Public lecture: Community Radio, Conflict and Peacebuilding in the Sahel; Speakers: Lassané Yaméogo & Viviane Schönbächler

Abstract:

This lecture explores the roles played by community radio stations in times of security crisis, using the concepts of fragility, resilience and reciprocity. Through a qualitative approach, we examine how the crisis fragilizes community radio stations in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso and their relationships with the “communities”. As an inherently reciprocal medium, community radios and their “communities” are profoundly interlinked and mutually dependent. Our research demonstrates how the security crisis impacts this relationship and how the “communities” and the radio stations develop a co-resilience. 

Lassané Yaméogo holds a PhD in Information and Communication Sciences from the Free University of Brussels (ULB) in Belgium. He is a senior lecturer at the Institute of Social Sciences at the National Center for Scientific and Technological Research (CNRST) in Burkina Faso. He also teaches Journalism at the Joseph Ki-Zerbo University in Burkina Faso and at the Superior School of Journalism (ESJ Lille) in France. He is an associate researcher at the Free University of Brussels, where he is a member of the Information and Communication Research Center (ReSIC) and the Laboratory of Journalistic Practices and Identities (LaPIJ). Lassané YAMÉOGO’s research interests include the interrelations between media and social dynamics, especially media and conflict, peacebuilding, gender, and migration/mobility.

Viviane Schönbächler is a postdoctoral researcher specialising in the intersections of media, conflict, gender, and digital security. She holds a PhD in Media Studies from Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) in Germany and has a background in international relations and peace and conflict studies.  Her expertise includes research and practice in the Near East and West Africa in the fields of humanitarian assistance, peace, and conflict transformation.

This lecture is open to the public.

For virtual participation via Zoom, please use the following link:

https://uni-freiburg.zoom-x.de/j/63192659143?pwd=YppaR390QMgJNYoRwGiySGiSAtCeVa.1

Meeting-ID: 631 9265 9143
Code: Lv4yEk6VR