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Monday, April 2, 2018

3 Day Training on Media Capacity on Peace Journalism and Sensitive Reporting

By PHILIP JAMES M TREMEDAL


Suarez, Iligan City (April 2, 2018) – Broadcasters, Correspondence, and free Lance Journalist in Northern an Western Mindanao attended a Three-Day Media Capacity Training on Peace Journalism and becoming sensitive reporter on what really the Mindanao Issues are.

The training started Monday to Wednesday (April 2-4) opened by the Civil Society Organization Forum on Peace Chair and Women’s advocate Jane Bernardo made emphasis on what is peace Journalism and how media can help achieved the elusive peace in Mindanao.

Introduce oneself thru what they have experienced in their chosen media practise, participants opt to tell stories of what really Mindanao is as their home and their birth place. The situation in Mindanao, the conflicts amidst armed groups craving for self-determination, the Moro Problem for decades of centuries to include the 330 years of Spanish Conquest, the American Regime and Japanese Imperialism, and what will be the future of Mindanao.

Peace Journalism if practiced by heart and mind, this will certainly a choice of every media endeavor to help in the solution in eradicating every biases and prejudices against the other tribe in Mindanao and that includes our brother and sister Moro, the Subanens, the Tedurays, the Manobos, and other Lumad in Mindanao.

Peace Journalism as Dr. Mark Torres of the Iligan Institute of Peace and Development and the teachings of Professor Rody “Buhay” Rodil, Historian and former member of the Peace Panel during the Arroyo Administration says that by heart Mindanaoan should understand his only Mindanao.

“Kalinaw Mindanao” is the call of today’s peace efforts. Lumad, Moro, Kristyano… Magkaiba, magkaisa isang Diyos… Isang Lupain… Isang Adhikain… Kalinaw Mindanao” should be put into each and every Mindanao heart and Mind eradicating every biases and prejudices.

With the help and support of the German Development Cooperation (GIZ), Civil Society Organization Forum for Peace and the Mangagawang Media ng Mindanao, Media capacity Training on Peace Journalism and Sensitive Reporting hope to be the beginning of an everlasting responsible reporting of what Mindanao should be for the next generation full of Understanding and Love for Mindanaoans.



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