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Dealing with the Past and Transitional Justice: Creating Conditions for Peace, Human Rights and the Rule of Law

Mô Bleeker (ed.)

Bern: Federal Departement of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) (2006), 193 pp.

"[...] 1. It is fair to say that we have come a long way in recent years in developing the concepts of dealing with the past and transitional justice. We now have a good understanding of what is needed for effective transitional justice, as well as the linkages and the dynamics between judicial and ... non-judicial elements. I believe we have created a fairly well-integrated approach to transitional justice, at least in theory. At the same time we are still far from mainstreaming these concepts into the different frameworks of conflict resolution, peacebuilding, long-term development or human rights promotion. So in reality there is a gap between theory and practice, which may be even widening, and between the holistic approach in our mindsets, the implementation and strategies actually applied in the field. 2. As the head of the division at our Ministry, which runs conflict transformation programs at the same time as it deals with human rights policy, I was particularly interested in the dilemmas and conflicts of interest that we are facing in transitional justice. David Bloomfield summarized yesterday’s group discussion by saying that there is no contradiction between justice and peacebuilding, but there is a tension that is greater in the short term than in the long term. I must say I was also impressed by the International Criminal Court’s sensitivity to these issues. It may be at the end of the day when the real dilemmas are fewer than I had thought. This is basically what Juan Méndez has been saying. There are of course some real dilemmas, he argues, but there are also many false ones, and there are good approaches to reduce the real dilemmas, by offering amnesty to rebellion, by separating perpetrators from communities they claim to represent. 3. My third point is linked to the previous one: many of you have been alluding to the emerging norm or the growing recognition of a de iure prohibition of amnesties, including de facto amnesties covering gross violations of human rights, be they crimes against humanity, genocide or war crimes. This is a very interesting development. We should examine how we can reinforce this tendency, solidify these emerging norms and (this has also been said) communicate to current and potential perpetrators that this is an issue that is not up for negotiation. 4. My fourth point is on the participation of victims and how transitional justice can improve their situation. Are we really listening to the victims? Do we as external actors know enough about what type of process could satisfy them and support their needs? We have heard that truth, prosecution, reparation and institutional reforms are not sufficient if there is no political will at the level of government and if the latter does not share the healing human feelings of compassion and remorse and accompanying these feelings with concrete actions that dignify victims and make them believe in the non-repetition of violations. The lesson to be learned is that victims should be fully associated with the design and implementation of transitional justice strategies. 5. Let us recognize that transitional justice should be just that: transitional. Yesterday we were reminded that we should be careful about what we term “transitional” in order to avoid giving alibis to states that are not keen on human rights protection. So it is absolutely crucial to create national rule of law systems that work effectively, and nationally owned human rights institutions and policies. As it has been pointed out, the international community is still struggling with the need to effectively extend and support sustainable institution/capacity building." (Conclusions, pages 183-184) more

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Der Blick der Anderen: Europa in der Wahrnehmung von Medien Afrikas, Asiens und Lateinamerikas

Oliver Zöllner (ed.)

Bochum: Paragon Verlag (2006), 161 pp.

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De lo estatal a lo público. Medios: ¿de quién y para qué?

Rosa María Alfaro Moreno (ed.)

Lima: Calandria (2006), 326 pp.

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Democratization: A Central Task of Media Development Cooperation

Jörgen Klußmann (ed.)

Bonn: Evangelische Akademie im Rheinland (2006), 139 pp.

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Gender in the Information Society: Emerging Issues

Anita Gurumurthy, Parminder Jeet Singh, Anu Mundkur, Mridula Swami (eds.)

Bangkok; New Delhi: UNDP Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme (UNDP-APDIP); Elsevier (2006), xi, 142 pp.

"This publication features a series of papers that represent an early exploration of the challenges and opportunities for actors committed to gender equality in the information society. It is meant to open up the debates that can pave the way for a sustained engagement of gender activists with one o ... more

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Report of the Sensitisation Workshop on Rural Radio for Policy and Decision Makers in East and Southern Africa

Rome: FAO (2006), 86 pp.

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Assessing Opportunities for ICT to Contribute to Sustainable Development

Joanna Knast

Brussels: European Comission, Information Society and Media (2005), 35 pp.

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International Donors Policy Forum on Media Development, 13 and 14 October 2005

London: Open Society Foundation, Network Media Program; Department for International Development (DFID) (2005), 85 pp.

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Mediating Religion and Film in a Post-Secular World

Stephen Hughes, Birgit Meyer (eds.)

Postscripts, volume 1, issue 2-3 (2005), pp. 149-374

"This special issue seeks to explore the common ground shared by practices of filmmaking and religious institutions located within postcolonial settings and increasingly linked in global infrastructures. The articles presented here converge in combining theoretical reflections about the interface of ... film and religion with specific examples or historical and ethnographic cases. Written by authors with backgrounds in film studies, religious studies, and anthropology, the contributions to this multidisciplinary issue are based on two common, more or less explicit, points of departure. One concerns the realization that the actual entanglement of religion and film highlights the limitations of a modernist view proclaiming the retreat of religion from the public sphere as an inevitable consequence of the processes of modernization and secularization. In our perspective, the interface of film and religion can more fruitfully be addressed from a postsecularist perspective, which seeks to overcome the unproductive, teleological, and normative understanding that religion should be confined to the private sphere. As the contributions to this issue show, in contexts as diverse as India, Ghana, Nigeria, Brazil, and postsocialist Poland, the accessibility of modern mass media in conjunction with the politics of neo-liberalism actually facilitate the proliferation of religion in the public sphere. This implies not only that religions may assume a strong public presence, but also that religion and entertainment are increasingly difficult to distinguish from each other. For example, as Maria José de Abreu shows, the Catholic Charismatic priest, pop-singer, and film actor Marcello Rossi embodies this convergence. Not only has film become a prime medium of religious expression, films also often address a religious audience which in turn is seen to authorize audiovisual representations of the transcendent or divine as truthful and authentic. Ravi Vasudevan argues here how Hindu devotional films represented their own religious spectators as a kind of selfauthenticating redefinition of the social with the divine. Whether this authorization actually occurs, as the articles by Birgit Meyer on Ghanaian pentecostally-oriented video-films and by Matthias Krings on Hausa videos in Northern Nigeria show, is a matter of an intense politics and aesthetics of persuasion that may or may not be successful. While in our era of globalizing media the condition of the possibility for religion to assume a public role appears to depend on the successful accommodation of filmic media, the incorporation of such media also threatens to transform religious practice into a form of mass entertainment. The fear of being made subject to superficial visual regimes, as the articles by Mattijs van de Port and Marleen de Witte highlight, may lead religious practitioners to be highly suspicious about the formats and styles that go along with audiovisual mass media. In addition to this postsecular stance, the articles presented in this special issue also share a commitment to moving beyond the assumption of an ontological difference between religion as a domain of the transcendent, on the one hand, and film as a domain of neutral technology, on the other. In this regard, we prefer the notion of mediation as a more open-ended, non-determinist solution for exploring the multiple relationships between religion and film. For example, once religion is understood as a practice of mediation, media appear not as alien to the realm of religion, but as an inalienable element on which any attempt to access and render present the transcendental ultimately depends. By using “mediation” we hope to shift our emphasis away from religion and film as abstract substantialized essences towards a non-dualist emphasis on the relational and contingent practices in which film and religion overlap and engage each other. Brent Plate, in his contribution to this issue, coins the term “religious cinematics” to stress explicitly this point where religion and film merge through the embodied practices of the human senses." (Guest Editors’ Preface, pages 150-151) more

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The Role of the OSCE in Media Development: International Conference Organised by Press Now in Cooperation with the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affaires

Dessislava Damianova (project coord.)

Amsterdam: Press Now (2005), 72 pp.

"This paper derives from a seminar on Media Development and OSCE field missions, which was organised by Press Now and the Netherlands Helsinki Committee, and hosted by the Netherlands Foreign Ministry in The Hague on 16 June 2005. These remarks convey the summary thoughts and practical recommendatio ... more

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Targeting International Audiences: Current and Future Approaches to International Broadcasting Research

Oliver Zöllner (ed.)

Bonn: Conference of International Boradcasters' Audience Research Services (CIBAR) (2005), 202 pp.

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A missâo da rádio católica nas comunidades: X assembléia UNDA Brasil, IV assembléia RCR. São Paulo, 11 a 14 de novembro de 2004

Marcelo Lima (ed.)

São Paulo: UNDA Brasil; Rede Católica de Radio (RCR) (2005), 96 pp.

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Ética, prensa y democracia: Seminario

Lima: Universidad de Lima, Fondo Editorial (2005), 79 pp.

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Building Trust and Responding to Adverse Events Following Immunisation in South Asia: Using Strategic Communication

Kathmandu: UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia (2005), vi, 57 pp.

"To develop communication capacity specifically around adverse events following immunisation (AEFI), the UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia (ROSA) and the WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia (SEARO) organized a joint regional workshop "Strategic Communication: Building Trust and Responding to ... more

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From Papyrus to Print-Out: The Book in Africa Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. Bibliophilia Africana 8 Conference Proceedings, Centre of the Book Cape Town, 11-14 May 2005

Cora Owens (ed.)

Pretoria and Cape Town: National Library of South Africa, Centre of the Book (2005), 297 pp.

"Loosely divided into three sections that focus on the past, the present, and the future, the papers in the proceedings of the 2005 Bibliophilia Africana conference offer a wide variety of contributions on the state of the book in Africa, and on topics such as promoting a reading culture, book and n ... more

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Best Practices in Journalism Education in the Information Age: Proceedings

Violet B. Valdez, Chay Florentino Hofileña, Mark Vincent Escaler, Werner vom Busch (eds.)

Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University, Center for Journalism (CFJ) (2005), 172 pp.

"The contributions in this book are the result of four years of experience in online teaching at the Konrad Adenauer Center for Journalism (CFJ) at the prestigious Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines. First presented at a workshop at the Ateneo de Manila in December 2004, the individual chapter ... more

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Deutsch-arabischer Mediendialog: Jugend, Medien und Politische Partizipation. Berlin 29.-30. November 2004. Dokumentation

Barbara Kuhnert (ed.)

Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2005), 51 pp.

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Promoting a Culture of Peace

Kuala Lumpur: Signis Asia; Signis Malaysia; Cahayasuara Communications Centre (2005), 186 pp.

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Bildkorrekturen: Nur Hunger und Armut? Berichterstattung über das tägliche Leben im Süden, 16.-18. Dezember 2004

Matthias Braun, Jan Schlieter, Dorothee Schmidt, Kayode Salau (ed.)

Feldafing: Internationale Weiterbildung und Entwicklung (InWEnt) (2005), 59 pp.

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Why We Write: The Politics and Practice of Writing for Social Change

Jim Downs (ed.)

New York; Abingdon: Routledge (2005), 191 pp.

"This volume grew out of the Why We Write conference held at Columbia University in the spring of 2003. The conference was the second part of a series of conferences organized by graduate students in the history department that explored issues related to history, social change, and the politics of w ... more