We’re once again plugging a course from our Summer Professional Training Program in Peacebuilding & Development. These courses are interactive, practical, skills-based training courses in areas like conflict resolution, negotiation, international development, monitoring & evaluation, and program design, covering topics like religion, youth, gender, and media. Practitioners, professionals, scholars, and students participate in these professional development training courses with colleagues from all over the world

We want to highlight especially the Media & Peacebuilding course this week. The Details?

Date: Monday, June 16 – Friday, June 20, 2008

Location: American University, Washington, DC

Instructor: Ross Howard

Course Description:

Recognizing the destructive role media have played in many conflicts such as in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, and holding in mind the potential of free and independent media for fostering a desired peace, NGOs are realizing the crucial role that media play in peacebuilding. This course will address the various concepts of media and peacebuilding and focus on media assistance in conflict regions, mainly in a short- to medium-term perspective. It aims to present a clear picture on the concepts; provide an overview of the strategies applied by different actors; and highlight the actual trends and future challenges.

About the Instructor:

Ross Howard is a consultant in journalism and media capacity-building. His work encompasses wide international experience in the field, in research and analysis and in curriculum development, and with particular reference to conflict and peacebuilding, democratization, and governance and elections. He is an award-winning professional journalist, a journalism faculty member at Langara College, Vancouver and is president of the international journalism training consortium Media&Democracy Group.

Who participates in this kind of training?

Wazhma, Director: Afghan Women’s Network
Pradip, Media Coordinator: Search for Common Ground, Nepal
Abdalsalam, teacher, Burundi
Osmond, Communications Director: Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs, Tanzania
Yasir, Senior Program Officer: National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, Iraq
Nayef, Photojournalist, Palestine

If you are interested in the Peacebuilding & Development Institute’s Summer Professional Training Program in Washington, DC this summer, please visit http://www.american.edu/sis/peacebuilding for more information.