This handbook was conceived
during the planning for the UNESCO-Nepal Press Institute first Roundtable
on The Gender Perspective in Conflict Reporting, conducted April 7-9, 2004
in Kathmandu, Nepal. It is made by journalists, for journalists - especially
those who recently entered the profession, and those who have experienced
it enough to seek change.
The book examines the
influence of gender and conflict on professional journalism, and vice versa.
It provides a compilation of emerging ideas, strategies and professional
skills that journalists can wield against the entrenched traditions and
new threats which constrain free expression and the achievement of gender
equality and conflict resolution.
Part 1 explores the 21st
Century media environment and key issues; Part Two presents strategies
and skills
for working journalists;
Part Three provides selected Resources.