Product Description: What impact do mass media portrayals of atrocities have on activism? Media, Mobilization and Human Rights challenges the assumption that exposure to human rights violations in countries far away causes people to respond with activism to end atrocities...read more

Product Description: "Truth telling is always important but never more so than when a country undergoes a transition. Getting to the truth challenges myths, half-truths, denials, and lies. When the silence is broken, it offers the opportunity for new beginnings...read more

Product Description: This study explores the roles played by two religious groups in the anti-apartheid movement - the South African Council of Churches and the South African Catholic Bishops' Conference. It shows how they adopted new self-identities which resulted in an expansion of their activities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)