REPORTERS FROM KARABAKH PARTICIPATE IN THE NEW IWPR PROJECT
KarabakhOpen
09-05-2007 12:29:43
A few days the Institute for War and Peace Reporting ago held a
seminar in Yerevan in the frame of the project Caucasian Network
of Journalism. The project is financed by the European Union. 13
journalists from the South and North Caucasus (including from
Nagorno-Karabakh) watched the election campaign in Armenia, met with
famous Armenian politicians, discussed the state of freedom of speech
in the countries of the Caucasus.
These three days were an opportunity for the reporters to study the
standards of reporting in the pre-election period, learn the ABC of
conflictology, meet with the representatives of the Republican Party,
the National Democratic Party, the People’s Party and the Heritage
Party. They also arranged to write collaborative articles.
The IWPR is an international organization of journalists, based
in London.
It works in 23 countries of the world, it has 7 regional offices. The
IWPR projects are intended to raise the skills of the journalists
and assist in promoting peace and democracy in post-conflict countries.
By this project about 50 journalists from the Caucasian region will
be included in the Caucasian Network of Journalism, whose articles
will be available at , as well as on the Web site of the
Network. It is foreseen to write collaborative articles, as well as
missions to the regions where certain developments of interest will be
underway. For instance, a mission of journalists from different parts
of the Caucasus will arrive to report on the Karabakh presidential
election on July 19, 2007.