Biba Klomp
10-15-2008, 02:38 PM
Maghrebi team looks into where Lebanon goes now, and what help the EU is giving.
Flying in from across North Africa, our Maghrebi team of reporters landed in Beirut last week for the opening session of their ENJN training.
Looking into conflict resolution efforts in Lebanon the team of 22 reporters met with major players wrestling with how to put the country onto the road to recovery following years of political instability and war.
The team interviewed a broad range of guests including:
- MI6’s man involved in the Oslo negotiations and current Director of Conflict Forum Alastair Crooke - whose views on engaging political Islam have often proved highly controversial.
- Patrick Laurent, EU Ambassador whose focus on reconstructing the shattered Lebanese economy has earned praise in the region.
- UK Ambassador Frances Guy.
- Jihad Azour – former Lebanese Minster of Finance highly involved in post 2006 war reconstruction.
- Lebanese conflicts specialist Professor Walid Ramez Arbid of the Lebanese University.
The week also saw our journalists from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Lebanon gain rare access inside the HQ of UN peacekeepers on the tense Lebanese - Israeli border and inside the Nahr el Bared Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon shattered after weeks of fighting between Islamic militants and Lebanese forces in 2007.
All 22 reporters produced pieces with the help of Thomson Foundation consultants and local crews, which most are about to publish or air across the region. To view their work, please click here (http://training.journalismnetwork.eu/group/beyrouth/forum).
Flying in from across North Africa, our Maghrebi team of reporters landed in Beirut last week for the opening session of their ENJN training.
Looking into conflict resolution efforts in Lebanon the team of 22 reporters met with major players wrestling with how to put the country onto the road to recovery following years of political instability and war.
The team interviewed a broad range of guests including:
- MI6’s man involved in the Oslo negotiations and current Director of Conflict Forum Alastair Crooke - whose views on engaging political Islam have often proved highly controversial.
- Patrick Laurent, EU Ambassador whose focus on reconstructing the shattered Lebanese economy has earned praise in the region.
- UK Ambassador Frances Guy.
- Jihad Azour – former Lebanese Minster of Finance highly involved in post 2006 war reconstruction.
- Lebanese conflicts specialist Professor Walid Ramez Arbid of the Lebanese University.
The week also saw our journalists from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Lebanon gain rare access inside the HQ of UN peacekeepers on the tense Lebanese - Israeli border and inside the Nahr el Bared Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon shattered after weeks of fighting between Islamic militants and Lebanese forces in 2007.
All 22 reporters produced pieces with the help of Thomson Foundation consultants and local crews, which most are about to publish or air across the region. To view their work, please click here (http://training.journalismnetwork.eu/group/beyrouth/forum).