Mois : mars 2006

He says: « The image by itself is no longer sensational—thanks to modern technology almost anybody can take pictures. But only few are able to sift through the overload of information and disinformation and explain to viewers what it is they actually see. The art is to create a bigger picture for the audience. »

He is responsable of the studio in Teheran for the 2nd german TV channel ZDF.

Ulrich Tilgner – Germany

He says during Monday Meeting in June 2004: On both sides of the conflict, the media formed an integral part of military strategy. For their part, the Iraqis attempted to exaggerate their own strength, aiming to undermine the enemy’s confidence in his own strategy while bolstering the fighting morale of their own side. Conversely, the aim of the Americans was to strike fear into the hearts of the Iraqis by demonstrating US strength and resolve, calculating that nobody is prepared to die pointlessly. On the face of it, the course and outcome of the conflict appear to vindicate the American strategy; but, according to Tilger, the limits of military logic in the absence of a post-conflict plan are also readily evident here.

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Linked with our presentation of Tom Plate’s esterday’s article in Khaleej Times Online (a daily of the United Arab Emirates).

Also linked with our presentation on Two women and two symbols of great defiance.

Prof. Tom Plate is:

a member of the Pacific Council of International Policy, the Century Association of New York and the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He is a graduate of Amherst College and Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, with a master’s degree in public and international affairs. He is the author of five books and has been a journalist at Time, Newsday, New York Magazine and “CBS Family Week.”

Tom Plate – USA

From 1989-1995 he was Editor of the Editorial Pages of the Los Angeles Times. He has won numerous journalism awards, including the American Society of Newspaper Editors Deadline Writing Award and the Greater Los Angeles Press Club Award for “Best Editorial.” Recently, he was a Media Fellow at Stanford University and a fellow in Tokyo at the famed Foreign Press Center’s annual Asia-Pacific Media Conference. He is listed in Who’s Who in America and for the last several years has been a participant at the annual retreat of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. (Read more on Voices and Viewpoints).

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Linked to our presentations of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous peoples, one and two.

Rodolfo Stavenhagen is special rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous Peoples. Rodolfo Stavenhagen, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people. He highlighted development projects that had impinged on indigenous rights, forcing indigenous people to move elsewhere, struggling for their cultural and economic survival. Noting that such projects had negatively affected the long-term health of indigenous peoples, and even led to violence, he added that solutions must be found for those and other issues. (See more on Dialogue between Nations).

Rodolfo Stavenhagen – Mexico

Prof. Stavenhagen was at the forefront in advancing an awareness of problems revolving around human rights, an issue about which we now hear a great deal. In fact, he was the founder and first president of the Mexican Academy of Human Rights. He served on the board of the National Commission of Human Rights and has served as a consultant to the United Nations, UNICEF, and the Inter- American Commission on Human Rights. (Read more on duke.edu).

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