Africa's Deadliest Conflict: Media Coverage of the Humanitarian Disaster in the Congo and the United Nations Response, 1997-2008

by Walter C. Soderlund, E. Donald Briggs, Tom Pierre Najem

Book Overview

Africa's Deadliest Conflict deals with the complex intersection of the legacy of post-colonial history--a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions--and changing norms of international intervention associated with the idea of human security and the responsibility to protect (R2P). It attempts to explain why, despite a softening of norms related to the sanctity of state sovereignty, the international community dealt so ineffectively with a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1554588359
• ISBN13: 9781554588350
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"