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Abstract / Summary

The Responsibility to Protect, the report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS), focused on three international responsibilities in the area of human security: the responsibility to prevent, the responsibility to react, and the responsibility to rebuild. The report acknowledged the difficulty of identifying countries likely to experience widespread civil violence and then predicting when this would occur. But the authors of this book submit that if ever a case of a “responsibly to prevent” was possible to anticipate, South Sudan was it.A Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) ended the Sudanese second civil war in 2005 with a call for a referendum to be held in South Sudan in 2011 to determine the region’s future, In the event, an overwhelming majority voted for independence for the region. The question that motivated this book is whether the CPA would set in motion a process resulting in yet another brutal conflict, and, if that conflict was widely predicted, what should be the response of the international community in terms of “responsibility to prevent”?Mass media coverage has been identified as an important factor in mobilizing the international community into action in crisis and potential crisis situations; however, the impact of media reporting on actual decision-making is unclear. Thirty-plus years of research has demonstrated consistent agenda-setting effects, while a more recent stream of research has confirmed significant framing effects, the latter most likely to occur in cases where advocacy framing is used. This book examines the way in which the press in Canada and the United States interpreted the potential for violence that accompanied South Sudan’s independence in 2011, and whether or not their governments had a responsibility to prevent.

Field of Interest

Politics & Current Affairs

Author

E. Donald Briggs, Walter E. Soderlund

Copyright Message

Copyright © 2014 Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Content Type

Book

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0 sec

Warning: Contains explicit content

No

Format

Text

Page Count

183

Publication Year

2014

Publisher

Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Place Published / Released

Waterloo, ON

Subject

Politics & Current Affairs, Global Issues, Social Sciences, Public Administration and Policy, International Political Science, International Humanitarian Law, Sudan and its Borders, Public opinion, Politics & Policy, Regulamentos e Administração Pública, Administración y Política Pública, Ciência Política Internacional, Ciencia Política Internacional, Derecho Humanitario Internacional, Legislação Humanitária Internacional, Sudão, Sudan, Independence Movements, International Response, Border Disputes

Keywords and Translated Subjects

Regulamentos e Administração Pública, Administración y Política Pública, Ciência Política Internacional, Ciencia Política Internacional, Derecho Humanitario Internacional, Legislação Humanitária Internacional, Sudão