Peace on the Small Screen: UNPROFOR's Television Unit in 1994-5 and the 'Media War' in Former Yugoslavia
Peace on the Small Screen: UNPROFOR's Television Unit in 1994-5 and the 'Media War' in Former Yugoslavia
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小屏幕上的和平：1994年5月的联保部队电视台和前南斯拉夫的“媒体战争”
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10.1080/01439685.2021.1948205
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2021
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1994年初至克罗地亚和波斯尼亚-黑塞哥维那战争结束期间，为联合国前南斯拉夫维持和平使命工作的一组记者（联保部队）负责一项独特的电视实验--一个名为UNTV的纪录片部门，该部门将制作300多部关于重建、流离失所与和平的电影，将在与整个区域的地方和国家广播公司商定的定期时段播出。这些影片与联合国维和行动的传统公共信息产出不同，旨在挑战后南斯拉夫国家广播公司在不同程度上采用的民族主义偏见，并成为急需的有关前线其他方面情况的可靠信息来源。虽然在南斯拉夫战争期间，联合国电视台的存在在电视和其他媒体的文献中几乎没有记录，但联合国电视台的文件和电影中的档案证据揭示了该项目是如何以及为什么开始的，对冲突动态的解释往往更接近于该地区独立反战记者而不是反政府组织指挥部。然而，当这一承诺与一些后南斯拉夫国家广播公司的政治化意识形态发生冲突时，所造成的紧张局势表明了这种干预前南斯拉夫所谓的“媒体战争”的企图的局限性。
Between early 1994 and the end of the wars in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, a team of journalists working for the United Nations peacekeeping mission in former Yugoslavia (UNPROFOR) was in charge of a unique televisual experiment – a documentary film unit known as UNTV, which would produce more than 300 films about reconstruction, displacement and peace, to be broadcast on regular slots agreed with local and national broadcasters throughout the region. Departing from UN peacekeeping’s conventional public information output, these films aimed to challenge the ethnonationalist biases that post-Yugoslav state broadcasters employed to varying degrees, and to become a much-needed source of reliable information about conditions on other sides of the front lines. Though UNTV’s existence is hardly registered in the literature on television and other media during the Yugoslav wars, archival evidence from UNTV’s documents and films casts light on how and why the project began, with interpretations of the dynamics of the conflict which were often closer to those of independent anti-war journalists in the region than UNPROFOR command. The tensions that resulted when this commitment clashed with the politicised ideologies of some post-Yugoslav state broadcasters nevertheless show the limits of this attempt to intervene in former Yugoslavia’s so-called ‘media war’.