4th October 2005

Media representations of War and Conflict.

A workshop organized on March 18, 2005 by the KUB-Center Communication for
Social Change, the Communications Department of the Vesalius College (VUB)
and the Pascal Decroos Foundation for Investigative Journalism.
Carpentier, Nico, Terzis, George (eds.)

The 'Media representations of war and conflict' workshop had the ambition
to bring together European scholars working on media, war and conflict, and
a small group of Belgian journalists. This joining of intellectual forces
led to a series of interesting presentations and discussions on how to
break through the media's vicious cycle of enthusiasm and fascination,
frustration, remorse and excuses, followed by the formulation of new good
intentions for the next war or conflict. Our main objective was to create a
dialogue between academics, activists and media professionals, which would
facilitate mutual learning and which would start a process of reflection on
media theories and practices in relation to war, aimed at improving the
future representations of war and conflict.

The following people attended the workshop (in alphabetical order): Nico
Carpentier (KUB/VUB), Ides Debruyne (Pascal Decroos Foundation), Eran
Fraenkel (Search for a Common Ground), Jake Lynch (University of Sydney &
Reporting the World), Jean-Paul Marthoz (Human rights Watch), Evita Neefs
(De Standaard), Rune Ottosen (Oslo College), George Terzis (Vesalius
College), Mireille Thornton (LSE) and Flip Voets (Flemish Press Council).

The transcription of this workshop, which took place at the KUB on March
18, 2005, is available here

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