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PANOS Institute International

The Panos Institute is an international non-governmental organisation which was founded in 1986 as an independent non-profit organisation. The Institute has a decentralised structure with autonomous offices in London, Paris, Washington, Kathmandu, Kampala, Addis, Haiti, and Dakar. The set of themes to which Panos gives priority are pluralism of (media) information, the role of media in the prevention and management of conflicts, the relation between migration and development, HIV/AIDS, and globalisation. In the era of new information technology, Panos attempts to put forward the central role information and communication play in the development of civil society in the North and South. Panos aims at removing the inequalities between the ‘information-poor’ and ‘information-rich’.

9 White Lion Street,

London N1 9 PD, United Kingdom

Tel. +44 207 278 111, Fax +44 207 278 0345

panos@panoslondon.org.uk

www.panos.org.uk/

Contact

James Deane (Executive Director)

PANOS Institute Paris

The Panos institute Paris has an extensive tri-annual Media for Peace (MP) programme, which aims to reinforce the capacity of journalists and their professional organisations and civil society in general. This inter-regional programme is developed under the coordination of the Institute Panos Paris and is co-produced by the Panos Institute London (in relation to its antenna of Kampala) and Panos Institute Dakar.

The programme is based on the conviction that the work of the journalists in Africa today is affected by the fact that national and local media, private and independent of governments, are in full expansion while new technologies have radically transformed flows of information, inside the countries as well as between them. Thanks to the Internet, the coverage of African conflicts produced by African journalists can henceforth reach the audiences of the countries of the North in times of conflict. Coverage of these conflicts exposes journalists to basic questions about their professional practice. The Institute Panos Paris, in conjunction with its antennas in West Africa (Dakar, Bamako and Accra) started to intervene in the field of conflicts in 1994. This intervention has had five principal directions

• supporting the production and circulation of information on conflicts by the African media,

• research, with the objective of providing the means for the media to evaluate their role and reinforce their capacities (studies on the role of the media in certain conflicts in West Africa Liberia (‘98); Senegal - Guinea Bissau (‘99),

• creating a network of media professionals and civil society organisations,

• publication of various documents resulting from the seminars or research initiated within the framework of the programme,

• organising seminars and workshops.

10, rue du Mail, F-75002

Paris, France

Tel. +33 1 40 41 13 31, Fax +33 1 40 41 03 30

communication@panosparis.org

www.panosparis.org

Contact

Florent Houdmon (Press and Public Relations)

Publications

Environnement, journalisme et conflits dans la vallée du fleuve Sénégal (Saint-Louis, Sénégal, august 1994)

Media, conflict resolution and peace in Africa (Accra, Ghana, November 1996)

Media and peace building in Africa (Kampala, December 1997)

Des médias pluralistes en Central Africa, pour la démocratie et la paix (Yaoundé, June 1999)

Des médias pour la paix en Afrique comment les soutenir et les renforcer ? (Accra, April 1999)

Le role des Medias comme acteurs de Paix en temps de conflit. Final Report, Kigali 2002.

Construction de la paix dans la région des Grands Lacs Rencontres entre professionnels des médias et acteurs de la société civile. Nairobi 2002

The PANOS Institute Washington

The Panos Institute Washington is an international organisation that works to strengthen civil society in countries across the globe by helping and training journalists to cover issues of development. Moreover, the Panos Institute seeks to create sustainable mechanisms whereby journalists working in difficult circumstances or across various countries can effectively and safely assert a right to freedom of expression and encourages cross-border collaboration and alliances among journalists. Therefore it has created MediaNET, an electronic network of connected journalists both within and outside of a country.

MediaNET’s first effort was to stimulate responsible reporting of violations of fundamental rights and government corruption while simultaneously ensuring some measure of personal safety for journalists in Nigeria. As journalists in Nigeria were summarily imprisoned by the military from late 1997 into 1998, correspondents there notified colleagues in the US. Panos’ local partner the Independent Journalism Centre (IJC) based in Lagos, Nigeria facilitated these reports (see separate entry). Through this peer-mentoring approach to cross-border journalism Panos’ MediaNET aims to target trans-border issues effectively.

1322 18th Street, NW, Suite 26

Washington, DC 20036, USA

Tel. +1 202 429 0730, Fax +1 202 223 7947

panos@cais.com

www.panosinst.org

Contact

Gretchen Maynes, Executive Director

Publications

Arms to Fight, Arms to Protect Women Speak Out About Conflict, Olivia Bennett, et al., eds. 1995

War Wounds Sudanese People Report on Their War, by Abdul Raham et al., 1988

Teaching modules From information to Education series. Conflict and Development, 1994, pp. 15

Programmes

Media Net

Training of media practitioners, NGOs and community organisations

Production of Source Materials

Oral Testimonies

Media and National Identity Formation Nigeria

Strengthening of Media Organisations Nigeria