It will be within the framework of the Guest speakers, experts on the issue being addressed and in the geographical area itself, such as Jesús A. Núñez, co-director of the Institute for Conflict Studies and Humanitarian Action (IECAH) as well as journalists Teresa Aranguren and Roberto Montoya, among others.
Furthermore, in the context of this meeting, prominent researchers and professors from the Complutense University of Madrid and the University of Valencia will also participate, who, in turn, collaborate in this Seminar with the interest of enriching the various debates and approaches that the matter in question could arise.
The primary objective of this Seminar is to focus the debate and reflection on the historical context of the conflict and the narratives that have defined it in order to achieve its understanding and scope from a critical and reflective approach that, otherwise, allows face the knowledge of the reality and/or situation that is currently going through from expert positions as relevant that will allow a discussion and reflection, both broad and deep, prioritized by the perspective and knowledge of those who are aware of its scope and special difficulty in its understanding and proper interpretation. Well, in this way, it is planned to facilitate these tools.
Information treatment and the role of the media in the current situation of the conflict
Likewise, this framework for dialogue and debate aims to discuss and clarify how the respective informative treatments that the Spanish media have been providing have been carried out with respect to pointing out and clarifying the particular approaches that they manage and offer to the conflict both from a point of view historical as well as in the current war context where it reaches its highest point.
However, and this seminar also wants to be a space for possible solutions and interpretations in order to establish peaceful contributions in its resolution, an activity will be addressed, exclusively proposed for students of the Master's Degree in International Journalism of the URJC, in which they address contributions practices from the perspective of peace journalism.
Seminar Agenda
The seminar will be addressed in two days. The first will take place on December 5, 2023, at the Quintana headquarters, in the Assembly Hall, which will hold two consecutive sessions, the first at 10:00 a.m., under the theme “The Palestinian-Israeli conflict: history, narratives and current reality” whose debate will be moderated by the professor of the Master in International Journalism at the URJC, Amal Abu-Warda Pérez, and in which the colonel and analyst of the Spanish Institute for Strategic Studies (IEEE), José Ignacio Castro, will participate. Torres and the co-director of the Institute for Studies on Conflicts and Humanitarian Action (IECAH), Jesús A. Núñez.
Meanwhile, the second session, also on the same day, scheduled at 12:15 p.m., will focus on “The Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the Spanish media” which, on this occasion, will feature the participation of prominent and recognized experts like Lola Bañón, professor of Journalism at the University of Valencia; Teresa Aranguren, journalist and writer; and Roberto Montoya, journalist and writer.
Workshop on Communications and international relations. Practical contributions from journalism for peace: the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Finally, as a final touch to this seminar, the third session that makes up this same seminar will develop a very original and creative activity consisting of a Workshop in which the students of the Master in International Journalism, in work groups, and through the development of Active learning methodologies such as project-based learning (AbP), cooperative learning (ApC) and service learning (ApS) must propose, through the creation of collages - having absolute thematic, compositional as well as creative freedom - what their visions are. and particular perspectives on the reality and current situation of the conflict, thus building, therefore, its own narrative that must be evident in a graphic and visual way and then, in it, also propose solution measures from the practical application of journalism for the peace capable of thus integrating a peaceful resolution based on a firm ethical commitment to the action of informing and promoting full respect for human rights.
Thus, creating a small exhibition sample, the students will exchange their experiences and proposals through the respective collages and/or works presented, which will therefore be able to enrich the different points of view that the activity could offer in each of the results that the Workshop produces.
Organizing committee and scientific committee.
As for the organizing committee, it is made up of Sonia Valle de Frutos, director of the Master's Degree in International Journalism and the PROMAPICULTURINTERNATIONAL Research Group of the URJC; Ana María Zaharía, acting director of said Master; Amal Abu-Warda Pérez and Ramiro Díaz-Maroto Oro, both professors on the teaching staff of said graduate program.
Meanwhile, the scientific committee, in addition to the members mentioned above, is completed and integrated by the following members: Vicente Garrido Rebolledo, vice dean of Research and International Relations of the Faculty of Legal Sciences of the URJC and co-director of the Research Group that promotes and organizes this same meeting; Rafael Calduch Cervera, professor of International Relations at the Complutense University of Madrid; Najib Abu-Warda, senior professor of International Relations, also from the UCM; Jesús A. Nuñez, co-director of the Institute for Conflict Studies and Humanitarian Action (IECAH); Juan Menor, professor of the Master in International Journalism at the URJC; Lola Bañón, professor and researcher at the University of Valencia (UV) and Lucía mantecón, professor at the URJC.
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