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The New York University and CIMERA will work together
to enhance a better collaboration between government officials and the
media to fight against human trafficking in Armenia and to make people
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November 2003: 28: Communication without borders – Intercultural friendship in children’s eyes Arts Information Center,Soros Foundation,Frunze Museum, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan In the frame of the project „Multilingual Education in Kyrgyzstan“ CIMERA is organising an exhibition of children’s drawings on the topic “How I talk with my friends”. The artists – children from two countries, Kyrgyzstan and Switzerland – all attend multilingual classes. Through drawing, children can express all their ideas freely, without any of the restrictions that might come from limited competencies in one or the other language and they can communicate their own view of the world. More than anything else, drawing can tell us about children’s feelings and thoughts. One of the main goals of the “Multilingual Education in Kyrgyzstan” project is to develop and enrich intercultural relationships between peoples, starting in early childhood. The exhibition marks the beginning of a bridge of friendship between children of various nations. The exhibition started in the city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan, where it took place in September 2003. The second stage of the exhibition is taking place from November 28 to December 6 2003 in the Arts Information Centre of the Soros Foundation (Frunze Museum) in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. After that the exhibition will also be shown in Switzerland. |
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September 2003: 26-27: Mass-media transformation in post-soviet conditions CMI, Yerevan, Armenia
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Geneva, Switzerland The last decade has brought revolutionary changes to the media sector and the professional practice of journalists working in post-Soviet societies. The collapse of Soviet censorship, the emergence of new independent states and the new rhythm given to communication thanks to the new technologies, have transformed the profession and the work conditions of journalists beyond recognition. After initial successes in the last years of Glasnost and in the early nineties, the media sector finds itself in a very deep crisis. Although the profession played an important role in revealing what was still taboo in the Soviet society - from Stalinism to environmental damage – today mass media are in most cases unable to shape public opinion or lead debates in their societies, and have lost the popular trust they enjoyed a decade ago. What is it that has lead mass media into such a difficult situation? What role does the state play in this sphere? How does the new market environment affect mass media? What is needed in order to secure independence of journalists? How are new technologies transforming the media scene? And what are the individual stories of journalists and their media institutions in the newly independent republics? In order to discuss those questions, the CMI in collaboration with CIMERA is organizing an international conference on September 26-27 in Yerevan. The conference will bring together over 20 media experts, journalism professors, researchers, and reporters from various CIS countries, Iran, Eastern and Western Europe, and the US. Working languages are Russian and English. Conference proceedings will be published in Russian and English. For more information, please contact Moritz GathmannThe organizers: Caucasus Media Institute assists in the development of mass media in the Caucasus. Our aim is to achieve a professional standard of journalism capable to inform the public and offer debate through the mass media. CMI works in three directions: to introduce international standards of reporting into journalism in the Caucasus, to train journalists to use new technologies which are reshaping the media profession, to offer background knowledge and critical analysis of recent developments in the region and the world. CMI brings together training and research, so that our practical experience is enriched by our efforts to better understand the changing socio-political conditions in post-Soviet Caucasus. www.caucasusmedia.org
CIMERA is a Geneva-based non-profit organization, working in good governance, conflict transformation, and media development projects. CIMERA is active in the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Balkans, as well as in Switzerland. www.cimera.org
Special thanks to: The conference organizers would like to thank the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, and the German Federal Foreign Office, and the German Embassy in Armenia, for their financial support. Participants (in order of appearance) and topics: Opening of the conference.
Mediated by Alexander Iskandarian, Deputy Director, CMI.
Mediated by Ilona Urbanovich.
Mediated by Alexander Khamagaev.
Mediated by Diana Schmidt.
Mediated by Vicken Cheterian.
Mediated by Oleg Panfilov.
Mediated by Steven Pasternack.
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12: Presentation by Eric Grigorian, journalist- photographer CMI, Yerevan, Armenia Discussion with Eric Grigorian, award-winner of the 2002 World Press Photo contest, around his Iraqi photo essay. Read the
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July 2003: 28-30: Center for Emergency Journalism Roundtable Program CMI, Yerevan, Armenia
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17: CMI Events: Presentation of CMI new publication and Photo Exhibition Opening: 12:00am, CMI, Yerevan, Armenia Vicken Cheterian: Little Wars and a Great Game. Translated from English by Alida Gonchegulyan. Caucasus Media Institute, Yerevan 2003, 132 pages What is it that makes the current cease-fires in Karabakh and Abkhazia last? Why did the Russian Federal troops return to Chechnya three years after the Khasavyurt agreements and their pullout from this rebellious Caucasian republic? How does the Caspian development of hydrocarbon resources influence the current security architecture in the Caucasus? Little Wars and a Great Game proposes a comparative study of how the struggle of great powers over Caspian oil resources is influencing the ethnic and political conflicts in post-Soviet Caucasus.Little Wars and a Great Game is the first Russian translation of the English edition published in Bern by the Swiss Peace Foundation. The text has been updated for the Russian edition, maps and appendices were added to the volume to help the reader. The author of this study, Vicken Cheterian, was born in Lebanon, and lived in Switzerland since 1990. In the 1990s, he covered the conflicts in the Caucasus for European papers, and published a number of academic studies and articles covering the Caucasus, the Caspian, and Central Asia. He is a founding member of the Swiss CIMERA organization and the director of the Caucasus Media Institute. The publication was realized thanks to the financial support of the Swiss
Agency for Development and Cooperation, SDC.
For more information, go to: http://www.caucasusmedia.org/publications.php
Lethal Toys An exhibition of documentary photographs by German Avakian. The project is supported by the Erna & Victor Hasselblad Foundation (Sweden) and the
Armenian
Investigative Journalists’ Association.
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10-12: CMI-Special Training Program: A course for journalists on developments in online journalism: CMI, Yerevan, Armenia "Ten years of online journalism – the user and interactive news" Day 1: 9:00am-5:30pm
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June 2003: CALL FOR PAPERS: Conference organized by the CMI (Yerevan) and CIMERA (Geneva): 26-27 september 2003, at the CMI, Yerevan, Armenia: "Mas media transformation in post-soviet conditions" The Caucasus Media Institute (CMI) and CIMERA are pleased to announce the conference ”Mass Media Transformation in Post-Soviet Conditions”, to be held in Yerevan, on September 26-27, 2003. The aim of this conference is to provide an in-depth analysis about the trends taking place within the media sector of the post-Soviet societies, especially the southern republics. The conference will try to study similarities in the thematic part of the conference (state intervention, the impact of marketization, the social role of the mass media), as well as specific historic developments in each country, in the second, geographic block of the conference. Following this analytical part, the conference will look at the concrete experiences of various media support and development interventions, and draw conclusions on the practical work done, and reflecting over the theoretical cadre determining this intervention. Submission of Proposals: Proposals should be submitted via e-mail to Moritz Gathmann, moritz.cmi@netsys.am Please include:
PLEASE SUBMIT ABSTRACTS BEFORE AUGUST 1, 2003! The organizers will answer by mid-August. Conference participants are invited to submit a 10-15 A4 page manuscripts two months after the conference, for preparing the publication of the conference proceedings.The conference organizers particularly encourage researchers and media observers from post-Soviet countries to submit papers. Experts invited to take part in the conference will be assisted in travel arrangements, and travel expenses will be reimbursed. The Organisers: The Caucasus Media Institute: assists in the development of mass media in the Caucasus. Our aim is to achieve a professional standard of journalism capable to inform the public and offer debate through the mass media. CMI works in three directions: To introduce international standards of reporting in journalism in the Caucasus, To form journalists in the use of new technologies which are reshaping the media profession, To offer background knowledge and critical analysis of recent developments in our area of concern. CMI brings together training and research, so that our practical experience is enriched by our efforts to better understand the changing socio-political conditions in post-Soviet Caucasus. http://www.caucasusmedia.org
CIMERA is a Geneva-based non-profit organization, working in good governance, conflict transformation, and media development projects. CIMERA is active in the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Balkans, as well as in Switzerland. http://www.cimera.org
This project is organized thanks to the generous contribution of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). |
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May 2003: 4-7:Workshop: Photo editing for the 21st century CMI, Yerevan, Armenia Trainer: Mark H. Milstein Workshop description: This course caters to photo editors at newspapers and magazine who want to take their editing skills into the 21st century. New developments within the profession will be discussed, with an emphasis on managing your photographic team and taking your archive from a cost center to a money maker. At the conclusion of the course, participants will:
Course Content Outline: Day 1: May 4, 10am-5pm
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April 2003: 18-19: Conference: "Religion and Politics in the Caucasus, The religious factor in the political discourse in the South and North Caucasus" CMI, Demirchyan Pagughi 23, 375002 Yerevan, Armenia The Caucasus Media Institute organized a scientific conference focused on the role of religious factor in the political discourse in the Caucasus. The conference aimed to reflect on the place of religion in the ongoing political developments of both the Northern and the Southern Caucasus. A broad spectrum of topics have been discussed during the conference including:
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16: PRESS RELEASE by CJES: BOOK: "Journalism and languages: recognition and role of Russian and Kyrgyz mass media in Kyrgyzstan" Published in Kyrgyzstan Center
for Journalists in Extreme Situations The main aim of specialized socio-linguistic research was to reveal differences between Kyrgyz and Russian Mass Media in Kyrgyzstan and define their role in public-political processes. Swiss organization CIMERA and Swiss agency on development and cooperation supported conduction and publication of research results. Britta Kort from Switzerland is research initiator. Gulnara Ibraeva is research author, she is candidate for sociological sciences, head of Sociology program in American University in Central Asia. Basic themes review, historical materials on Russian and Kyrgyz languages' development, students and journalists' opinions, articles' analysis consist this book.  read
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A MEDIA-CENTER "MONITORING OF CONFLICTS AND VIOLATIONS OF JOURNALIST'S AND MASS MEDIA RIGHTS IN KYRGYZSTAN" |
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10: Seminar: "Media coverage of the war in Iraq" CMI, Demirchyan Pagughi 23, 375002 Yerevan, Armenia 14:00 pm The Caucasus Media Institute is organizing a half a day seminar on how mass media in different countries is covering the on-going war in Iraq. The aim of the seminar is to evaluate the elements of censorship in war period, the limits of freedom of expression, and the changing culture of war reporting. Participants:
For further questions, do not hesitate to contact the Caucasus Media institute: + 3741 54 06 31/32 or to send email: media@caucasusmedia.org
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March 2003: Publication of the Occasional Paper 2: "Journalism & Language: Perceptions and function of the Russian- and Kyrgyz-speaking media in Kyrgyzstan" Gulnara Ibraeva December 2002, 116 pages. Available in Russian and English read more and order publication
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February 2003: Publication of the Conference Proceeding 1: "Islam and Society in Central Asia" Dushanbe, Tadjikistan, 14-15 avril 2002 (50 pages) In English and Russian read more and order publication
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January 2003: 18.01 - 09.02: Exhibition "World Press Photo" 24 Baghramyan Ave., 375002, Yerevan, Armenia See
the website of the World Press PhotoThe Caucasus Media Institute and CIMERA are inviting the World Press Photo exhibition to Yerevan. |
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24: Round table - debate: "Islam and Politic in Central Asia" Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva Presentations by Professors Stéphane A. Dudoignon and Arne C. Seifert , followed by an informal discussion-debate. Program available on-line. ALSO: On the same subject, see the conference proceeding on "Islam and Politics in Central Asia". read
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