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The Caucasian Circle of Peace Journalism web community

Join the web community fostering conflict-sensitive reporting in the South Caucasus. Enhance skills and capacities for peace journalism through networking and cooperation among regional journalists.

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The Caucasian Circle of Peace Journalism web community

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  1. The Caucasian Circle of Peace Journalism web community An initiative of the project “Media Cooperation and Peace Journalism in the South Caucasus”, with the generous support of the German Marshall Fund’s Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation and COBERM (funded by the European Union and administered by UNDP)

  2. The project: increased cooperation & capacity building on conflict-sensitive journalism • Overall goal: contribute toward a peace-enabling environment through strengthened skills and capacities of regional media Specifically: • 1) Creating mechanisms, space, tools for networking and cooperation between journalists • 2) Building the capacity of regional journalists on conflict-sensitive reporting

  3. The idea: a web community for journalists from all over the South Caucasus • Initial project coordination meeting in Ankara, 15-17 April 2011: agreement among RFPs on a project web community, hosted on a “neutral” server • May – July: the CaucasianCircle of Peace Journalism(Кавказский кругмирной журналистики)is set up onhttp://www.peaceportal.orgas a blog community

  4. From blogging the project to developing articles on human interest stories • September: project training at Eastern Mediterranean University in Famagusta,Northern Cyprus, and firstblog posts regarding the trainingevent • October – November: re-conceptualisation of the webcommunity – focus on humaninterest stories from all regions of the South Caucasus

  5. Launching the Caucasian Circle of Peace Journalism • Web community launched on the GPPAC Peace Portal and on Blogger • Aims: increasing outreach,facilitating cross-posting andlink-up with social media • GPPAC as a strategic partnerand communicationplatform for CSOs activein peacebuilding from allover the world

  6. Interlinking with Social Media:http://krugjurnalistiki.blogspot.comhttp://caucasiancircle.blogspot.com Components: • Blogger account with two blogs to post articles produced by regional journalists in Russian and in English • Google+ account to disseminate information to those interested in regional news and alternative narratives • Facebook group for communication among an enlarged circle of project participants • Google Groups for internal communication among Regional Focal Points (scpeacejournalism@googlegroups.com) and project participants (krugjurnalistiki@googlegroups.com)

  7. What we have done so far… • PeacePortal community and Blogger sites went online in December • Articles and multimedia contributions (videos) received from each of the six participating regions (Abkhazia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia) • Cooperation for cross-posting and sharing of material with the Caucasus Conflict Voices blog, Go Group Media’s Eyewitness Studio and Global Voices (Caucasus) • Online publications such as Eurasianet.org pick up articles written by our authors for their own sites and for further information

  8. Looking toward the future… • Fully operational Peace Portal community and further development of the blogger sites • Integration strategy of all social media components • Widening the circle of contributing journalists • Strengthening and broadening cooperation with other social media projects, CSO and media partners, individual bloggers • Strengthening the capacities and resources of the project team (for editing, translation …) • Further capacity building of journalists in conflict-sensitive journalism and in the use of social media tools • …

  9. Thank you for your attention! http://krugjurnalistiki.blogspot.com http://caucasiancircle.blogspot.com http://www.peaceportal.org/krugjurnalistiki For questions & suggestions: scpeacejournalism@gmail.com marion@iccn.ge

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