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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