This book takes a holistic approach by capturing the various perspectives and viewpoints concerning the theory and practice of Human Rights Journalism. Thirdly, it proposes a Human Rights Journalism-Responsibility to Protect conceptual model, which illustrates how an embedded human rights focussed media strategy can be designed.
Senthan Selvarajah is Co-Director of the Centre for Media, Human Rights and Peacebuilding based in the UK. Dr. Selvarajah has over 20 years of experience as a journalist, researcher, consultant and academic, and currently serves as the Convener of the Media, Conflicts, and Journalism Commission of the International Peace Research Association.
1. Introduction: Understanding Human Rights Journalism and Its Nexus to Responsibility to Protect.- 2. The Failings of Conventional War Journalism.- 3. Human Rights Journalism: Tracing Its Epistemological Foundation.- 4. Exploring the links between Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and Human Rights Journalism (HRJ).- 5. Analysing feature detection of media representations via Framing Matrix and Multimodal Discourse Analysis Matrix.- 6. Accessibility Effect of the Agenda Setting of the Humanitarian Crisis of Sri Lanka.- 7. Applicability Effect of the Agenda Setting of the Humanitarian Crisis of Sri Lanka.- 8. Exploring the Impact of the Applicability Effect of the Humanitarian Crisis in Sri Lanka in the International Press.- 9. Journalists Speak Up on Their Reporting of the Crisis in Sri Lanka.- 10. Conclusion: Theory and Practice of Human Rights Journalism.