United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: MEDIA, POLICY & ADVOCACY IN HUMANITARIAN ACTION

Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Organization: Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Registration deadline: 31 Mar 2017
Starting date: 03 Apr 2017
Ending date: 13 Apr 2017

http://www.lstmed.ac.uk/study/courses/media-policy-advocacy-in-humanitarian-action

3 good reasons to study

1. This exciting course examines the relationship between media and political power, and ensures that you will never again view the media, including social media, in the same way.
   
2. You will have the opportunity to practice filmed media presentations under the guidance of a leading humanitarian field expert.
3. By regularly conveying information to important audiences, from the general public to government and international decision makers, the media plays a large role in shaping public debate.

This course aims to provide students with knowledge and critical understanding of political debates regarding Western humanitarianism and issues pertaining to media and aid delivery, policy and advocacy.

Learning Outcomes

• Discuss the politics of aid delivery and humanitarian action
  
• Discuss practical issues pertaining to media management during humanitarian responses
  
• Critically review the theories of media-state relations and the factors that affect media coverage of humanitarian crises
  
• Discuss the geopolitics of humanitarian action
  

Course Outline

• Realist and Liberal perspectives on humanitarian intervention.
• Media and war
• Rwandan Genocide
• Humanitarian crisis and US intervention in Afghanistan and Iraq; dealing with humanitarian crisis during wars of national interest.
• Politics and Media Power relations including manufacturing consent, indexing, and political contest media
• Aljazeera
• Fox News
• Media-state-aid agency interactions
• Empathy, distance, superficiality, negativity and ethnocentric framing of developing country crises
• Media and foreign policy: the CNN effect, types of media effect and scope of media impact
• The limits of the CNN effect and humanitarian action including conflict prevention, and post-conflict peace building
• Media management during humanitarian crises
• Advocacy strategies

How to register:

Applications are online through our website - http://www.lstmed.ac.uk/study/courses/media-policy-advocacy-in-humanitarian-action

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