A Comparative Media Analysis of the Darfur Conflict

• Main Author: Månsson, Jens
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper 2014
• Subjects: Sustainable Development; Darfur; Media; Climate Conflict; Media Bias; Elites
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-230566

This thesis explores how media has reported on the Darfur conflict as a climate conflict. For that purpose a media analysis has been carried out that analyses quantitative data through four different cases from different parts of the world. In order to get this data a quantitative content analysis has been carried out. The analysis has been carried out by using a media policy framework that enables the data to be classified in three different categories depending on the level of elite consensus and policy uncertainty on the matter at hand. This thesis concludes that media around the world have been reporting on climate change as a contributing factor depending on how that argument can be used to serve their geo-strategic policy on the conflict. In that sense climate change is mainly brought up as a way to relieve the Sudanese government of its responsibility in the conflict.