Communicating Reconciliation in Today's World
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Communicating Reconciliation in Today's World. Education for peace: The UN and new ideas for the ‘information age.’ ; Seeing (beyond) the frame ; Beijing Declaration on the Rights of People with Disabilities in the New Century ; A ‘Cruel Radiance’: Reconciliation in Mike Leigh’s Secrets and Lies ; Communicating reconciliation: The churches’ responsibilities in an increasingly secular society ; Sanctions: the children of Iraq are still dying ; Giving back the bike: Reconciliation’s promise ; A cultural foundation for communicating reconciliation in Africa ; Hablar de comunicación en tiempos de confrontación en el Perú ; Theological understandings of reconciliation ; Screening ambiguity: From conflict to the common good ; De l’influence de la télévision : Un point de vue africain ; Okinawa Charter on Global Information Society;
James M. Wall
In those countries where cinema has become firmly established, films are an integral part of the contemporary public’s imagination. How do they contribute to people’s perceptions of how to communicate antagonisms or, indeed, how to reconcile situations of conflict? The following article examines the artistic visions of film-makers who know how to communicate and who want to share that understanding with audiences who live in the midst of ambiguity.
Raoul Germain Blé
Qu’est-ce que «la mondialisation»? Selon l’auteur de l’article qui suit, c’est l’aliénation qui accompagne tout phénomène de culture de masse en Afrique. Dans ce sens, c’est «la victoire de l’occident sur les autres peuples». Pour y répondre de façon adéquate, et pour ne plus sombrer dans la fosse de la dépendance culturelle, les pays africains doivent donner la priorité à former des spécialistes dans chaque domaine de la communication.
Leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the USA - collectively known as the G8 - met in Okinawa, Japan, 21-23 July 2000. The official agenda focused on prosperity, peace of mind, and stability. Hosting the event, the Japanese government insisted on reaching beyond the G8 nations to developing and other countries, NGOs, the private sector and civil society. The G8 certainly paid more attention than usual to the potential role of NGOs and civil society in conflict prevention, fighting infectious diseases, humanitarian emergency assistance and tackling the problem of children in armed conflicts. But progress was meagre on other major issues such as debt relief and environmental protection.
However, the G8 formally recognised that information and communications technology (IT) ‘empowers, benefits and links people the world over, allows global citizens to express themselves, know and respect one another’ (G8 Communiqué Okinawa 2000). The G8 committed itself to pursuing the aims and ambitions set out in the following charter and to set up a Digital Opportunities Task Force to report to its next meeting in 2001, in Genoa, Italy.
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