PECOJON Holds Seminar For Mindanao Journalists

The Peace and Conflict Journalism Network (PECOJON), in cooperation with the German's InWent (Internationale Weiterbildung und Entwicklung) and Pax Christi Pilipinas and Niall O'Brien Peace Center, is holding a seminar for Filipino journalists on peace and conflict journalism from May 12-14 in Davao City.

Hotel venue is still being discussed.

The seminar is free and the organizers pay for the bus fares (aircon), hotel accommodation and food. Certificates of attendance will be given at the end of the seminar.

PECOJON's Antonia Koop, a veteran German journalist, is the resource speaker. This will be the second seminar for Mindanao this year, the first was held in Zamboanga City in January.

PECOJON is a platform for investigation and practical support and also base for common projects, trainings and discussion. It is made up of journalists, filmmakers, writers and academicians.

InWEnt (Capacity Building International, Germany) gGmbH is synonymous with human resources and organizational development in international cooperation. Its education, exchange and dialogue programmes that offer places for about 55,000 individuals every year make InWEnt a very large-scale joint undertaking of the German Federal Government, the federal state (Länder) governments and industry.

The courses offered by InWEnt address specialists, executives and decision-makers in industry, politics, administration and civil society. InWEnt works with partners in developing countries, transition states and industrialized nations.

Pax Christi is an international peace movement. It was Established in France in 1945 as a reconciliation work between the French and the German, and now existing in more than 60 countries, it constitutes a non-governmental organization according to the rules of the UNESCO and the United Nations, the Commission on Human Rights in Geneva and the Council of Europe.

Pax Christi strives to play pioneer role in the research of solutions of armed conflicts. In 1983, it received the Prize for Peace Education of the UNESCO.

For more information, please call Len Manriquez, PECOJON Secretariat, at 0921.8286049 or email clyngon@yahoo.com.