Preparatory Meeting
Palais du Luxembourg, Paris
Friday 20th and Saturday 21st April 2001

Full Program

Thursday, 19 April 2001
14:00	Travelling participants check into their hotels (guaranteed check-in time is 14:00, earlier may be possible by request on arrival)
18:00-20:00	Welcome drink at bistro “Les Gaufres”, upstairs from Fontaine de Médicis in the Jardin du Luxembourg near the boulevard Saint-Michel and rue Soufflot. Dress: casual. Note: 5-10 minutes from your hotel on foot

Friday, 20 April 2001
08:15 - 09:00	Registration (arrive at Senate security between 8:15 and 8:30 a.m.). Meeting starts promptly at 9 a.m.
09:00 - 09:30	Welcome and Introductory Remarks University for Peace Rector Martin Lees and Institute Director Keith Spicer welcome guests and brief them on the University for Peace and the Media and Peace Institute (MPI).
09:30 -10:15	Keynote speech I: Do the Media Have a ‘Duty of Intervention’? (Bernard Kouchner, French Minister of Health, Former United Nations Governor of Kosovo). Questions.
10:15 – 10:45	Keynote speech II: War, Media and the Minds of Men (Mark Thompson, Director of Balkan Programs, International Crisis Group, author of Forging War). Comments and questions.
10:45 – 11:00	Break
11:00 - 11:45	Agenda Item 1: Panel 1: Media, Conflict and Peace Process: Middle East: Israeli and Arab media roles: Amira Hass (Palestinian Affairs correspondent, of Ha’aretz); Hazem Saghiyeh (editor of Tayyarat (‘Trends’), weekly political supplement of El-Hayat, London); Chairman: Jim Bittermann (CNN).
11:45 – 12:30	Agenda Item I: Panel 2: Media, Conflict and Religion: Kashmir and the subcontinent media: N.Ram (editor-in-chief, The Hindu, Madras); Owais Aslam Ali (editor, Independent News Service, Pakistan), Mark Brayne (BBC World Service); Chairman: Hisanori Isomura (President, Maison de la Culture du Japon, Paris; former correspondent and CEO of NHK).
12:30 – 13:00	Pre-lunch debate: Can the Media Serve Peace as Well as Truth? If so, How? Principles, methods, realistic expectations. Annabel McGoldrick (professional media trainer: Caucasus and Indonesia) and Paddy Sherman (former president of Southam Newspapers, Canada). Chairman: Henri Pigeat (former CEO of Agence France Presse).
13:00 -14:00	Lunch (Salle René Coty, Palais du Luxembourg).
14:00 – 14:30	Laptop-video presentation: Web Wars: The New Battleground for Political Conflict and Journalism (Julian Sher, JournalismNet)
14:30 - 15:30	Panel: Media, Terror and Civil War in Latin America: Francisco Santos, editor-in-chief, El Tiempo, Bogota); Pedro Meléndez (TV executive, Bogota); Alejandra Lajous (recently retired CEO of Canal 11, Public TV in México City); Stephen Hugh-Jones (senior editor, The Economist). Chairwoman: Deborah Berlinck (O Globo, Brazil).
15:30 -15:45	Break
15:45 –16:15	Agenda Item 2 a) Panel on Training Experiences: methods, resources, materials, marketing: Reviewing the state of the art: Training), Jake Lynch (ITN, UK); Timothy Balding (World Association of Newspapers). Chairman: Robert Stéphane (former CEO of Belgian French State TV network and former board chairman of Open Broadcast Network, Sarajevo).
16:15 – 17:00	Agenda Item 2 b): Panel on Training Needs in relation to war and peace and peacekeeping operations (non-academic). Comments and suggestions on previously circulated MPI plans: Annabel McGoldrick (professional media trainer, Indonesia, Caucasus); Julian Sher (JournalismNet); Gilles Kraemer (Centre de Formation et de Perfectionnement des Journalistes, Paris); Chairwoman: Jenny Ranson (UK Cabinet Office, former CEO of Open Broadcast Network, Sarajevo).
17:00 – 18:00	Case Study: Western Media Reform Efforts: Balkan Successes and Follies (Simon Haselock, former OSCE media chief and now Kosovo Media Commissioner; Sjtepan Malovic (dean of international journalism, University of Zagreb). Jenny Ranson (former CEO, Open Broadcast Network, Sarajevo). Chairman: Mark Thompson, Director of Balkan Programs, International Crisis Group)
18:00 –	Adjournment of today’s formal session.
19:30 – 21:30	Dinner-discussion with special speaker: Galina Arapova (Director, Media Defense Center, Russia): What’s Happening to the Russian Media? Chou-Chen Restaurant, 3 rue de Cluny (see directions in Practical Arrangements paper). Also: Raise basic issue of value, niche and approach of MPI.

Saturday, 21 April 2001
08:30 – 09:00	Pass Senate security between 8:15 and 8:30 a.m.
09:00 - 09:45	Overview: History, Ethnicity and Media in Africa Fred M’Membe (editor of The Post, Zambia); Ruth Teer-Tomaselli (professor in Graduate Programme in Cultural and Media Studies, University of Natal, Durban); Clyde Sanger (The Economist); Chairman: Kifle Béséat-Sélassié (director of Fonds International pour la Culture; former editor-in-chief of Addis-Soir;).
09:45 - 10:30	Agenda Item 3: Panel on research needs and resources: Dimitri Panitza (Chairman, Free and Democratic Bulgaria Foundation, former managing editor of Reader’s Digest); Norman Webster (president, R.Howard Webster Foundation, Montreal; former editor-in-chief of the The Globe and Mail, Toronto and The Gazette, Montreal). Godfrey Hodgson (chairman, Reuters Foundation, Oxford University); Andrew Puddephatt (Executive Director, Article 19, London). Chairman: Jeff Cole (Director, Center for Communication Policy, UCLA.
10:30 - 10:45	Break
10:45 – 12:15	Agenda Item 4: Panel on academic education stream (M.A. and short courses at graduate level). Needs, goals, curriculum, standards, hiring, recruitment, resources: Jan Jirak (dean of mass-media studies, Charles University in Prague); Ruth Teer-Tomaselli (University of Natal, Durban), Pat Thompson (professor of broadcast journalism, American University of Paris, former network news producer); Sjtepan Malovic (Dean of School of International Journalism, University of Zagreb); Chairman: Rosental Alves (professor in international journalism, University of Texas, former executive editor of Jornal do Brasil).
12:15 – 13:00	Agenda Item 5: Round-up: Summary of key arguments; final comments and suggestions from entire group. Chairman: Keith Spicer.
13:00	Adjournment of formal public meeting