Reporting Genocide: Media, Mass Violence and Human Rights

by David Patrick

Book Overview

The Western world's responses to genocide have been slow, unwieldly and sometimes unfit for purpose. So argues David Patrick in this essential new contribution to the aid and intervention debate. While the UK and US have historically been committed to the ideals of human rights, freedom and equality, their actual material reactions are more usually dictated by geopolitical 'noise', pre-conceived ideas of worth and the media attention-spans of individual...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350248150
• ISBN13: 9781350248151
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"