| July 7th - The Forgotten Youth of Bosnia: Building Trust and Hope a Decade
On |
"Funding for our youth project is increasingly
difficult in Bosnia. More and more money is going to other countries
in the region", said Nina, one project leader from a Mostar-based
NGO called Mladi Most (meaning 'New Bridge'). It is disturbing
to think that people's traumas can be 'fashionable'. Even more
disturbing is that when their cause becomes 'last season' their
trauma almost certainly has not. - MORE |
 |
| July 8th - The
Media as a Tool for Activism / Andreas Zumach, Tom Hyland and
Didi Remez |
The question on most activists' lips is how
do we get more attention? How do we get our message out? The
answer is almost invariably the media but the media is a tool
which activists need training to use. It was exactly such a
training session which took place on Peace Boat in the Mediterranean
with three high profile journalists and activists leading the
session with six key representatives of the NGO sector from
conflict regions such as the Balkans and Israel/Palestine. -
MORE |
|
| ADVOCATE! Effect Change in Our World / Tom Hyland |
Speak up, get informed, organise, actively
promote, represent, and make a difference. it sounds pretty
simply doesn't it. But the enormity of mounting a campaign overwhelms
many people who really do want change. This is the unseen mountain
that stops most of us in our tracks. However, Tom Hyland, the
director of the East Timor Ireland Solidarity Campaign, has
been over that mountain and kindly offered to come back and
show an interested group of potential campaigners on Peace Boat
paths which can be taken to mount an advocacy campaign. - MORE |
