Project: "Media cooperation and peace journalism in the South Caucasus"
The project "Media cooperation and peace journalism in the South Caucasus" aims to contribute towards a peace-enabling environment in the societies of the South Caucasus by strengthening the skills and capacities of regional media representatives. To achieve this outcome, we are working with journalists from all regions of the South Caucasus to strengthen networking, cooperation, and information exchange between media professionals and to further build their capacities with regard to peace-oriented and conflict-sensitive journalism. The project is financed by COBERM – Confidence Building and Early Response Mechanism, funded by the European Union and administered by the United Nations Development Program, and the Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation Projects of the German Marshall Fund. It is implemented by ICCN in cooperation with the European Centre for Minority Issues – Caucasus. |
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From 12-17 September 2011, a group of twenty journalists from Abkhazia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and South Ossetia traveled to Famagusta in Northern Cyprus for a five-day workshop on conflict-sensitive journalism. The training was facilitated by international trainers Skip Isaacs and Onnik Krikorian.
Subsequent to the workshop on conflict-sensitive journalism in Northern Cyprus, ICCN and ECMI co-organized a follow-up roundtable in Tbilisi on 12 October 2011 with the participation of the project donors from the COBERM/UNDP team and the German Marshall Fund’s Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation, local civil society organizations, media professionals, and representatives of the international community in Georgia.
On 15-17 April 2011, ICCN and ECMI gathered the focal points from the South Caucasus regions in Ankara for the official kick-off event of the project "Media cooperation and peace journalism in the South Caucasus."
