Enhance the capabilities of journalists in the field of conflict-sensitive journalism.

The project aims to enhance the capabilities of young journalists in conflict-sensitive journalism. The program provided participants with the following knowledge and skills:

• Peace building concepts and the opportunities to build peace.
• Conflict concepts, its stages, its analysis tools and mechanisms to deal with it.
• Conflict-sensitive journalism and sensitive journalists.
• Methods of media coverage in accordance with the principles and criteria of peace journalism “conflict-sensitive journalism”
• The participants implemented five awareness sessions for media students in universities.
• Coming up with press materials according to the peace journalism criteria.

After the training was completed, a manual entitled “Peace Journalism” was issued, as well as a booklet containing a group of humanitarian stories written by the participants as training outputs.

This project was sponsored by the US-Middle East Partnership Initiative MEPI (US Research Agency, IREX).