The emotion and the truth

Studies in mass communication and conflict

Mariano Aguirre

Francisco Ferrándiz

Diciembre 2002

This is a book about modern wars in fragile states, one of the most important issues in the international system, and how the media, the academic and non-governmental organisations understand, act towards, interact among them and provide knowledge about their armed conflicts.

This is the second volume of a series on Conflict and the Media, based on the presentations and debates that took place in the framework of international seminars.

The current volume gathers the communications presented by academics, journalists and representatives of NGOs meeting in Amsterdam, the Netherlands (19-22 April 2001) improve ways of understanding modern wars in order to cooperate among the three sectors (academia, journalism and NGOs), and to explore means of collaboration in the international community and in the democratic industrial societies to find ways for peace and just development in the affected societies.

The seminar was organised by the Peace Group of HumanitarianNet (Thematic Network on Humanitarian Development Studies). For the preparation of both, the seminar and the book, TNI and the Peace Research Center (CIP) of the Fundación Hogar del Empleado, Madrid, played a very important role.

The second volume Before Emergency was published in December 2003.

Publisher:

HumanitarianNet/University of Deusto, Bilbao

Mariano Aguirre

Director del Centro Noruego para la Construcción de la Paz (Noref)

Mariano Aguirre es un periodista y analista especializado en cuestiones como construcción de la paz, crisis del Estado, acción humanitaria, conflicto y desarrollo y recuperación posconflicto.

Antes de trabajar en el Centro Noruego para la Construcción de la Paz, Mariano fue director del programa sobre paz, seguridad y derechos humanos de la Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior (FRIDE).

Mariano es autor, colaborador y editor de numerosos libros, entre los que cabría destacar La ideología neoimperial: la crisis de EEUU con Irak (Icaria/TNI/CIP, 2003), co-escrito con Phyllis Bennis y "Humanitarian intervention & us hegemony: a reconceptualization", en Achin Vanaik (Ed.), Selling US Wars, Interlink publishing / Transnational Institute (2007).