Madariaga - College of Europe Foundation

13:00 - Thursday, 2 April 2009

The Workshop, organised by the Madariaga - College of Europe Foundation and the Folke Bernadotte Academy, with the support of the Czech Presidency and in close cooperation with the General Secretariat of the Council of the EU, the European Commission, the European Peacebuilding Liaison Office (EPLO), and the Bonn Network,  aims at exploring the possibilities to better integrate media activity within the EU's conflict prevention strategies.  

Concept note           Programme        Report

As a follow-up a Dialogue Forum was organised on 3 April at the Permanent Representation of the Czech Republic to the EU. 

Should you request  further information, please do not hesitate to contact Maddalena Malgarini at the address This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it   

The Search For Common Ground opinion paper written by Bernardo Monzani with the support of EU-ISS is now available on EU-ISS website - direct link

Speakers' contributions:

- Jelena Gakovic, ERNO Network - power point

- Alain Modoux, ITC4 Peace - power point

- Andrew Stroehlein, International Crisis Group - link to the article "An Overview to Media Development and Post-Conflict Transition"

- Friedhelm Frischenschlager, Member of the Board of the Radio Television of Kosovo (RTK) - power point

- Chris Plutte, Country Director, Search for Common Ground, Rwanda - power point

- Adelheid Feilcke-Tiemann, Director of International Relations, Deutsche Welle - presentation

-  Simon Derry, Regional Director, BBC World Service Trust - presentation and policy briefing on "The unmet need for information in humanitarian response"

Partner Forthcoming Event, 3-5 June 2009

This international will bring together media users and producers, peace building-and conflict prevention-specialists, representatives from the fields of media technology and security, public relations, the military, the arms industry as well as members of government and political parties to network and discuss the challenges and solutions for the future.

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