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Changing the narrative for peace via media
24 September 2016, Darlington
A conference to explore three themes:
- the need to change the narrative and thinking around what we mean by security, peace and conflict.
- the role and opportunities for independent voices and forms of media.
- how campaigning and awareness-raising can most effectively be taken forward using existing, new and alternative media.
There will be workshops on these and related themes, giving space for exploring practicalities and possibilities and to network with others.
The conference is free and open to all those interested in exploring and taking action on these issues. It will take place at the Quaker Meeting House on Skinnergate in the centre of Darlington, approximately 12 minutes walk from the train station. Lunch provided – no charge but donations welcome.
Speakers will include:
- Michael Gray – journalist from CommonSpace (a digital news and views service and a place to network, share ideas and discuss the issues affecting Scotland)
- Andrew Smith – Media Coordinator from Campaign Against Arms Trade
- David Gee – Ammerdown group on rethinking security
'If the only tool you have is a hammer than every problem looks like a nail' – a quotation sometimes used when the possibility of going to war is in the air. It alludes to a wider issue of how we view security and how news sources and other other media outlets frame the discussion.
It is now widely recognised that underlying drivers or causes of insecurity range from economic inequality, to climate change and arms exports and other forms of militarisation. And yet there is a narrative and approach to international conflict that is too often framed as a violent situation that needs a violent response.
How can we, Quakers and others concerned for peace, support and promote a broader concept of security, one that takes a longer term view and recognises the factors that create the conditions of peace? What role does the media have to play?
Our conference in Darlington on 24 September will be an opportunity to engage on these issues, with speakers from the worlds of journalism, campaigning and research and participants from – we hope – a range of backgrounds.
Northern Friends Peace Board, work for peace with and for Quakers in the North of Britain. Please register by:
Phone: 01204 382330,
Email: nfpb@gn.apc.org
Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/1784481555131362/
More information
For more information contact:
Philip Austin
Telephone: 01204382330