RT Article
T1 Framing victims and perpetrators: local and international reporting on the International Criminal Courtcase against Dominic Ongwen
JF Media, war & conflict
VO 00
SP 1
OP 19
A1 Trisko-Darden, Jessica 1984-
A1 Steflja, Izabela
A1 Wintersieck, Amanda
A2 Steflja, Izabela
A2 Wintersieck, Amanda
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1932206949
AB Building on research on victims and perpetrators of political violence and their depiction in the media, this article highlights the conceptual and practical challenge of specifying the process by which individuals acquire a morally ambiguous or ‘complex’ status in conflict. The authors conduct a content analysis of English-language print reporting on Dominic Ongwen’s International Criminal Court case and ambiguous status as a child soldier and victim–perpetrator. They identify important variation in how different news media frame the processes through which an individual becomes a victim–perpetrator and how these depictions relate to understandings of agency as well as transitional justice and post-conflict societal transformations. The article presents a framework for understanding how individuals are seen as ‘turning’ from one category of conflict-affected individual to another category as depicted in the news media.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 15-18
K1 Dominic Ongwen
K1 International Criminal Court
K1 Lord’sResistance Army
K1 Child soldiers
K1 complex perpetrators
K1 Media framing
DO 10.1177/17506352241312086