The Responsibility to Protect in Darfur: The Role of Mass Media

by Abdel Salam Sidahmed, Walter C. Soderlund, Donald E. Briggs

Book Overview

Long-simmering conflict in the Sudanese region of Darfur came to a boil in the spring of 2003 and became a focus of American media attention in September 2004. After the genocide in Rwanda the international community developed a new way to deal with genocide-the "Responsibility to Protect" doctrine which legitimized intervention in case of egregious loss of human life. Despite this new doctrine, it took over five years of conflict in Darfur before...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739138073
• ISBN13: 9780739138076
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.4"