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The Institute for Media, Peace and Security

The Institute for Media, Peace and Security, based in Paris, is part of the United Nations-affiliated University for Peace in Costa Rica. The Institute’s courses, research, conferences, workshops and other activities aim to serve the development and strengthening of free media worldwide. They work from the notion that free media are an indispensable foundation of democracy, and democracy tends more often than not to serve peace. The institute’s actions ultimately aim to help prevent international conflict. The Institute aims to be an intellectual tool for preventive diplomacy and to educate people in the many ways the media interact with issues of conflict, peace and security. By its education and research programmes, and by its day-to-day contacts with UN and regional peacekeeping bodies, the Institute intends to contribute to new thinking about how free media can help prevent conflict, and alert decision-makers as well as the general public, to looming risks of war.

43 rue d’Assas

75006 Paris

France

Tel +33 1 4222 7575, Fax+33 1 4222 9000

spicer@mediapeace.org

www.mediapeace.org

Contact

Keith Spicer, Director

Budget

$100,000 - $500,000

Number of staff

4
Publications

Programmes

Conference series on media, conflict and terrorism

Conflict-zone courses

Print Media courses

Radio-TV courses

courses