The news - responsible for war and terrorism?

events | :Could it be different - and how? ministry for peace invites you to an evening on Peace Journalism in the Grand Committee Room of the Houses of Parliament on 30 November 2005 at 7 p.m.

Hosted by John McDonnell, MP

Peace Journalism explains how most coverage of conflict unwittingly fuels further violence, and proposes workable options to give peace a chance.  Based on critical self-awareness, it draws on conflict analysis and peace research—what is known and has been observed about conflict—to make news about war and ‘terrorism ’ both more accurate and more useful.

The Speakers:

Jake Lynch ’s book, Peace Journalism, co-authored with Annabel McGoldrick, is published by Hawthorn Press, with an Introduction by Roy Greenslade. Phillip Knightley said: ‘You cannot put it down without being convinced that the authors are right. ’ Jake is a BBC television news anchor and reporter, a former Political Correspondent for Sky News and Sydney Correspondent for the Independent newspaper. He is a director of Reporting the World, described by the Observer newspaper as ‘the nearest thing we have to a journalism think-tank ’ in the UK. He teaches annual MA modules in Peace Journalism at the universities of Cardiff, Sydney and Queensland; and has led professional training workshops in Peace Journalism in many countries including Indonesia, the Philippines, Nepal, the Middle East and the Caucasus.

Jane Corbin started in television as a reporter for Thames, Granada and ITN.  As a correspondent on Channel 4 News she covered events around the world, including the Angolan civil war, before joining the BBC in 1988 as a reporter on ‘Panorama'. She was the first UK reporter to film widely in Cambodia after the fall of Pol Pot, and made three programmes on the war in Kosovo.  In recent years Jane has concentrated on the Middle East, focusing in particular on Iraq before, during and after the 2003 invasion, and on Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda.  She has also written two books - Gaza First: The Secret Norway Channel to Peace Between Israel and the PLO and The Base: In Search of al-Qaeda.  Jane has four times won a Royal Television Society journalism award and has been nominated several times for an EMMY for best investigative international journalism.

John Lloyd is contributing editor of the Financial Times and the founding editor of the FT Magazine. His previous jobs on the paper have included industrial editor and Moscow bureau chief. He has been the editor of Time Out and New Statesman and has worked as a reporter and producer on LWT ’s ‘London Programme' and ‘Weekend World'. He also writes for the New York Times, Scotland on Sunday, Prospect and other magazines.  John sits on the editorial board of Prospect magazine and the board of Moscow School of Political Studies, and is a member of the advisory council of The Foreign Policy Centre.  John's books include Loss Without Limit: The British Miners' Strike and Rebirth of a Nation: an Anatomy of Russia.  His most recent book - What the Media Are Doing to Our Politics - has prompted a debate on the role of the media and the quality of journalism in the UK.

Gabrielle Rifkind is Human Security Consultant to Oxford Research Group and Director of the Oxford Process. She is a group analyst and specialist in conflict resolution and is convener and initiator of the Middle East Policy Initiative Forum (MEPIF). She has initiated and facilitated a number of Track II roundtables and hosts the media ‘Liddite' Conversations with ORG.

There is no charge to attend the meeting and no pass is needed to enter the Houses of Parliament

Please arrive 15 minutes early to get through the security system.

DATELINE: 24 January, 2010

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