Il Forum è nato dalla giornalista Marilù Mastrogiovanni ed è organizzato da Giulia Giornaliste e dalla cooperativa IdeaDinamica, con l’obiettivo di “creare ponti, abbattere muri: promuovere una riflessione sul giornalismo delle giornaliste investigative, come presidio di Democrazia, dunque di Pace”.
The themes of 2022: Women, Peace, Security and #Infowar. The festival, established in 2016, will take place from the 21st to the 25th in Bari.
60 hours of training, 80 peace builders from Euro-Mediterranean countries, the seal of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Central to University of Bari’s role in national implementation of UN Resolution 1325, “Women, Peace, Security”
ROME – It has arrived at the 7a edition of the Forum of Mediterranean Women Journalists (
https://giornaliste.org/
) which since 2016, has been held in the run-up to Nov. 25, the international day against violence against women.
Imposing programming: three panel discussions
,
60 hours of training, 9 days, 80 peace builders, journalists, activists, academics from Euro-Mediterranean countries and Afghanistan, Iran, Russia, Ukraine, Sahel, Burma, Tigray, Colombia.
Double the thread: “Women, Peace, Security” and “Infowar.” Unchanged is the mission of the Forum: “Creating bridges and breaking down walls by promoting a reflection on the work of women investigative journalists as a garrison of Democracy and peace.”
In this edition, reflection will focus on. “Bodies, ecosystems, communities: dismembered by conflicts, stitched back together by women,” shining a spotlight on the peacebuilding practices enacted by women, on territories devastated by wars.
The University of Bari (with the Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, Master’s degree in Journalism and Balab, Center for Innovation and Creativity), which has shared the project’s value thrust since the first edition, is hosting the second session, making it part of the doctoral program in “Human Relations Sciences” and recognizing university credits for students.
The forum is funded by the Ministry dhe Italian Foreign Affairs and, for the Bari section, by Corecom Puglia.
It is organized by. Pangea Foundation and the Mediterranean Women Journalists Association, in collaboration with Corecom Puglia, the University of Bari, the journalists’ cooperative IdeaDinamica, Giulia Giornaliste.
The meetings will be broadcast online on the Facebook pages of the Forum of Mediterranean Women Journalists, Fondazione Pangea onlus, University of Bari Master’s in Journalism, Giulia giornaliste, Idea Dinamica scarl.
The appointments scheduled in Bari will have the recognition of the credits for journalists: consult the platform:
https://www.formazionegiornalisti.it/
The Forum this year also enters the “Google news Lab”: Google’s project intended for journalists to use tools dedicated to investigative journalism.
Some panels, in fact, will be devoted to both learning about such innovative modes of investigation and safety practices for sheltering oneself from the risks of the Web (including hate speech that women in particular are subjected to).
This impressive networking work, and all that emerged in the outreach and training events, will be the basis for developing three
position papers
on the DPS-WPS Agenda with respect to the issues proposed by the Women Peace and Security Forum, namely ideological, social, political, religious, and environmental conflicts in three crisis areas-Afghanistan, Ukraine, and Sahel. I
position papers
will then be disseminated and posted on the project and partner websites.
In the first session of the Forum, held in Rome Nov. 9-12, female activists, peace builders, and journalists from Afghanista, Ukraine, and the Sahel drew up three documents that will be discussed in Bari.
“This year’s forum is set against an international political backdrop increasingly torn by wars.
War is, as always, the tool for the redefinition of power. Therefore, when they speak arms, women are often erased and reduced to a condition of subalternity and mere victims.
Instead, it is crucial to recognize their role in peace processes, in rebuilding the social and human fabric, and in conflict resolution. A role that is often silenced or overlooked because wars historically are told in a masculine way. With this initiative we bring together women peace workers, researchers, humanitarian workers, academics, journalists and human rights activists from conflict-torn places such as Afghanistan, Ukraine or the Sahel. We want to claim the active and central role of women in peace processes and reiterate that the agenda linked to Security Council Resolution 1325 and those following on Women, Peace and Security recognize them not only as victims but also as peacemakers of political processes.
It is crucial to grasp this when talking about conflicts because although the actors and countries change, the substance does not: in Ukraine as in Afghanistan or the Sahel the economic and social cost of wars falls on women. On their bodies, emotions, intelligence. Wars make them poor and invisible, because they make invisible any actor other than governments, armies and men. That is why it is necessary to get women from all over the world to speak out, because their contribution is crucial to the defense of human rights and to unhinging those gender inequalities that war wants to reinforce.
The women we invited claim an active role in peace processes, mediation and conflict resolution. Together we say enough of wars it is time to start a different story. Peace is built with Peace.”
Simona Lanzoni,
vice president of Fondazione pangea Onlus
“We are witnessing often ‘pornographic’ war reporting: the complacent dwelling on details, the disregard for victims’ privacy, the denial of the voices of those who oppose the war, those who dissent, and those who reconstruct. With this year’s Forum, we are focusing attention on the peace-building action carried out by women, who weave relationships and put peace into practice not in the sense of a truce, but as a preventive action and preventive counteraction to war. Therefore, this year the Forum is again committed to giving voice to women journalists who every day, by reporting and delving into the facts, even risking their own lives, become
human rights defenders
, human rights defender.
At a time when freedom of the press and expression, in our country, is in the crosshairs, we will continue to amplify women’s voices, weaving an ever-widening and dense network among female journalists, activists, academics, experts in gender studies, cooperators, turning our gaze toward women from critical realities.
Our compass will be the declaration of women’s rights that resulted from the World Conference of Women in Beijing and UN Resolution 1325 and the deep conviction that freedom of the press and expression, along with knowledge, are inviolable human rights.”
Marilù Mastrogiovanni, journalist, founder Forum of Mediterranean women journalists
The Forum, already present on the tables of Unesco, UN, Osce, Anna Lindh foundation, is supported, in the session taking place in Bari, by Corecom Puglia
It has the patronage of the University of Bari, the National Federation of the Italian Press, Assostampa, the Order of Journalists of Puglia, and Ossigeno per l’Informazione.
Adhering to the Forum of Mediterranean Women Journalists network are: the National Order of Journalists, FNSI-National Federation of the Italian Press, Amnesty international, Reporters without borders, Ossigeno per l’Informazione, Order of Journalists Puglia, Assostampa, S/Murare il Mediterraneo Research Center (Uniba), Master in Journalism (Uniba), For.Psi.Com Department (Uniba), Gender Archives (Uniba), Balab-One stop shop (Uniba), Innovation & cretivity center (Uniba), Pangea- Reama Foundation, Renata Fonte Anti-Violence Center, University of Malta, The Shift news (Malta), Association of European Journalists-Bulgaria, Collegi de periodistes de Catalunya, Czech Center for Investigative Journalism-Prague, Associacio Mon Comunicacio-Barcelona, Creis-European Research Center for Sustainable Innovation, Uzbek-German Forum for human rights-Berlin, Radio Radicale,
UNHCR-United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; Presidency of the Chamber of Deputies (President Laura Boldrini); Accademia della Crusca; National Association “Article 21” and University of Salento.
The Forum has joined the Europe4Future network.
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