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Key Considerations • 15Table 3 presents examples of practicalmedia-oriented peacebuilding initiativesarranged by types of media initiative and bystages of conflict. Descriptions of eachproject are given below. These examplespartially reflect the considerable diversity ofinnovative approaches and individualprograms which were identified in the courseof preparing this framework. More areemerging every day.TABLE 3. Examples of peacebuilding initiativesPre-conflict Hot conflict Post-conflictTypes Oneand Two:conventionaljournalismdevelopmentType Three:transitional mediadevelopmentTypes Fourand Five:transformationalprogramming1. Philippine investigativejournalism.2. IREX: East Europeanrudimentary training.3. Open Society Institute:Central-East Europeantraining.4. Internews: Tajikistantraining10. Media Action International:conflict sensitization.11. Conflict and PeaceForum: roles analysis andsensitization.12. CECORE: roles analysis,training.20. Search for CommonGround: Macedonianchildren’s programming.13. Studio Ijambo, Burundi:conflict resolution, antihatemedia.14. South Asian EditorsForum: reconciliationsensitization.15. Role sensitization (see #4).21. Media Action International:Balkans humanitarian andnews programming.22. Search for CommonGround: Liberia reconciliationprogramming.23. Reporters Sans Frontieres:Rwanda anti-hate radio.24. War Child: Bosnianchildren’s reconciliation.25. BBC World Service:Afghanistan humanitarianprogramming.5. IMPACS Cambodiajournalists’ trainingproject.6. IREX: East Europeanprofessional training andinfrastructure.7. Balkans: lessons learned.8. Reseau Liberte:rudimentary-toresponsibletraining.9. OSCE Mission Kosovo:journalism regulationand training.16. Alliance for Peace,Philippines: training.17. Peace JournalismTraining, Indonesia:training, sensitization.18. Radio Blue Sky, Kosovo:humanitarian news,ethnicities’ dialogue.19. Internews Reporting forPeace, Indonesia:training, sensitization.26. UNTAC Radio: UNCambodian democracyprogramming.27. Internews: Rwanda trialscoverage for reconciliation.28. Media Peace Centre:South African peacebuildingmedia.29. Childrens’ advocacy –Tajikistan (see #4).
16 • AN OPERATIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR MEDIA AND PEACEBUILDING1. The Philippine Centre for InvestigativeJournalism (www.pcij.org) is anindependent, not-for-profit media agencywhich produces and provides, at cost, indepthinvestigative reports to the local andnational media, and provides fellowshipsto reporters, which would otherwise not beavailable due to financial or politicalconstraints. Accuracy and balance areprimary concerns, to reduce opportunitiesfor suppression.2,6. IREX’s Promedia Program(www.promedia.org) combines training,technical assistance, equipment grants andother aid to independent media in tenCentral and Eastern European states to helpthem improve their performance againststate-sponsored media and compared toWestern media. The focus is on businessperformance, media law, professionalstandards and institutional support.3. Open Society Institute Network MediaProgram (www.osi.hu/nmp) is a not-forprofitconsultant, resource, liaison andpartner for Soros-sponsored mediaprograms and other media initiatives inCentral and Eastern Europe. The primaryfocus is assisting the establishment ofenvironments for development of free,independent accountable media, includingmedia legislation, media freedommonitoring, and professionalism ofjournalists and managers.4, 15, 29. Internews Central Asia(www.internews.org) works with localnongovernmental organizations in anenvironment of prolonged low-intensityconflict in the Ferghana Valley of Tajikistanto provide a media spectrum-wideprogram which includes basic journalismtraining, advocacy for a supportive mediainfrastructure, conflict-sensitizedjournalism, and intended outcome youthorientedradio programming.5. IMPACS Cambodia Journalists’ TrainingProject (www.impacs.org) since 1998has strengthened democracy in Cambodiaby assisting in the development of moreindependent, open and accountable radiojournalism in the highly subjective andfractious media environment there. Thetraining program focuses on radio, whichis the only country-wide news medium buthas no tradition of trained practitioners.7. A Bosnia-Herzogovina assistanceprogram launched in 1996 by internationalorganizations to rapidly create a diverseindependent media industry, to counterstate propaganda and to educate, enhancedemocracy and empower audiences. Itproduced an artificial donor-dependentindustry of poor journalistic skills that wasuncompetitive with popular ethnocentricgovernment outlets. Unrealistic timelines,a lack of localized “ownership” of theinitiatives, and unattractive programmingproduced modest or minimal contributionsto democratization.8. Reseau Liberte (reseauliberte@videotron.ca) is a Canadian programwhich provides media training from basicreporting to investigative and documentarywork, through advancing levels ofsophistication for repeat trainees. It hasdelivered programs in Kosovo, Vietnamand African countries.9. Department of Media Affairs, OSCEMission in Kosovo (www.osce.org/kosovo/media/index.htm). An internationalorganization assisting the creation ofconditions for free media in Kosovo andBosnia, it temporarily regulates and licenselocal media and with local advisors isdeveloping laws and standards for themedia. It also provides training, technicalassistance and inter-agency coordination.
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