Latest Updates
- RNW DG proposes centre to combat hate media (5 June 2008)
- Replacing Hate with Hope in Kenya (part 1) (31 Jan 2008)
- Replacing Hate with Hope in Kenya (part 2) (31 Jan 2008)
This dossier is in the process of being updated, and it will be relaunched under the new name Counteracting Hate Media, to include TV, the Internet and other new platforms now being used by the purveyors of hate.
Some people believe that Hate Radio is a phenomenon that started and ended in the mid-90’s, notably in the Great Lakes region of Africa around Burundi and Rwanda. This dossier shows that hate radio continues to be a constant danger. Hate radio killed more than 800,000 people in the last decade. Its influence should not be ignored.
Is it right for a foreign organisation to interfere with the internal media of another country? In certain circumstances, it is not only legimate, it is essential. In times of crisis, when people are only exposed to politically explosive "hate radio", the media can kill at levels beyond belief!
Regional conflicts and civil wars, with their appalling consequences in the form of human rights abuse, genocide and “ethnic cleansing”, have become the principal threat to international order since the end of the Cold War. They have caused the deaths of millions and forced frequent international military interventions, costly in both human and financial terms. Nowadays, more often than ever in the past, the media, particularly the electronic media, are instrumental in setting off and sustaining these wars and conflicts. In spite of this, media intervention does not belong yet to the established set of tools used for the prevention or resolution of conflicts, or in peace-keeping operations, unlike military or humanitarian interventions. This is probably due to the fact that media intervention tends to come as a reaction to crises rather than as an instrument to pre-empt or prevent them. It also poses a number of difficult issues and even contradictions according to the forms it takes. The latter need to be tackled if media intervention is to become the effective tool it ought to be.
What’s in This Dossier:
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Introductory Pages
- The Dilemma of Definitions
- Reacting to Hate Radio
- Commentary: Defining hate
- Commentary: Crossing the line
Hate Radio Survey
- Burundi
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Ivory Coast
- Rwanda
- Other Parts of Africa & Middle East
- North America and the Caribbean
- Europe
- UK
- Asia
"Peace" Radio Survey
- Burundi
- Central African Republic
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Liberia
- Rwanda
- Sierra Leone
- Tanzania
- Elsewhere in Africa
- Independent "Peace" Radio Other Parts of the World
- UN agencies & International Broadcasters supporting peace-keeping operations
- Recent Initiatives by International Broadcasters
- Credits
Tags: Hate, media, Radio, Rwanda