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Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum 2008, 2-4 June, 2008, Bonn, Germany

Sunday, 1 June 2008
 

Optional: Tours & Sightseeing (registration necessary)

Pre-registration in conference hotels (information forthcoming)

Monday, 2 June 2008
10:00 a.m.  Registration
11:00 a.m. 

Opening ceremony (Plenary Chamber)

Opening Address: Erik Bettermann, Director General, Deutsche Welle

Welcome Address: Andreas Krautscheid, Minister for Federal Affairs, Europe and Media of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia

Keynote Speech: Dr. Shirin Ebadi, Lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Iran

12:00 a.m. 

1st Session (Plenary Chamber)
Worldwide deployment- What can and must Europe do to prevent conflicts?

Keynotes:
Georg Boomgaarden, State Secretary of the Federal Foreign Office

David Astley, Secretary-General Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU), Kuala Lumpur

Moderation: Christoph Lanz, Managing Director DW-TV, Berlin

01:00 p.m.  Lunch
02:30 p.m.  2nd Session (Plenary Chamber)

Crisis prevention via media intervention

Panel:
Erlends Calabuig, Vice President for Strategy, Radio France Internationale

Stephen King, Director, BBC World Service Trust

Jan Hoek, Director General, Radio Netherlands Worldwide

Danforth W. Austin, Director, Voice of America

Armen Oganesyan, Director General, Voice of Russia

Aref Hijjawi, Programme Director, Al Jazeera Arabic Channel


Moderation: Uta Thofern, Editor-in-Chief DW-WORLD.DE

04:00 p.m. 
Coffee break

Opening of the International Photo Exhibition "Child Soldiers - Forced to be cruel" (Rhinelobby behind Plenary Chamber)
04:30 p.m. 
3rd Session (Plenary Chamber)

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Economic development, political stability and the role of the media in Asia

Introductory remarks:
Dr. Frank Appel, Chairman of the Board, Deutsche Post World Net

Panel: 
Dr. Indrajit Banerjee, Secretary General, AMIC/Singapore

Sucharita Eashwar, Regional Director Nasscom, Bangalore, India

Prof. Dr. Drew McDaniel, Director, Southeast Asia Studies Program, College of Communication, Ohio University, USA

Vincent Brossel, Reporter without Borders, Paris

Moderation:
Cheche L. Lazaro, President, Probe Productions, Inc., Philippines

06:00 p.m. 
Closing (1st day)

06:30 p.m.  Reception
(hosted by Deutsche Welle)
Tuesday, 3 June 2008
09:00 a.m.  Registration
10:00 a.m. 

4th Session (Plenary Chamber)
How can the truth survive? In Africa journalists are often caught between the battle lines 

Panel:

Claudia Anthony, UN Radio, Sierra Leone

Apollonaire Malu Malu, Chairperson of the Independent Electoral Commission, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Delphine Djiraibé, Lawyer, National Coordinator of the Peace and Reconciliation Committee, Chad

Itai Mushekwe, former political reporter of the Zimbabwe Independent, currently Cologne, Germany

Rose Kimotho, Managing Director, Kameme - 101.1 FM, Kenya

Moderation:
Christopher Springate, free-lance journalist, reporter / presenter, DW-TV

  Parallel events
10:00 a.m. 
Symposium (location: Wasserwerk, behind Plenary Chamber - Special Event)
Journalistic training in conflict-related situations
(whole day event, hosted by DW Academy)
10:00 a.m. 

Parallel workshop (location: Pumpenhaus)
The German Armed Forces and their engagement in conflict prevention: the media in a mission of the armed forces?
Workshop hosted by:  Academy for Information and Communication of the German Armed Forces

11:30 a.m.  Coffee break
12:00 a.m. 
5th Session (Plenary Chamber)
Reading Between the Lies - Perception and Prejudice in the Middle East

Panel:
Jacky Sutton, Media Projects Manager, UNDP-Iraq, Amman Office

Salameh B. Nematt, ex-bureau chief of Al Hayat, journalist

Raed Othman, General Director of the Ma'an Network

David Witzthum, Moderator and Chief Editor, Israel Television (TV Channel 1), lecturer on history and media studies at the Hebrew and Tel Aviv Universities

Victor Kocher, Editor, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Switzerland

Moderation: Melinda Crane, Host, DW-TV

01:30 p.m.  Lunch
03:00 p.m. 
Parallel workshops:

(subject to change)

06:00 p.m.  Closing (2nd day)
06:30 p.m. 
Boat trip & Dinner
(sponsored by DHL)
Wednesday, 4 June 2008
09:00 a.m.  Registration
10:00 a.m.  6th Session (Plenary Chamber)

The Use of TV and Radio in Peacebuilding: Concrete Examples (Multimedia Presentation) 

John Marks, President, and Susan Collin Marks, Senior Vice President, Search for Common Ground

The AoC Rapid Response Media Mechanism (RRMM)

Emmanuel Kattan,  Communications Director, United Nations - Alliance of Civilizations

Citizen-State Relations? Expectations - Trust: Introducing the Public Sphere Concept into the State-Building Debate

Henriette von Kaltenborn-Stachau, The World Bank,  Communication for Governance and Accountability Program (CommGAP)

UN experiences in the area of radio/media projects in conflict areas and sustainability

Susanne Frueh, Chief, External Relations, Peacebuilding Support Office, United Nations


 

12:00 a.m.  Closing ceremony (Plenary Chamber)

Final statements
01:00 p.m.  Lunch reception hosted by the City of Bonn
02:00 p.m.  Departure of participants
 

Optional: Tours & Sightseeing (registration necessary)


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Tuesday, 3 June 2008 (Symposium)
09:00 a.m.   Registration
10:00 a.m. 

Opening Adress: Gerda Meuer, Director, DW-Akademie

1st Session - Opportunities through education

Keynotes:

Simon Derry, Regional director for Middle East, Europe and Former Soviet Union, BBC World Service Trust

Eberhard Sucker, Journalist and trainer, DW-Akademie
                                                                 
Panel:

Dr. Shah Jehan Sayed, Department of Journalism and Media,  University of Peshawar, Pakistan

Abubakar B. Jijiwa, Director General, Voice of Nigeria, Nigeria

10:45 a.m.  

2nd Session - Quality Journalism

Journalistic training in conflict-related settings: challenges, trends and strategies

Keynote:

Dr. Abdul Waheed Khan, UNESCO, Paris, France

Prof. Dr. Drew McDaniel, Director, Southeast Asia Studies Program, College of Communication, Ohio University, USA

Kayeromi D. Gomez, President, Center for International Media Ethics - CIME Inc., USA

Moderation:

Matthias von Hein, Editor in Chief, Chinese Program, DW radio

11:30 a.m.   Coffee break
12:00 a.m. 

3rd Session - Quality Journalism

Journalistic training in conflict-related settings: challenges, dangers and limits

Keynote:
Gavin Rees, Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma Europe

Panel:

Anja Wollenberg,  Head of MICT Berlin, Germany

Reach Sambath, press officer ECCC, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Astrid Kohl, Head of InWEnt's International Institute for Journalism

Min Bahadur Shahi, President, Association of Community Radio Broadcasters Nepal

Moderation:

Dr. Andrea Rübenacker, Head Africa Division, DW-Akademie

12:45 a.m. 

4th Session - Bonn Network

Enabling rapid action in conflict situations

Panel:

Jean Réveillon, Director General EBU, Grand-Saconnex, Switzerland

Dr. Bent Norby Bonde, Director, Media Progress

Erling Dessau, Special Advisor to the Humanitarian Futures Programme, Kings College, London                                 

Moderation:

Adelheid Feilcke-Tiemann, Head of International Affairs, DW

01:30 p.m.  Lunch
03:00 p.m.  
5th Session - Media Diversity

Training for a digital world

Keynote:
Dr. Javad Mottaghi,  Director, AIBD, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Panel:

Matthias Spielkamp, journalist and trainer, Berlin, Germany

Chido Makunike, journalist, African web entrepreneur and online writer,  Zimbabwe/Senegal

Jotman,  „Best of Blogs"

Premesh Chandran, CEO malaysiakini, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Staffan Sonning, Swedish Radio Media Development Office


Moderation:
Daniel Hirschler, journalist and trainer, DW-Akademie

MOC:
Kateri Jochum, journalist and producer, DW

05:00 p.m. - 06:00 p.m 

6th Session - Impact on Peace and Conflict: What journalists and peacebuilding practitioners need to know about it

Panel:

Victoria McColm, Program Specialist "Media & Conflict Program" (Centers of Innovation), United States Institute of Peace, Washington D.C.

Vladimir Bratic, Assistant Professor, Communication Studies, Hollins University (VA), USA


All-day event hosted by Deutsche Welle Academy, supported and sponsored by the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia.