Biba Klomp
10-01-2009, 08:11 AM
From 20 to 23 September, members of the ENJN (Euromed) were active in a series of media-related events in Stockholm. On Monday, 21 September, Carmen Sammut and Paul Gillespie were part of the speaker panel at the Anna Lindh Foundation forum Restoring trust - Rebuilding bridges, looking at media aspects of post-conflict programmes. Carmen spoke of the diverging media narratives on migration found in countries where migrants originate and those that they move to, while Paul offered the ENJN experience of cross-cultural media dialogue as a model for better general understanding and cooperation between countries. The audience for the forum included ENJN (Euromed) Task Force colleagues and Swedish and international representatives from civil society.
The forum was one of a series of presentations during the day to mark the International Day of Peace, with speakers including representatives from the Swedish EU presidency, the Stockholm International Peace Institute and Anna Lindh Foundation President Andre Azoulay. A special press event was addressed by former UN Peace Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi.
On the following day Shahira El Rafei and Jamal Eddine Naji took time out from lunch during Task Force meetings to be interviewed by Swedish radio for a programme on Arab society reactions to western actions in Iraq and Afghanistan. At the end of the meetings on Tuesday, Teresa Carreras presented her Mataro Radio programme from Stockholm via a live link to the studio in Barcelona. She interviewed colleagues Randa Achmawi, Jan Keulen and Giulio Pecora on North-South relations, their work with the ENJN and their expectations of progress in Middle East peace. The show also featured pre-recorded interviews with Anna Lindh Foundation Director Andreu Claret and with representatives of NGO Combatants for Peace, who had been presented on the previous day with an Anna Lindh Award for their contribution to dialogue between cultures.
The ENJN (Euromed) Task Force continued its own work in a series of meetings from Sunday to Wednesday. They included discussions on the Media Rapid Response Mechanism being developed in cooperation with the UN Alliance of Civilisations, planning for a media freedom event to be held in Morocco, examination of the potential for further work on the reporting of terrorism and input to the planning of the ALF Forum in Barcelona in March 2010.
The forum was one of a series of presentations during the day to mark the International Day of Peace, with speakers including representatives from the Swedish EU presidency, the Stockholm International Peace Institute and Anna Lindh Foundation President Andre Azoulay. A special press event was addressed by former UN Peace Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi.
On the following day Shahira El Rafei and Jamal Eddine Naji took time out from lunch during Task Force meetings to be interviewed by Swedish radio for a programme on Arab society reactions to western actions in Iraq and Afghanistan. At the end of the meetings on Tuesday, Teresa Carreras presented her Mataro Radio programme from Stockholm via a live link to the studio in Barcelona. She interviewed colleagues Randa Achmawi, Jan Keulen and Giulio Pecora on North-South relations, their work with the ENJN and their expectations of progress in Middle East peace. The show also featured pre-recorded interviews with Anna Lindh Foundation Director Andreu Claret and with representatives of NGO Combatants for Peace, who had been presented on the previous day with an Anna Lindh Award for their contribution to dialogue between cultures.
The ENJN (Euromed) Task Force continued its own work in a series of meetings from Sunday to Wednesday. They included discussions on the Media Rapid Response Mechanism being developed in cooperation with the UN Alliance of Civilisations, planning for a media freedom event to be held in Morocco, examination of the potential for further work on the reporting of terrorism and input to the planning of the ALF Forum in Barcelona in March 2010.