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Media & Conflict

The ‘Media and Conflict’ programme seeks to develop a critical dialogue from within the media of the media as a political actor in shaping and regulating social and political conflicts and affirms its responsibility to expose abuse of authority and violations of human rights and democracy. It seeks to foster the possibility of exploring shared regional perspectives and defining a common future oriented towards a peoples security and rights framework. The media programme addresses a particular constituency - media practitioners reporting on conflicts in the region. It recognises the mass media’s role in mediating the public sphere and thus its responsibility in upholding democratic value. The Media programme is designed to sensitize media practitioners reporting conflicts by facilitating a peer group radical critique of media practices, inset within the political economy of the media as industry and news as a product. The programme is particularly timely in view of the growing power of the media industry in South Asia and the need for media practitioners to be more self aware of the journalist as a significant political actor. The media has often been accused of exacerbating conflicts, could the media be a tool for advocacy of human rights and peace? SAFHR’s media programme addresses these issues.

Programme Activities span research, publications, regional dialogues and Skills & Training Workshops

PROGRAMMES

• Orientation Course

• Peace Audits

• Women & Peace

• Refugee

• Minority

• Media

• Campaigns

• Kashmir

• Nepal