Communications Forum
"The ICF is devoted to media ethics and freedoms of expression and information. It believes that these need to be accompanied by a high sense of responsibility and respect for every audience".

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Peace Reporting

Reporting the World
"A series of events, publications and discussions about issues of representation and responsibility in international news".

conflict and peace forum
"Conflict & Peace Forums are hosted by the Buddhist Society for the Creation of Value (SGI-UK) at Taplow Court in Buckinghamshire. The Aim: To apply conflict transformation analysis and skills to an ever-broader arena of activities, beginning with the media, business and economics and community building."

The Center for War, Peace and News Media
"The Center is headquartered at New York University's Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, where it was founded in 1985. The Center offers a Program that aims to bring together standard journalistic values with the insights and experiences of conflict management and resolution. The program aims to develop training manuals on multi-ethnic reporting projects and other media-based initiatives; and to develop research projects which explore and document journalistic options to help reduce intra-and international conflict".

Media Action International
"Media Action International aims to promote a more effective use of the media to help local populations in crises and to strengthen the role of information in humanitarian and development initiatives. The site contains information on projects, resources and useful links".

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Government and Military

Ministry of Defence

United Nations Homepage

NATO

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Information Warfare Site:
"IWS - The Information Warfare Site is an online resource that aims to stimulate debate on a variety of issues involving information security, information operations, computer network operations, homeland security and more. It is the aim of the site to develop a special emphasis on offensive and defensive information operations. Since our launch in December of 1999 IWS has been redesigned and continues to add key texts. We aim to be an essential research centre for every group interestedin information security and information operations".

The Defence, Press Broadcasting and Advisory Committee

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News Organisations

The Daily Mail Online

The Sun Online

The News of the World Online

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Online Journals

British Journalism Review
" The British Journalism Review is designed as a forum of analysis and debate, to monitor the media, submit the best as well as the worst to scrutiny, and to raise the level of the dialogue."

Index on Censorship
"Index on Censorship was founded in 1972 by Stephen Spender with the goal to protect the basic human right of free expression. For the past 31 years, Index has reported on censorship issues from all over the world and has added to the debates on those issues. In addition to the analysis, reportage and interviews, each Index contains a country by country list of free speech violations. These lists remain as extensive today as they were in the early days of Index. The list of writers who contribute to and support Index includes Jonathan Mirsky, Vaclav Havel, Nadine Gordimer, Salman Rushdie, Doris Lessing, Roger Kimball, Arthur Miller, A S Byatt, Yang Lian, Aung San Suu Kyi, Noam Chomsky, Julian Barnes, Ronald Dworkin, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Umberto Eco and Jack Mapanje. Index on Censorship is also a forum for new writers of whom the world will hear more."

Journal of Conflict Studies
"The Journal of Conflict Studies is issued twice a year. It is dedicated to the publication of scholarly research in the field of low-intensity conflict studies."

Journal for Crime, Conflict and Media (jc2m)
"The Journal for Crime, Conflict and the Media is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal exploring the critical nexus of mass media, criminal justice and conflict."

Journal of Political and Military Sociology
"The JPMS considers a variety of articles with diverse methodological and theoretical approaches. Politics and the established institutions are broadly defined to include not only the more established institutions within a given state and society but also those phenomena and political processes which are often outside the boundaries of the established order. In particular, the journal welcomes articles that focus on such topics as: power, ruling classes, elites, revolution, coup d'etats, dictatorship, espionage, geopolitics, nationalism, guerrillas, extremist movements, military and paramilitary organizations, political assassinations, violence, terrorism, genocide and mass murder, propaganda, ideologies, national security, alternatives to militarism, multinational corporations, articles on the new order and globalization. The JPMS also considers articles in regional studies and areas such as changes in Eastern European Societies, the European union, the Middle East, the Balkans, the former Soviet Union republics, and other areas of conflict in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The journal also publishes articles on social policy, essays, symposia, book reviews, comments, and rejoinders."

TRACK TWO
"A quarterly publication of the Centre for Conflict Resolution and the Media Peace Centre to promote innovative and constructive approaches to community and political conflict, as an alternative to traditional adversarial tactics".

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Research Centres

Oxford Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War
"The University of Oxford has been awarded a grant of over £1.1 million by the Leverhulme Trust to conduct research over a five-year period on 'The Changing Character of War'. The key feature of the Oxford bid is its inter-disciplinary nature. Located in the Centre for International Studies in the Department of Politics and International Relations , the programme is a collaboration between members of the Department, the Faculty of Modern History , and the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics in the Faculty of Philosophy. It also has links with and support from members of other Oxford departments/faculties, particularly the Faculty of Law".

The Centre for the Study of Civil War (CSCW)
"The Centre for the Study of Civil War (CSCW) at PRIO is a long-term, multidisciplinary initiative that seeks to understand: why civil wars break out, how they are sustained, and what it takes to end them".

IPPR (Institute for Public Policy Research)
"This British 'center left' think tank provides details of its programs which include a project on media and democracy. On the site are descriptions of the projects within the program as well as reports on the projects".

ERCOMER:
"A European research center with a strong interest in comparative research in the fields of international migration, ethnic relations, racism and ethnic conflict within the European context. ERCOMER is based at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Utrecht University, Netherlands. The site offers a description of on-going projects as well as a schedule for seminars, workshops and conferences. Of particular interest is; their project charting good and bad practices in media reporting on ethnic issues, immigration and racism across EU member states".

European Institute for the Media
"The European Institute for the Media (EIM) is a think tank for research and strategy concerning developments in European media and communications, based in Düsseldorf and Paris.
The EIM's main areas of research are the impact of convergence on the media, cross-border developments in the media and their role in the process of European integration; the public interest aspects of (new) media developments and the growth of the Information Society".

Center on Terrorism and Irregular Warfare, US
"Established in 1998, The Center on Terrorism and Irregular Warfare produces timely, innovative, interdisciplinary analysis relevant to policy and operations. The Center's researchers study domestic and international terrorism and other forms of irregular warfare, whether waged by sub-state groups against established governments or by states against each other. In studying this asymmetric conflict, the researchers emphasize the effect on this conflict of the information and communication revolutions.

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Other

Article 19
"Named after Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, we work worldwide to combat censorship by promoting freedom of expression and access to official information".

Media Workers Against War
"The best global source on the web for anti-war news, views and updates on the international peace movement - updated daily".

Human Rights Watch
"Human Rights Watch is dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world.
We stand with victims and activists to prevent discrimination, to uphold political freedom, to protect people from inhumane conduct in wartime, and to bring offenders to justice. We investigate and expose human rights violations and hold abusers accountable. We challenge governments and those who hold power to end abusive practices and respect international human rights law. We enlist the public and the international community to support the cause of human rights for all."

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