IMS assessment mission: The Rwanda media experience from the genocide, 2003
31.03.2003
"In November 2002, in response to rising concerns for the safety of journalists and the overall degradation of the situation in Ivory Coast, Media Action International (MAI), in collaboration with the International Federation of Journalists, International Media Support (IMS) and Communication Assistance Foundation, organized a seminar near Abidjan entitled "Journalism and conflict" to enable journalists to face the challenges of reporting during conflicts, highlighting basic journalist professional standards and their application during conflict situation. The forty journalists and editors who participated in the seminar expressed the wish to continue to work on the question of ethics to improve relations with their colleagues. At the beginning of 2003, MAI was asked to implement a second workshop in Ivory Coast addressing the role media are playing in the current crisis and the way media could contribute to a peaceful solution of the conflict in the country. One way to achieve the objective will be through increasing awareness of the Rwandan media experience during the 1994-genocide and the consequence of partisan-media...."
"In November 2002, in response to rising concerns for the safety of journalists and the overall degradation of the situation in Ivory Coast, Media Action International (MAI), in collaboration with the International Federation of Journalists, International Media Support (IMS) and Communication Assistance Foundation, organized a seminar near Abidjan entitled "Journalism and conflict" to enable journalists to face the challenges of reporting during conflicts, highlighting basic journalist professional standards and their application during conflict situation. The forty journalists and editors who participated in the seminar expressed the wish to continue to work on the question of ethics to improve relations with their colleagues. At the beginning of 2003, MAI was asked to implement a second workshop in Ivory Coast addressing the role media are playing in the current crisis and the way media could contribute to a peaceful solution of the conflict in the country. One way to achieve the objective will be through increasing awareness of the Rwandan media experience during the 1994-genocide and the consequence of partisan-media...."
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