ABSTRACT
This chapter explores that whether media attention to human rights influences the intensity of civil conflicts. It also explores how human rights promotion by the international media has offsetting effects that in ways can help resolve exacerbate domestic conflict. The chapter shows attention to human rights violations in the context of civil contexts can have both pacifying and perverse effects on such conflicts. It highlights abuse and violation of rights in the media may deter combatants and/or governments from striking a peace deal in the prospect of future legal prosecution. The measure of media naming and shaming of human rights violations comes from a new dataset of design that codes extensive information on the reporting of human rights violations in the New York Times and in periodic United Nations mission reports. The chapter considers the baseline models the influence of monthly and country dummies and this are negative binomial regression models, because our dependent variable(s) is a highly dispersed count.
