Posts tagged with "bjoerneser"



A new peacebuilding podcast season starts today. This time, it's all about conflict sensitive journalism.
22. November 2023
The countdown is on. Only one week to go before season three of The Peacebuilding Practitioner podcast will be launched. A season packed with amazing interviews shedding light on a still developing aspect of our work that is both an immensely exciting and hope-inspiring force for good as well as a scary and potentially very destructive force layering additional complexity to conflict situations.

Publications to better understand the situation in Ukraine (picture courtesy of Yurii Khomitskyi).
08. July 2023
Today marks the 500th day of the invasion of Ukraine. 500 days of war by the armed forces of the Russian Federation and various armed (supposedly) non-state actors against the people of Ukraine. The war has 'wrought a devastating toll on civilians and shattered civilian life in much of the country', reports Human Rights Watch in its World Report 2023. 'Russian forces have committed apparent war crimes and crimes against humanity, including torture, summary executions, and enforced...

A new peacebuilding podcast season starts today. This time, it's all about conflict sensitive journalism.
19. April 2023
Today is the launch date for Season 2 of The Peacebuilding Practitioner podcast. Season 2 is all about conflict sensitivity. And as you can expect from this resource page cum podcast, the show is packed with hands-on advice, tested tools and frameworks, and explained through a range of concrete examples from an experiences practitioner.

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14. May 2021
In our short series on Conflict Sensitive Journalism we first looked at the origins of new journalistic models for covering conflict and compared their approaches and reasoning. In the second and third article we took a closer look at the practical implementation of these ideas and the tools Conflict Sensitive Journalism proposes to journalists covering conflict. Now in this final article I will take a step back again and look at journalism through the lens of democracy and peacebuilding,...

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13. May 2021
The first part of our Conflict Sensitive Journalism (CSJ) Toolbox focused on practical and technical elements that distinguish CSJ from traditional conflict reporting. This second part will look at those elements that represent principles behind those tools. All tools are no use as long as journalists don't review the fundamental assumptions that drive their reporting. Let's look at the next set of principles through this lens and go back to some very basic questions: for whom do we make news...

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12. May 2021
In the first post of this short series we took a look at the origins of Conflict Sensitive Journalism and how the concept relates to peace journalism and other approaches to reporting on conflict, crisis and war. In this second post we will explore what Conflict Sensitive Journalism requires in practice. What is it that reporters and editors do differently when they choose to report in a conflict sensitive way - and how does this shift in perspective impact on the conflict situation and its...

11. May 2021
Wile our last mini series focused on lobby and advocacy as a powerful tool to strengthen your peacebuilding work, today’s post is the first in a series of articles looking at journalism and its role in conflict settings.

Dr. Cordula Reimann im Gespräch mit Björn Eser
20. December 2020
Sind Sie ungerne alleine? Sind Sie öfters einsam und leiden darunter? Egal ob ein klares Ja oder Nein: Ich lade Sie zu einem Perspektivwechsel ein. Dieses Buch ermutigt Sie darin, Alleinsein und Einsamkeit als wichtige Lebensbegleiter zu sehen und sich darauf einzulassen. Werten Sie Alleinsein und Einsamkeit als wichtige Lebensprinzipien für sich auf. Ob in oder ausserhalb von Liebesbeziehungen, im Kontext von Freundschaften und Familien: Jeder Mensch sollte sich dieser Erfahrung bewusst...

17. September 2020
After having made the case for a strategic lobby and advocacy campaign in part I of this mini series, I walked your through the main steps of any successful campaign in part II. With these two steps safely under out belt, it is now time to look at practical ideas. This week’s post features a wide range of possible activities to be used during your campaign. A treasure chest filled with hands-on advice and plenty of background information.

16. September 2020
In last week’s article I build an argument for lobby and advocacy campaigns to increase the changes of peacebuilding projects to be successful. But not everything that comes dressed as a campaign is a campaign. In order to develop its full potential and lend significant weight to your work, a lobby and advocacy campaign needs to be done right.

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