2. Twenty years after the end of the Soviet Union, the South
Caucasus countries can no longer be considered ‘in
transition.’ Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia have built
functioning sovereign states. But many questions remain
about how well they are faring […]
THE SOUTH CAUCASUS 20 YEARS AFTER INDEPENDENCE
THOMAS DE WAAL, CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE
HTTP://CARNEGIEENDOWMENT.ORG/2011/11/28/SOUTH-CAUCASUS-20-YEARS-AFTER-
INDEPENDENCE/6NRL?RELOADFLAG=1
THE SOUTH CAUCASUS
6. THE MEDIA
DATA:
CAUCASUS
RESEARCH RESOURCE
CENTERS (CRRC)
How wellTV journalists inform the population (%) CB 2012
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Georgia 12%
7%
8%
4%
8%
11%
8%
9%
19%
49%
28%
42%
21%
33%
16%
6%
14%
4%
Very well Quite well In the middle Quite poorly Very poorly Don't know
12. Anyone who believes that all citizen media are objective
and impar tial is either mad or hasn't actually read any
citizen media. […] What's become very difficult is
using citizen media to understand what's actually
happening on the ground. […] This sor t of situation
can get even more complicated when there aren't
impar tial journalists on the ground.
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN
http://www.eng.kavkaz-uzel.ru/ar ticles/13149/
RUSSIA-GEORGIA WAR
13. ANOTHER ALTERNATIVE?
In the 21st century, media has begun to affect war
more than ever before. Digital media technologies
[...] have increased communication and
information dissemination in conflict settings [...].
These new tools can be used to foment violence or to
foster peace, and it is possible to build communication
systems that encourage dialogue and nonviolent
political solutions.
!
DIGITAL MEDIA IN CONFLICT PRONE SOCIETIES
http://cima.ned.org/publications/research-reports/digital-media-conflict-prone-societies
17. We hear far too little of what I call this “third narrative” of
the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict, a narrative of peace. It
spins the idea that the two people are capable of getting
along fine, have lived together in the past and, if politicians
are able to overcome differences […], can live together in
the future. International mediators are too times to speak
this narrative or feel that is not their business. The media in
both countries suppresses it.
CAUCASUS CONFLICT VOICES, MAY 2011
THOMAS DE WAAL, CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE
!
HTTP://PEACE.ONEWORLD.AM/CONFLICT_VOICES_MAY_2011.HTML
ALTERNATIVE NARRATIVES
20. A CYBER UTOPIA?
I study the ways new media shapes people's
perceptions of the world. It's my fond hope that social
networks such as Facebook will help users broaden
their perspectives by listening to a different set of
people than they encounter in their daily life. But I
fear services such as Facebook may be turning us
into imaginary cosmopolitans.
!
CNN, DOES FACEBOOK UNITE OR DIVIDE US?
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/08/03/zuckerman.facebook.global/
21. A CYBER UTOPIA?
The reason why the KGB wants you to join Facebook
is because it allows them to learn more about you
from afar. It allows them to identify certain social
graphs and social connections between activists.
Many of these relationships are now self-disclosed by
activists by joining various groups.
!
EVGENY MOROZOV, THE NET DELUSION: DARK SIDE OF INTERNET FREEDOM
http://www.rferl.org/content/interview_morozov_internet_democracy_promotion/ 2284105.html
22. CYBER REALISM
[...] the internet is not magic; it is a tool. Anyone
who wants to use it to bring nations closer together
has to show initiative, and be ready to travel physically
as well as vir tually. As with the telegraph before it—
also hailed as a tool of peace — the internet does
nothing on its own.
!
THE ECONOMIST, A CYBER-HOUSE DIVIDED
http://www.economist.com/node/16943885?stor y_id=16943885
![Twenty years after the end of the Soviet Union, the South
Caucasus countries can no longer be considered ‘in
transition.’ Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia have built
functioning sovereign states. But many questions remain
about how well they are faring […]
THE SOUTH CAUCASUS 20 YEARS AFTER INDEPENDENCE
THOMAS DE WAAL, CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE
HTTP://CARNEGIEENDOWMENT.ORG/2011/11/28/SOUTH-CAUCASUS-20-YEARS-AFTER-
INDEPENDENCE/6NRL?RELOADFLAG=1
THE SOUTH CAUCASUS](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)