Humanitarian Crises and Intervention: Reassessing the Impact of Mass Media. Walter C. Soderlund, E. Donald Briggs, Kai Hildebrandt, and Abdel Salam Sidahmed. Sterling, VA: Kumarian Press, 2008. 380 pp.
In Humanitarian Crises and Intervention: Reassessing the Impact of Mass Media, Walter C. Soderlund and his colleagues in political science and communication at the University of Windsor—E. Donald Briggs, Kai Hildebrandt, and Abdel Salam Sidahmed — systematically analyze ten humanitarian crises, most in Africa, that occurred during the 1990s. The authors, political science and communication professors at the University of Windsor in Canada, provide unique insight into mass media’s role in supporting intervention during human crises.