TY - CHAP
T1 - Risk and Crisis Communication in Small States: Mauritius, Qatar, and Maldives
AU - Moloney, Kimberly Erika
AU - Guittard, Alexander
PY - 2021/12
Y1 - 2021/12
N2 - This paper seeks to narrow gaps between the small states and crisis communication literature by engaging three crises in three different small states: Mauritius and the Chagos Archipelago dispute, Qatar and its COVID-19 response, and foreign terrorist fighters from The Maldives. Using the integrated risk and crisis communication model proposed by Rogers and Steeger (2005), we find centralized and clear communication from Qatar on COVID-19, similarly clear communication from Mauritius on Chagos legal questions but less so on the plight of Chagossian refugees in Mauritius, and initially avoidant crisis communication from the Maldives Government before a partial reconsideration of its importance a few years later.
AB - This paper seeks to narrow gaps between the small states and crisis communication literature by engaging three crises in three different small states: Mauritius and the Chagos Archipelago dispute, Qatar and its COVID-19 response, and foreign terrorist fighters from The Maldives. Using the integrated risk and crisis communication model proposed by Rogers and Steeger (2005), we find centralized and clear communication from Qatar on COVID-19, similarly clear communication from Mauritius on Chagos legal questions but less so on the plight of Chagossian refugees in Mauritius, and initially avoidant crisis communication from the Maldives Government before a partial reconsideration of its importance a few years later.
U2 - 10.5339/informing_action.9789927155338
DO - 10.5339/informing_action.9789927155338
M3 - Chapter
T3 - Informing Action: Higher Education Institutions Countering Violent Extremism …
BT - Informing Action: Higher Education Institutions Countering Violent Extremism
ER -