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ROBERT I. ROTBERG THOMAS G. WEISS Editors     From MASSACRES to GENOCIDE   The Media, Public Policy, and Humanitarian Crises     THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION Washington, D.C. THE WORLD PEACE FOUNDATION Cambridge, Massachusetts   Contents         Preface v Introduction 1 Robert I. Rotberg and Thomas G. Weiss Part One——Capitalizing on Technology and Sustaining Media Attention Communications, Policy-Making, and Humanitarian Crises 15 Fred H. Cate Reporting Humanitarianism: Are the New Electronic Media Making a Difference? 45 Edward R. Girardet Suffering in Silence: Media Coverage of War and Famine in the Sudan 68 Steven Livingston Part Two——Building Greater Humanitarian Capacity Big Problems, Small Print: A Guide to the Complexity of Humanitarian Emergencies and the Media 93 Peter Shiras Emergency Response as Morality Play: The Media, the Relief Agencies, and the Need for Capacity Building 115 John C. Hammock and Joel R. Charny The Media and the Refugee 136 Lionel Rosenblatt Part Three——Improving U.S. Policy Illusions of Influence: The CNN Effect in Complex Emergencies 149 Andrew Natsios Human Rights and Humanitarian Crises: Policy—Making and the Media 169 John Shattuck Part Four——Conclusions Coping with the New World Disorder: The Media, Humanitarians, and Policy-Makers 179 Robert I. Rotberg and Thomas G. Weiss About the Authors 190 About the Sponsoring Institutions 194 Index 197