[Bilimsel Haber] Conf: Peace Journalism Conference, Nov 9-10 Cyprus

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PROGRAM
Thursday, November 9, 2006 (Location: Famagusta, Faculty of Communication
and Media Studies, Green Hall)

10:00 - 10:30 Registration

10:30 - 11:00 Opening Ceremony

11:00 - 12.00 Keynote Speaker:
DOV SHINAR "Peace Journalism: The state of the art"

Discussant: SUSAN DENTE-ROSS

12:15 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 15:30 Plenary Session I: Current Theoretical and Practical Issues
in Peace Journalism

Chair: ALEXIS HERAKLIDES

Panelists:
Zelia Gregoriou, "Peace and Agamben"
Mashoed Bailie, "The devil's in the details: Peace Journalism
in the context of a Critical Media Studies"
S�leyman Irvan, "Peace Journalism as a normative theory:
premises and obstacles"


15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break

16:30 - 18:00 Plenary Session II: Current theoretical and practical
issues in Peace Journalism

Chair: DOGAN TILI�

Panelists:
Herculles Millas, "A silenced aspect of the professional journalist:
His/her identity",
Anat First, "Feminism and Peace Journalism"
Sevda Alankus , "Writing for peace without the words for peace:
Reflection on Prace Journalism through Turkish Cypriot Print media"
Nadire Mater, "Peace Journalism: We don't even know the name yet?"

19:00 - 21:00 Dinner


Friday, November 10, 2006 (Location: Fulbright Commission, Buffer Zone,
Nicosia)

09:30 - 11.30 Session III: Problems and Experiences of Peace Journalism
in Cyprus

Chair: HERCULES MILLAS

Panelists:
Andreas Panayiotou "The bias of media forms and prospects
for Peace Journalism"
Bekir Azgin, Mashoed Bailie "Building peace on a mediated
reality? Cypriot media and the resolution of conflict"
Zenon Stavrinides, "The presentation of Cyprus Problem in
the Greek Cypriot Media".
Sevg�l Uludag, "Oral history as a tool of Peace Journalism:
notes of a journalist from the field"

Discussants:

Alekkos Konstantinides, Daphnos Economou, H�seyin G�rsan, Hasan Kahvecioglu, Murat Kanatli, Tony Angastiniotis.

11.30-13.00 Lunch


13.00-15.00 Session IV: Problems and Experiences of Peace Journalism
in Cyprus

Chair: SEMIH IDIZ

Panelists:
Maria Avraamidou "Covering human rights stories and racial events:
Implications of good journalism"
Metin Ersoy, "Obstacles to Peace Journalism in North Cyprus"
Daphnos Economou, "Peace Journalism vs parochialism:
The contribution of Cyprus to Bush's "War Against Terror"
Alkan Muhtaroglu, "The possibility of creating a peace culture
in Cyprus:Annan Plan, Referendum and Peace Journalism"
Discussants:
Sener Levent, Basaran D�zg�n, Phaedon Vasiliades, Cenk Mutluyakali,
Zelia Gregoriou


15:00 - 15:15 Coffee Break


15:15 - 17:00 Session V: Problems and Experiences of Peace Journalism in
the Middle East Region

Chair: DOV SHINAR Panelists:

Carol Daniel Kasbari "Examination of Peace Journalism in Israel and
the OPT (Occupied Palestinian Territory): Challenges and Opportunities"
Lea Mandelzis "Framing the 2003 Iraqi threat in the Israeli news discourse"
Hisham Abdallah "Reporting in no war no peace situation: the experience
of the Palestinian Autonomous Era"
Nidal Foqaha "The role of the Palestinian media in the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict"
Mary Totry, "What was the role of the media in the Oslo Process?"

Discussants:

Shimon Malka, Maysa Baransi-Siniora, Dalia Liran-Alper, Mete �ubuk�u,
Walid Omari, Sevg�l Uludag

17:00 - 17:15 Coffee Break

17:15 - 19:00 Session VI: Problems and Experiences of Peace Journalism
in Greece and Turkey

Chair: BEKIR AZGIN

Panelists: Alexis Heraklides "The main obstacle to Greek Peace Journalism:
Ethnocentrism and national narrative",
Dogan Tili�, "Greece as 'the other'" and the state-biased reflection of
Greece-related issues in Turkish papers.",
Michael Mitsos, "'Another slap in the face for Turkey': When cliches make
easy, but cheap journalism.
Ferai Tin�, "Can journalists have political missions? If not how can
we define Peace Journalism? A case study of Turkish and Greek women
from a journalist's point of view.

Discussants:
Semih Idiz, Stelyo Berberakis, Mete �ubuk�u

19:30 - 21:30 Dinner and concert by the bi-communal Chorus of Cyprus.

CYPRUS

Panelists:

* Maria Avraamidou, Researcher, mariaavraamidou at hotmail.com

* Bekir Azgin, Eastern Mediterranean University, bekir.azgin at emu.edu.tr

* Mashoed Bailie, Eastern Mediterranean Univ., mashoed.bailie at emu.edu.tr

* Daphnos Economou, Anatropi, daphnos at hotmail.com

* Metin Ersoy, Eastern Mediterranean University, metin.ersoy at emu.edu.tr

* Zelia Gregoriou, University of Cyprus, gregoriou at ucy.ac.cy

* Alkan Muhtaroglu, Eastern Mediterranean Univ., alkan.muhtaroglu at emu.edu.tr

* Andreas Panayiotou, Frederick Institute of Technology, p.andreas at cytanet.com.cy

* Zenon Stavrinides, University of Leeds, z.stavrinides at lineone.net

* Sevg�l Uludag, Yenid�zen, sevgul_uludag at yahoo.com



Discussants:

* Tony Angastiniotis, Eastern Mediterranean Univ., tony.angastiniotis at emu.edu.tr

* Basaran D�zg�n, Kibris Gazetesi, basaran at kibrisgazetesi.com

* H�seyin G�rsan, BRT, huseyin.gursan at brtk.net


* Hasan Kahvecioglu, Radyo Mayis, hasankahvecioglu at yahoo.com

* Murat Kanatli, Yeni �ag, muratkanatli at yahoo.com

* Alekkos Konstantinidis, Alitia.

* Sener Levent, Afrika, senerlevent at yahoo.com

* Cenk Mutluyakali,Yenid�zen, cenkvirus at superonline.com

* Sami �zuslu, Yenid�zen, Sim FM, ozuslu at europe.com

* Phaedon Vassiliades phavas at spidernet.com.cy


ISRAEL

Panelists:

* Dov Shinar, Netanya Academic College, Netanya, shinard at barak.net.il

* Anat First, Dean, School of Communication, Netanya Academic College,
d_first at netvision.net.il

* Lea Mandelzis, Sapir Academic College. mandelzis at hotmail.com

Discussants:

* Shimon Malka, Israeli co-director of Radio All for Peace,
liloo at zahav.net.il

* Dalia Liran-Alper , College of Management Tel Aviv, Beit Berl College,
Kfar Saba, liranalper at gmail.com

ISRAELI PALESTINIANS* AND PALESTINE**

Panelists:

* Mary Totry, Haifa University*, totrym1 at yahoo.com

* Hisham Abdallah, Journalist, Ramallah**, hishamsurda at yahoo.com

* Nidal Foqaha - Geneva Initiative activist** , nfoquha at hotmail.com

Discussant:

* Maysa Baransi-Siniora, Palestinian Co-director of Radio All for Peace **
maysa at allforpeace.org


COLLABORATING INSTITUTIONS

* TODA Institute of Global Peace Policy and Research, Peace Journalism
Group and Netanya Academic College, Center for Research of War and Peace
Coverage.

* Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.

* The Management Center of the Mediterranean, Nicosia.


SPONSORING INSTITUTIONS

* US Embassy, Cyprus

* EVKAF Administration

* Gazimagusa Municipality

* Cyprus Turkish Airlines

* Kyrenia Municipality