Winter -Spring Seminar Schedule 2006 for UPEACE Institute for Media, Peace and Security

The Institute for Media, Peace and Security of the University for Peace is organizing three two-day Seminars in Geneva, Switzerland (download poster) with top media experts on the following topics:

Media, Conflict Prevention & Peacebuilding - January 24-25, 2006
Intensive introduction to the study of interactions between media, conflict, peace and security. Frontline case studies, using TV news clips, documentaries and articles, help participants draw practical lessons and test theories of media in wartime. DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS 16 December 2005.

Jim Bittermann is CNN's senior European correspondent. For CNN he covered NATO air strikes on Kosovo in 1998 and many of the decade's major international stories in Eastern Europe, Northern and Western Africa. He won a national news Emmy Award for his coverage of the 1988 Sudan famine.

John Owen is a long-time journalist and national TV news editor who currently is a visiting professor of journalism at City University, London. He is also executive producer of NewsXchange, the international broadcast conference group underwritten by the European Broadcasting Union. He is also first chair of the Frontline Club Forum.

Media Challenges in UN Peacekeeping - March 7-8, 2006
Viewing UN peacekeeping from headquarters and the field, this course illustrates vividly the problems of both
media and peacekeepers, and shows how reporting deeply affects outcomes. Participants acquire new tools
to plan and/or assess such UN missions. DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS 13 February 2006.

Dr. Ingrid Lehmann was a Director of the UN Department of Public Information in Vienna from 1991-2003. She previously served on the political staff of two UN peacekeeping missions. Her book, Peacekeeping and
Public Information - Caught in the Crossfire, is a standard work in this field.

Media and Genocide: Rwanda & Bosnia - April 5-6, 2006
Piercing, ground-breaking analysis of how ethnic rivalries, scheming politicians and manipulated media caused the most appalling genocides since World War II. The seminar also dissects how world media, plus Western electoral concerns, allowed mass murder to happen. DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS 15 March 2006.

Dr. Gerald Caplan - Author of Rwanda: The Preventable Genocide, report of the International Panel of Eminent Persons to Investigate the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, named by the Organization of African Unity, now the African Union. He founded Remembering Rwanda and teaches a course on the genocide to Rwandans in Rwanda.

Dr. Nel Ruigrok - Assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam, specializing in international media issues. Co-author of a report on Dutch media and the Srebrenica massacre (Dutch UN troops were to protect the UN “safe haven” in Srebrenica.) Author of the book: Journalism of Attachment: Dutch Newspapers During the Bosnian War.

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Why attend? To understand how media in conflict situations influence policy and on-the-ground decisions.

Who should attend? Anyone dealing with, or working in, the media before, during or after conflict.

What will you learn? Principles, complexities and lessons of landmark events where media significantly shaped conflict or peace.

Admission: Please complete and send the application form to University for Peace, Ms.Sophie Hemne at [email protected] . Click here to download the application form or visit www.mediapeace.org for further details.

Fees: CHF 500/seminar (includes lunch and learning
materials).

Special offer: Sign up for more than one course and get a 10% reduction on the total price.