The United Nations Alliance of Civilizations’ ability to improve relations between Christians and Muslims has been limited

Following 9/11, the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) was created to improve inter-community relations between Christians and Muslims. Over a decade after the Alliance was established, Jeffrey Haynes argues that while it is now an established entity at the UN, its capacity to help improve global justice in the context of relations between the West and the Muslim world is undermined by financial, organisational and policy-related weaknesses

The Global Media and Information Literacy Week: Moving Towards MIL Cities

The Global Media and Information Literacy Week commemorates the progress in achieving “MIL for all” by aggregating various MIL-related local and international events and actions across different disciplines around the world.The MIL Global Week 2018, 24 to 31 October, was marked by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in collaboration with various organizations including the UN Alliance of Civilizations, the Global Alliance for Partnership on MIL, the International Federation of Library Associations, the International Association of School Libraries, and the UNESCO-UNAOC University Cooperation Programme on Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue

Observer or participator? Diversity challenges for the role of the media profession

In the post 9/11 era there is considerable opportunity for the media profession to give insight into what has compelled one side to act in a way that has enraged and empowered another side to act in a manner that further caused hostility or anger to become entrenched.  When a crisis is on the rise, journalists, and the wider network of media, are often in a unique position to access areas where others are forbidden. Through skilful reporting journalists can elicit the specific points of justification from decision-makers and leaders. Where irony or illogic is discovered, seeking to discover the reason for this often identifies a vital link between ignorance and compulsion. When that connection is reported, the opportunity exists to inform

The United Nations Alliance of Civilisations and global justice

The United Nations Alliance of Civilisations (UNAOC) was established in 2005, following Islamist terrorist attacks in the USA, Spain, and the UK. Spain’s initiative was co-sponsored by the government of Turkey. Spain’s key concern was growing polarisation between different ‘civilisational’ groups, separated by religious and cultural differences. In modern international relations, ‘civilisational’ conflicts are sui generis. The UN, founded in 1945, has no tradition or history of dealing with such issues. It is by convention and by design secular in orientation. Consequently, it seemed anomalous to establish UNAOC, an entity created to try to deal with widening civilisational divisions, especially between Muslims and Christians. UNAOC aimed to do this by linking states and civil society, to create a durable and evolving network of international actors to work together to improve civilisational dialogue and reduce conflict. The article addresses two questions: (1) What has UNAOC achieved? and (2) How does UNAOC address issues of global injustice

A Global Glossary

"Fall 2013""Internship at the U.N. leads to international relations in grad school."Story by Kelsey Allen ; Photos courtesy of Meenakshi Dala

Press freedom and reporting on the government in Myanmar

Professional project report submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts in Journalism from the School of Journalism, University of Missouri--Columbia.This project investigates the state of press freedom in Myanmar by comparing reporting on the government in Myanmar before and after the government lifted central censorship on print media in August 2012. Eleven semi-structured interviews were conducts. Subjects are twelve experienced journalists, who have been covering Myanmar for years. The results show a significant change in the condition of working as well as the attitude towards reporting in Myanmar. While skepticism on a total free-press is still there, many journalists are optimistic about the future.Includes bibliographic references

Fall 2018

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