Analysing Low Intensity Conflict in Africa using Press Reports

Philippe Bocquier and Hervé Maupeu
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Hervé Maupeu: Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour

European Journal of Population, 2005, vol. 21, issue 2, No 10, 345 pages

Abstract: Abstract In the absence of reliable and unbiased sources in most African countries, press reports can serve to evaluate some specific causes of death, on condition that a political analysis of the relation between the press and the political power is conducted. Tested on data collected from a leading Kenyan newspaper, the method proposed here is used to conduct a historical and geographical analysis of deaths due to police violence, community clashes and banditry. It also helps to point out the discrepancies between the press discourses on insecurity and political violence, and the reality of deaths reported by the very same press.

Keywords: Africa; collective violence; homicides; human rights; insecurity; Kenya; low intensity conflict; political violence; Afrique; conflit latent; droits de l’homme; homicides; insécurité; Kenya; violence collective; violence politique (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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