Annex 3

Selection of audio-visual, tv and radio productions

New Home, New Life - Afghanistan
New Home New Life [Khpala Khaura/Sada-e-Abadi] is a radio soap opera produced in Peshawar, Pakistan by the Pashto Service of the BBC World Service. The programme is broadcast by the BBC and re-broadcast by Radio Pakistan in the Pashto and Dari languages as an educational vehicle. The programme uses the paradigm of Afghan village life to address a wide range of issues. While the programme is not specifically or exclusively intended as a conflict resolution or conflict prevention project, issues related to conflict resolution are frequently featured in the programme.

REACH - Afghanistan (in cooperation with Media Action International)
REACH was originally conceived in spring 1997 as a response to the Taliban ban on education for girls and the dearth of schools for all children in Afghanistan. Over the following two years it was developed as a radio programme to promote active learning amongst children via radio. REACH was produced in cooperation with the BBC World Service's Afghan Education Projects making the programmes, and with Media Action International providing oversight and coordination of the project.

Rruga Me Pisha - Albania (now under the 'Rruge Me Pisha Foundation')
Albania's first radio soap deals with life in a fictional suburb of the capital city, Tirana. Primarily entertainment, the soap also raises awareness of and stimulates debate on a range of issues common to everyday life in Albania, such as blood feuds, domestic violence, institutional corruption and land disputes.

The Radio Teacher - Somalia
Macallinka Raddiyaha, The Radio Teacher, is a groundbreaking initiative from the BBC World Service Trust and the Africa Educational Trust (AET), which could help break the cycle of violence and illiteracy in Somalia. If it achieves its aim, in a year's time 12,000 men and women will be able to read and write. These men and women are the veterans of the violence, which has torn Somalia apart since the early 1990s, a generation who grew up in the middle of a savage civil war and had no chance of receiving any schooling. This project will open up new opportunities for that generation.

Gimme6 - Cyprus
Common Ground Productions (CGP) has developed Gimme6, a curriculum-based children's television programme focusing on youth, relationship-building and problem-solving. Gimme6 uses television and an interactive web site (www.gimme6.com) to entertain children while educating them on issues of global concern.

Luzes Na Sombra - Angola
A 12-part documentary series produced in 1998, Luzes na Sombra (Lights in the Shade) looks at the role of the individual in rebuilding local communities. The concept behind the series is that there are many lights in the shade or ways that can help bring a country closer towards peace. By spotlighting individuals who feel they have the power to make a difference, the series hopes to inspire others to do the same. It highlights the importance of individuals' actions, showing how they are critical agents in the realisation of a more peaceful, democratic Angola. The series covers such topics as domestic violence, street children, land mines, amputees, and traditional methods of resolving conflict, demobilised soldiers, trauma, music and many others. It has aired on Angolan television, TPA, and Portuguese television, RTP/Africa and received praise from members of civil society and various government officials.

Mimo Vas - Bosnia and Herzegovina
In 1998, Common Ground Productions and F.I.S.T., a Sarajevo film and television production company, started the television series Mimo Vas (a play on words meaning 'life passing by'), which presents an intimate look at the peoples of Bosnia. The F.I.S.T. production team travels throughout Bosnia & Herzegovina to interview taxi drivers and mayors, politician's wives, café workers and police officers - people who, in unparalleled ways, have rebuilt their lives and proven that the human spirit can overcome conflict and strife. With wit, insight and charm, Mimo Vas highlights the commonalties that everyone shares in Bosnia & Herzegovina.

Nashe Maalo - Macedonia
Nashe Maalo ('Our Neighborhood'), a children's television programme made to promote intercultural understanding, to encourage conflict prevention in a multicultural society, and to impart specific conflict-resolution skills that children can use in their everyday lives. This series, co-produced by Common Ground Productions (CGP) and Search for Common Ground in Macedonia (SCGM), presents a timely opportunity to influence an entire generation of children in Macedonia in the direction of mutual tolerance and respect.

Our Street - Ukraine
A new conflict prevention radio drama for young adults in the Crimea was produced in 2002. Designed to model new ways of working together across social and ethnic lines, the series is created in collaboration with the Youth and Children Theatre on Moskoltso inter-ethnic drama troupe. The 13-episode series depicts the complexities of the conflict through everyday pressures for young adults from school, drugs, parents, rape, relationships, friends, government and religion.

Studio Ijambo - Burundi
Studio Ijambo ('wise words' in Kirundi) employs Hutu and Tutsi staff to produce about 15 hours a week of news, public affairs, and cultural programming. The studio's radio drama, the most popular programme in the country entitled Umubanyi Niwe Muryango (Our Neighbours, Ourselves), describes the trials and tribulations of these neighbours and how, - together they overcome the problems common to both families.

Talking Drum Studio - Liberia, Siera Leone
Talking Drum Studio - Sierra Leone (TDS-SL), operated by Search for Common Ground, began start-up operations in April 2000. Within a few months TDS-SL had created five radio programming strands that are currently airing on seven stations for a combined airtime of over 10 hours per week. Though each programming strand has a different format, all of them have the same goal: to encourage peace and reconciliation.

Radio Agatashya - DR Congo, Rwanda, Burundi
The radio used to broadcast eight hours of programming in five different languages Kinyarwanda, the language of Rwanda; Kirundi, the language of Burundi; Swahili, the language of the region; English, and French. This included two principal news broadcasts a day, two news summaries, plus hundreds of magazine and feature programmes on topics such as health conditions, HIV/aids prevention, respect for human rights, and justice. The radio was shut down in 1997.

Radio Blue Sky - Kosovo
Blue Sky provided a multi-ethnic Kosovar audience with useful, accurate and impartial news and information. It also provided news and information on institution-building and physical reconstruction, as well as information on UNMIK, OSCE and KFOR. The station took particular care to dispel rumour and misinformation. All reports were double-checked and verified according to accepted standards of journalism. From July 1, 2000, it has become the second network of RTK (Radio Television Kosovo) a public service broadcaster in Kosovo working under the OSCE mandate.

Radio Ndeke Luka - Central African Republic
Radio MINURCA, the station of the United Nations peace keeping mission in the Central African Republic (CAR) was re-launched as Radio Ndeke Luka by the Hirondelle Foundation. The station will continue to act as a link between the UN, NGOs and the population. Its aim is to transmit impartial news in a professional manner on subjects such as economic and social development, security, good governance, peace and human rights. Its programmes are broadcast mostly in French and Sango, one of the local languages

Radio Okapi - DR Congo (in cooperation with the UN)
Radio Okapi is a radio network working in close cooperation with the UN and Fondation Hirondelle. The programmes are devoted to themes relating to health, education, human rights, and culture. They contain scrupulous, non-partisan, credible information broadcast throughout the country and music, and will enable the people of the Congo to communicate with their compatriots.

Studio Moris Hamutuk - East Timor
Studio Moris Hamutuk offers programming including information, magazine formats and music to all the inhabitants of East Timor, and refugees in West Timor. The overall objective of the project is to contribute to the post-conflict reconstruction, and to reconciliation in East Timor, through the dissemination of information. The direct objective of the project is to provide refugees and returnees with independent, objective, useful and credible information.

Radio Galkayo - Somalia
The station is the only community-based electronic media outlet in the Northeast of Somalia. Initially the International Amateur Radio Network provided the radio station set-up. Agencies that support the station include UNICEF, BBC, OXFAM Canada, UNESCO, Life and Peace, WFP, UNOSOM, SWS and Puntland state government of Somalia.

Radio Isanganiro - Burundi
An association of the journalists working for Studio Ijambo (see Common Ground Productions) started radio Isanganiro or 'Meeting Place'. The radio promotes peace, tolerance and a culture of human rights through objective news and information and dialogue. It promotes liberty of expression and contributes to the search for solutions to national and regional challenges

RFPI - Costa Rica
Radio for Peace International transmits programmes via short-wave and the Internet. The programmes champion human rights; increase global awareness; promote tolerance; inform and educate isolated populations; equip listeners to become architects of peace; expose prejudice, hatred, and injustice; celebrate diverse cultures; and advocate environmental awareness.

Sistema Nacional de Communicación para la Paz - Colombia
Several (42) community radio stations and two local television stations in Colombia collaborate in producing news programmes. The 'system' further contributes to regional efforts to consolidate a culture of tolerance and peace by providing an online forum and information database for practitioners in the field.

Voice of the people - Zimbabwe
VOP is an independent radio station that broadcasts into Zimbabwe on short-wave. Since its inception three years ago, it has been a thorn in the side of the Mugabe government, which has consistently refused to allow opposition views to be expressed on the state-run Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC).

Genocide on Trial - Rwanda
In 1999, Internews Network produced Genocide on Trial, a one-hour documentary about the global justice system prosecuting the genocide in Rwanda. The film covers the ICTR, and the concurrent Rwandan national trials of genocide suspects and the revival of the traditional court system as it pertains to the 1994 genocide. Also known as 'The Arusha Tapes', the film is being screened at locations around Rwanda as part of a three-year Internews project to bring information about international and domestic justice initiatives to Rwandans, who otherwise have little access to news or information about the proceedings. Further, it will be produced in Kinyarwanda and translated into English and French for distribution to broadcasters in Africa, Europe and North America. It will also be offered on videocassette to the international community.

Qeshu Rini Qeshu (Smile, Youth, Smile) - Kosovo
The daily 15-minute programmes, now broadcast on 21 stations, aim to emphasise civil society and reconstruction issues, which are crucial for the development of a stable, democratic society. The programmes, which are produced in a lively, highly informative manner with news, features, and music, also focus on the concerns of young people such as employment, sports, HIV-AIDS awareness and youth role models. Qeshu Rini Qeshu seeks to respond as much as possible to their questions regarding the future of Kosovo by promoting open debate.

SPEAR - Albania, Macedonia In early April 1999, Media Action International determined the need to develop an information programme for Kosovar refugees in Albania. Two weeks later, the first independent broadcasts, aimed at providing refugees, war victims, and the host population with humanitarian 'needs-based' information, were launched. The daily 30-minute programme - In the Name of Humanitarianism - in Albanian was initially broadcast on Radio Tirana and four other stations. By the end of the first month, it was estimated that over 50 per cent of the refugee population and as many as 70 per cent in the north heard the programme on a daily basis, one of the most effective editorially independent humanitarian programmes to date.

Radio Voice of Hope - Sudan The present radio Voice of Hope is intended to strengthen society inside the borders of New Sudan so as to make them aware, and to enable them to actively participate in the creation of a climate conducive for transformation towards a peaceful, and democratic society. The radio's objective is to promote peace, and reconciliation among the conflicting groups in South Sudan, South Sudanese languages, positive traditional values, and cultures in their own languages. This information will help them make an informed choice about their immediate and long-term future.

Radio U - Siera Leone In May 2000, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Sierra Leone (Unamsil) started its own radio station. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said the station would help Unamsil face the challenge of disseminating information on the peace process in a country whose infrastructure has been damaged by years of warfare.

Democratic Voice of Burma (National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma) The radio station was (financially) initiated by Worldview while DVB is now a non-profit Burmese media organisation committed to responsible journalism. Broadcasting started on July19, 1992 using transmitters of Radio Norway and the station is still committed to imparting the ideals of democracy and human rights to the people of Burma.

Voice of Tibet Voice of Tibet is an international radio programme produced by the Worldview International Foundation in collaboration with the Norwegian Tibet Committee and other Norwegian and international human rights groups. It started broadcasting on May 14, 1996. The broadcasts are aimed at Tibetan people both in Tibet and in neighbouring countries and are intended to promote peace and mutual understanding.

Videotapes

Africa: Search for Common Ground a 7-part television and radio series:

Programme 3: Reconciliation Radio: Video on Studio Ijambo - Kenya / Burundi Radio is the most productive and cost-effective means for delivering information in the Great Lakes region where an estimated 85% of the population has access to radios. Unfortunately in Burundi, as in Rwanda, hate radio has been used to incite ethnic violence between Hutus and Tutsis in the past decade. Animosities between the groups resulted in thousands of deaths in the region. However in Burundi, radio is also being utilised as a means of building understanding and promoting reconciliation. At Studio Ijambo, Hutu and Tutsi journalists work together to provide balanced news, features, and even soap operas. This episode spotlights journalists who risk their lives for reconciliation in Burundi.

Programme 6: Under the Baobab - South Africa/Angola For generations the ancient baobab tree stood at the heart of the Makuleke community, bringing shelter, nourishment, and a place of meeting. Yet, since 1969, when the Makuleke were forcibly relocated by the South African government, their land has been part of the Kruger National Park. Today, this tree has once again drawn people together to discuss their differences. On one side are the Makuleke people seeking restitution for the land they lost; on the other is the National Parks Board seeking to preserve the country's land and national resources. In this segment, the two parties try to reconcile the need for conservation with the needs of the Makuleke community.

Making the Peace Song - Angola Throughout the civil war in Angola there have been UNITA musicians and Government musicians. For someone on one side to hum a song from the music of the other was sometimes seen as a sign of disloyalty. Today, there is new hope for peace in Angola, and popular musicians on both sides have come together to sing a song for peace. We go behind the scenes to see the making of the Peace Song and video. Here we see people who have been separated for decades come together, work together, and create together.

The Making of Gimme 6 - Cyprus Gimme 6 is a curriculum-based children's television programme focusing on youth, relationship-building and problem-solving. Gimme6 uses television and an interactive web site (www.gimme6.com) to entertain children while educating them on issues of global concern. CGP and Sesame Workshop have worked together to develop Gimme6 and uses television as an educational tool for children. Grounded in the belief that children hold a key to a better future, the series will encourage positive self-image; help demystify and break down negative stereotypes; and expose and educate children on issues of global concern.

Responding to Conflict (www.respond.org, enquiries@respond.org)

Video project on different African peacebuilding initiatives:

The Wajir Story Documents a peace initiative, which began with a group of women in north-eastern Kenya and spread to all sectors of the community, including government, drawing on both traditional and modern methods.

Gulu, The Struggle for Peace Examines the work done by practitioners and community groups in the midst of violent conflict in Northern Uganda. It describes actions to rehabilitate child soldiers and ease the trauma of women affected by violence, as well as efforts to address the conflict directly.

Pulling together - Community Policing in the New South Africa Looks at the challenge to local security and policing posed by democratisation. It describes how one community painfully rebuilt relationships and forged new roles for its police officers in post-apartheid South Africa.

Only Through Dialogue - The Somali Way to Peace Traces the bottom-up process in Somaliland from the inside. The strength of customary processes is of vital importance, as is the creative, determined role played by elders, local NGOs and ordinary women and men.

Practice to Policy - Africa Brings together the experience and insights of practitioners with those of policymakers in Africa, showing the need to make connections in peacebuilding so that policy-shaping and practice inform and support each other. It also highlights the vital importance of working across all levels, from local to national and international.

UNESCO/OneWorld Video Training Module on radio-browsing technique- A video-training module on radio-browsing technique, produced by UNESCO and OneWorld International, is available on UNESCO's community multimedia centre web page. The video training module is intended to develop the skills of community radio and local FM radio presenters in developing countries. It is available for free download and is distributed on CD-ROM and VHS to training institutions. The video is the first of what will become a complete suite of training materials currently being prepared by UNESCO to meet the need for new training inputs that match the new uses being made of ICT by broadcasters and community telecentre managers for community development. (http://portal.unesco.org)

Witness Video for Change Video for Change is the second training video produced by Witness. Using footage shot by human rights activists from around the world, the video illustrates the various strategic ways video and communications technology can be used to further human rights advocacy. A written manual accompanies the video. (Running time 25 minutes)