GODABARI, NOV 05 - With the objective of informing working journalists, media trainers and educators about peace and diversity journalism, a four-day- workshop has begun here from today.
Altogether 16 participants, comprising media trainers, media educators and working journalists both from print and electronic media are participating at the workshop organised by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES).
Joergen Eric Klussmann, a peace journalism expert from Germany, media educator Ram Krishna Regmi, senior journalists Dhruba Hari Adhikari and Shrish S. Rana and Dr. Durga Pokhrel, chairman of the National Women’s Commission, are the facilitators of the workshop.
On the first day of the workshop today, media educator Ram Krishna Regmi presented a working paper on "The History of Nepalese Conflict" and German expert Joergen Eric Klussmann informed the participants about different aspects of conflict and the role of journalists to minimise the intensity of conflicts.
Outlining the history of conflict in Nepal, senior journalist Regmi said that the Maoist insurgency is linked to the 1990 movement and the constitution formulated a year later.
Alleging media of not giving due priority and failing to cover conflict-related issues right on the spot, Regmi expressed his worries that media is being used by both parties in conflict to serve their political interests.
He urged the media to be very careful while handling conflict-related issues and to ensure that news carried out by them do not trigger new kinds of violence. "Media should now be motivated to initiate conflict reporting since media has a responsibility to initiate building peace process through the flow of unbiased information," he said.
Informing the participants about conflict reporting, German expert Joergen Erik Klussmann expressed that journalists should act responsibly to minimise the intensity of the conflict
Taking part in the discussion at the workshop, Dev Raj Dahal of FES said that the country is losing its monopoly of state power needed for peace, stability, democracy and development. He remarked that the conflicting interests and behaviour of political activists are producing disjunctive discourses and causing deadlock in the macro-politics of the country.Posted on: 2003-11-04 09:08

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